The Emma Lazarus Curriculum
The Emma Lazarus Project curriculum provides students with the opportunity to analyze and engage with primary source materials in order to gain a deeper understanding of the United State’s long struggle with nativism, prejudice, and antisemitism.
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Mayses From the Stacks
AJHS's blog features collection highlights, exclusive interviews, hidden histories, recipes, and more!
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Interactive Timeline
Follow 360 years of the Jewish experience in America, from our nation’s founding to the present day, as told through our archival collections.
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Support Your Heritage
Our mission of acquisition, preservation, and dissemination of American Jewish history is made possible by the generosity of people like you.
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2020 Emma Lazarus Poetry Contest Winners
Watch our contest winners read their poems, and read submissions from our finalists!
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Virtual Book Talk
January 28, 2021
7:00 pm
The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: A Conversation between Lila Corwin Berman and Dahlia Lithwick
On View: December 4, 2019 to December 31, 2022
Emma Lazarus, Union Square & American Identity
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Kosher Chinese Christmas- An American Jewish Tradition
It appears that for over a century American Jews have eaten American Chinese food on Christmas.Learn More
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Integrated collections from the five partner institutions at the Center for Jewish History.
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UJA-Federation of NY Collection
Archival material connected with the projects and philanthropic mission of UJA-Federation of NY.
Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement
Details the sacrifices made by countless activists to liberate the Jews of the Soviet Union.
