Exhibits
Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
(U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
This exhibition covers the 1933 book burnings organized by the German Students Association that targeted such authors as Helen Keller, Ernest Hemingway and Sigmund Freud.
Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom (Library of Congress)
One of America's leading political artists during World War II, Arthur Szyk produced hundreds of anti-Axis propaganda in aid of the Allied war effort. The exhibition features three of his most important original works, along with several others representative of his caricature and illumination.
Collections
Yiddish-Language Play Scripts (Library of Congress)
The Hannah Arendt Papers (Library of Congress)
Yiddish American popular songs, 1895-1950 (Library of Congress)
Historic Newspaper Archive
"Condition of the Jews Today" – New-York Daily Tribune, August 25, 1901
"Future of Judaism of America" – The San Francisco Call, December 10, 1905
"Part Played by the Hebrew in the History of the Nation and State" – The Salt Lake Herald, November 19, 1905
"Some New Books - The Jewish Encyclopedia" – The (New York) Sun, September 28, 1902
Audio/Video
Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community (Library of Congress)
The Jewish Book in America (Library of Congress)
Holy Moses! A Cultural History of the Ten Commandments in Modern America (Library of Congress)
I Will Wake Dawn: Illuminated Psalms (Library of Congress)
Quick to the Party: Southern Jews and the Americanization of Hanukkah (Library of Congress)