Category: jewish museum of maryland

MS 113 Lena Barber Midwife Records

Not long ago I posted the finding aid for MS 180 the Rosa Fineberg midwife records.  Midwife records are a rich resource for genealogists.  Besides the expected birthdates, the books

The Golden Age of Jewish Boxing

A blog post by Dr. Deb Weiner. Lately my head has been in the “interwar era,” as historians refer to the time period between World War I and World War

The Kraus Family Papers: The Photographs

A blog post by Photo Archives Intern Ginevra Shay. Since starting my internship at The Jewish Museum of Maryland I’ve had the pleasure of working on a number of fascinating

MS 37 Rabbi Benjamin Szold Papers

Over the fifty years that the Jewish Museum of Maryland has been in existence we have received a large number of materials related to Benjamin Szold and his descendents, which

MS 198 The Straus-Hecht Family Collection

A large portion of the collections at the Jewish Museum of Maryland document families and organizations centered around the city of Baltimore.  But we do have objects, photos and archives