Search

WEBSITE SEARCH

To search our database catalog and museum collection see "Collections." 

Search
Close this search box.

Upcoming Events

March 19, 2024
In Person
Join author Rachel Gordan for an in-person discussion of her new book Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American with moderator Dara Horn. Drawing on several archives, magazine articles, and nearly-forgotten bestsellers, Postwar Stories examines how Jewish middlebrow literature helped to shape post-Holocaust American Jewish identity. For both Jews and non-Jews accustomed to anti-Semitic tropes and […]
March 21, 2024
Virtual Event
Julie Salamon (New York Times best-selling author) sits down with Sally Fischer, Founder and President of Sally Fischer Public Relations based in New York City. She began SFPR in 1990 with a small client base and the idea of creating a very distinct image and strategy for each client, with the idea and feeling of […]
March 27, 2024
In Person
Join AJHS and LBI for a discussion with The Money Kings author Daniel Schulman and  Susie J. Pak author of Gentlemen Bankers. The Money Kings is the incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants—with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman—who profoundly influenced the rise of modern […]
June 4, 2024
In Person
The late Jewish American gay artist Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) changed the face of children’s literature by depicting emotionally isolated, unruly, and ethnically particular protagonists who use fantasy to resist social coercion and self-erasure. In Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (Stanford University Press, 2020), Golan Moskowitz investigates the evolution of Sendak’s artistic vision and its […]
No event found!