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Jewish Veterans of World War II
Fighting Nazi Germany took on special significance for one group of U.S. servicemen in the European Theater. Even those Jewish soldiers and sailors who were serving elsewhere in World War II understood that defeating the Axis would be a defeat for blind hatred of any ethnic group or nationality.
Image credit: Milton Stern (first row third from the left) and the original crew. (Library of Congress)
Selected Exhibits and Collections
Blogs & Social Media 2Hide All
Library of Congress 24Hide All
- The Aaron Copland Collection
- The Abraham A. Schwadron “Chad Gadya” Collection (finding aid)
- American Jewish Women: Area Studies Collections
- Annotated Bibliography: The Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays at the Library of Congress (PDF, 1.7Mb)
- Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom
- The Hannah Arendt Papers
- Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
- From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
- Felix Mendelssohn at the Library of Congress
- The Leonard Bernstein Collection
- Prints, Photos and Manuscripts from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (World Digital Library)
- Scrolls from the Dead Sea
- Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress, 1912-2012
- Yiddish American Popular Sheet Music
- Yiddish American popular songs, 1895-1950
- Yiddish-Language Play Scripts
- Jewish Newspapers
-- Topic: The Dreyfuss Affair
-- Topic: The Trial and Lynching of Leo Frank - “Condition of the Jews Today” – New-York Daily Tribune, August 25, 1901
- “Future of Judaism in America” – The San Francisco Call, December 10, 1905
- “Some New Books - The Jewish Encyclopedia” – The (New York) Sun, September 28, 1902
- “Part Played by the Hebrew in the History of the Nation and State” – The Salt Lake Herald, November 19, 1905
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
National Archives 5Hide All
- 100 Milestone Documents - Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948)
- Archival Research Catalog (ARC) Gallery: Recovery of Holocaust-Era Assets
- Creation of the State of Israel, records from the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
- Jewish American Heritage Month on Flickr
- World War II Looted Art: Turning History into Justice (in partnership with Google Cultural Institute)
National Endowment for the Humanities 6Hide All
- Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American (site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Jews in America (site is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities) (http://www.jewsinamerica.org/)
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum (supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Preserving the Iraqi Jewish Archive
- Repositioning Florida's Judaic Library: Increasing Access to Humanities Resources from Florida, Latin America, and the Caribbean (NEH Challenge Grant recipient)
- Voices from the Shtetl: The Yiddish Memories Project