Today we’re using our Voter Education blog to dive back into history and to talk about the Jew Bill in Maryland. This bill was a big turning point for Jewish communities in Maryland and Baltimore and changed the trajectory of …
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A blog post by Deputy Director Tracie Guy-Decker. Read more posts from Tracie by clicking HERE. This beautiful show is arranged not chronologically, but by color, as the title might suggest. It features parts of MdHS’s textile collection that were lost …
Breaking Barriers in History This post was written by JMM School Program Coordinator Paige Woodhouse. To read more posts from Paige, click here! What is a barrier? Barriers can be physical – a material that blocks or inhibits movement. Barriers can …
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An American in Palestine
Mendes I. Cohen Tours the Holy Land Part I: World Traveler Written by Dr. Deb Weiner. Originally published in Generations 2007-2008: Maryland and Israel. “Very few of the Jews in Jerusalem have shoes,” Mendes I. Cohen remarked in an 1832 letter …
This month’s edition of JMM Insights is written by JMM Executive Director Marvin Pinkert. You can read more posts by Marvin here. I bring this document to your attention not only because it will soon turn 200 years old, but also …
1657: Maryland’s first known Jewish colonists appear in the historical record: David Ferera, a trader with links to Amsterdam Jewish merchants, and Jacob Lumbrozo, a Portuguese physician who had been part of the crypto-Jewish community of London. 1658: Lumbrozo becomes …
A blog post by Education Director Ilene Dackman-Alon. To read more posts by Ilene click HERE. Over the holiday weekend, my husband and I went “Biking Beyond Borders,” meaning we biked outside of the state, north of the Maryland Dixon-Mason Line. …
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The Test
A blog post by Executive Director Marvin Pinkert. To read more posts from Marvin click HERE. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United …
A blog post by Assistant Director Deborah Cardin. To read more posts by Deborah, click here. To read more posts about Mendes Cohen, click here. Among the defenders at Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in 1814 were several Jewish militiamen, …