The real-life inspiration behind one of Sir Walter Scott's most interesting Ivanhoe characters, Rebecca of York.
- Heartthrobs of AJHS
- Women in Jewish History
In the first of our "Heartthrobs of AJHS" series, we explore the life of Ray Frank, who was a gifted orator, teacher, and journalist in the 19th and 20th centuries, and known as the "girl rabbi from the Golden West."
- Visitors to AJHS
"Black-Jewish relations and the civil rights movement needed a new historiographic perspective, a new generation’s approach and understanding of what actually happened."
- Yearning to Breathe Free - Immigration Stories
AJHS, in collaboration with the Center for Jewish History and the Museum of Chinese in America, will be working on a project to showcase understudied intersections of the Jewish and Chinese immigrant and refugee experience in Manhattan’s Lower East Side and Chinatown neighborhoods.
- Yearning to Breathe Free - Immigration Stories
- From the Collections
After 3 years, the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History have completed the archival processing of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) records.
- Yearning to Breathe Free - Immigration Stories
A brief architectural history of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
- Yearning to Breathe Free - Immigration Stories
The HIAS Scholarship Program, first begun in 1974, awarded immigrants or their children who “were making or preparing to make through study significant contributions to social betterment.”
