Jacob Kalich (second left) in Mezrach und Maarev, 1921

Please join me in welcoming to the Commons the New York-based Center for Jewish History. The Center is home to five different institutions — the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research — and brings to the Commons a wealth of photographs of events, people, and artifacts from all five.

If you know your Jewish history or have Jewish family, you might be able to help identify people and places in the Center’s images, too. Recognize any of the three boy actors in the Yiddish-theatre photograph above, for example?

Even if you don’t, please drop by and wish the Center brukhim ha-bo’im!

Tags: Center for Jewish History, new to the commons

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