Category: Collections

A Little Chuppah History

A “Just Married!: Extra Curators have to make choices: not everything can make it into an exhibit, and there’s seldom enough space to share every interesting fact about the things

A Closer Look

A blog post by Collections Manager Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE.   Our collections database – which I love, don’t get me wrong – is set

Rabbi Morris Lazaron and the Problem of Quotas

Ellen of Baltimore writes, “Your current exhibition [Beyond Chicken Soup: Jews and Medicine in America] is very interesting and extremely well done. I have a question that I wonder if

Jewish Educational Alliance: The Countryside

Article by Jennifer Vess. Originally published in Generations 2009-2010: 50th Anniversary Double Issue: The Search for Social Justice. Side Bar 3: The Countryside Missed parts 1 – 7? Start from the Beginning.

Jewish Educational Alliance: The Library

Article by Jennifer Vess. Originally published in Generations 2009-2010: 50th Anniversary Double Issue: The Search for Social Justice. Side Bar 2: The Library Missed parts 1 – 6? Start from the Beginning. Progressive-era

Jewish Educational Alliance: The Levy Building

Article by Jennifer Vess. Originally published in Generations 2009-2010: 50th Anniversary Double Issue: The Search for Social Justice. Side Bar 1: The Levy Building Missed parts 1 – 5? Start from the

Whose Wedding?

A blog post by Director of Collections and Exhibits Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. In our Hendler family collection we have two nearly identical photo albums,

A Walk around our Neighborhood

A blog post by Graham Humphrey, Visitor Services Coordinator. To read more posts by Graham click HERE. For those of you who don’t know, our self-guided walking tour takes visitors

Learning Their Names

A blog post by Collections Manager Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. Like many historical societies and museums, we have a large number of photos in

Fancy Conference Badges, 1909-1937

A blog post by Collections Manager Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. Tomorrow is the first day of the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Alliance of