A blog post by Collections Manager Joanna Church. To read more posts from Joanna click HERE. Thanks to our online database, much of our collections can be investigated from the
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Mendes’ Star Spangled Banner
A blog post by Program Manager Trillion Attwood. There are due to be some amazing objects on display within our upcoming exhibit, The A-Mazing Mendes Cohen, one of which is the
Explore Your Roots: The Robert L. Weinberg Family History Center
A blog post by Deborah Weiner, Family History Coordinator. In a typical week, the Jewish Museum of Maryland receives ten requests for help from individuals looking for information about their
MS 206 The Felix Kestenberg Collection
The Felix Kestenberg (1921-2008) Collection n.d., 1987-2008 MS 206 Jewish Museum of Maryland ACCESS AND PROVENANCE The Felix Kestenberg collection was donated to the Jewish Museum of Maryland by Veronica
A Synagogue’s Move to the Suburbs: The Beginning of the Future
A blog post by Molly Martell, Johns HopkinsUniversity, Class of 2015 This semester I was able to take a course through Johns Hopkins and the Jewish Museum of Maryland called “Staging
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 100 Abramovitz Medical Papers
Our regular blog readers may remember that back in June we posted about Dr. Morris Abramovitz. You can revisit that post here. We thought it would be fitting to present the
MS 196 Israel S. Gomborov Collection
One of the most important skills for archivists-in-training to learn is how to write a finding aid. These documents often look simple and straightforward, but processing a collection and writing
Who Was Sam Eig?
A blog post by Research Historian Deb Weiner. If you do much traveling in and around Montgomery County, you may have driven on Sam Eig Highway. I found myself on