A blog post by Director of Collections and Exhibits Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. Exhibit research can be an opportunity to look more closely at some
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A Research Dive: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Blog post by JMM archivist Lorie Rombro. You can read more posts by Lorie here. A few weeks ago, I received an information request about the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. The person
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
Portrait of Fredericka Herstein; or, an afternoon down the rabbit-hole of historical research
A blog post by Collections Manager Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. Here at the JMM, some of our portrait collection is hung on move-able racks
A False “Rosetta Stone”
Earlier this fall I had the opportunity to speak to the brotherhood of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation about the life of Mendes Cohen and the origins of Jewish Baltimore. In preparation
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
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
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
Two Birth Control Pioneers
A post by historian Dr. Deb Weiner. Over the past few months, I’ve been working on the upcoming edition of Generations magazine, which will soon go to press. The theme