Category: Future

“Originalism” Run Amuck

Blog post by Executive Director Marvin Pinkert This week’s remarks by White House policy advisor Steven Miller seeking to disassociate the Statue of Liberty from the poem by Emma Lazarus

2017 Report to the Community

President’s Message: Making History Perhaps you have seen our new poster commemorating the landmark status of the Lloyd Street Synagogue.  It celebrates the fact that our museum site is a

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

Family Fare Part V

Article by Jennifer Vess. Originally published in Generations 2011 – 2012: Jewish Foodways Part V: Mechanization and Innovation: “He had to get more machines to keep producing.”[1] Miss parts 1-4? Start here.

Family Fare Part IV

Article by Jennifer Vess. Originally published in Generations 2011 – 2012: Jewish Foodways Part IV: The Ma and Pa Shop: “My mother did all the cooking. We did all the rest.”[1] Miss

Family Fare Part III

Article by Jennifer Vess. Originally published in Generations 2011 – 2012: Jewish Foodways Part III: Learning the Trade: “Baking was the only trade he knew.”[1] Miss parts 1-2? Start here. Why choose

Family Fare Part II

Article by Jennifer Vess. Originally published in Generations 2011 – 2012: Jewish Foodways Part II: Immigration: “In the United States they would have an opportunity.”[1] Missed part I? Start here. The streets

Family Fare

Baltimore Jewish Food Businesses Article by Jennifer Vess. Originally published in Generations 2011 – 2012: Jewish Foodways In 1894 Solomon Rodbell, a baker by trade, left Poland with his wife Fannie and

Bedlam with Corned Beef on the Side Part X

Written by Barry Kessler. Originally published in Generations 1993, reprinted in Generations 2011 – 2012: Jewish Foodways. Part X: The Longest Survivor Miss part 1? Start here. Attman’s Delicatessen is the longest