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Free public program on Friday, May 3 from 10:00 AM-3:30 PM:
"Jewish Geography in America: Who Went Where When and Why."
Featuring a keynote address by Dr. Jonathan Sarna, Geospatial presentation by Matthew Knutzen of NYPL's Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, and hands-on classroom opportunities with NYPL librarians and specialists from the Dorot Jewish Division and the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division.
RSVP required: email annmariestarita@nypl.org
Program generously funded by the Dorot Foundation.
For more information, visit: http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/36/node/208030?lref=36%2Fcalendar
We encourage you to plan your visit. Email freidus@nypl.org with your research questions or item information from our Catalog, http://catalog.nypl.org . Please note that portions of our collection may be temporarily unavailable and emailing us in advance will help you make the most of your visit. Request off-site materials quickly and easily with our new electronic form, available only in relevant item records via our Classic Catalog, http://catalog.nypl.org
Request for materials cannot be accepted beginning 40 minutes prior to closing.
New book from The New York Public Library! Get your copy of Jews in America: From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage.
The Dorot Jewish Division is responsible for administering, developing and promoting one of the world’s great collections of Hebraica and Judaica. Reference and research services are available in a dedicated Jewish studies reading room on the first floor of the Library’s landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.
You can contact us with your research questions at freidus@nypl.org. (The Jewish Division's reference email is named after Abraham Solomon Freidus [1867-1923], the first Chief Librarian of the Division).
Hebrew goes Deco for The Divine Woman, Greta Garbo's last silent film. Poster: Tel Aviv, 1929
Dorot Jewish Division, NYPL
Primary source materials are especially rich in the following areas: Jews in the United States, especially in New York in the age of immigration; Yiddish theater; Jews in the land of Israel, through 1948; Jews in early modern Europe, especially Jewish-Gentile relations; Christian Hebraism; antisemitism; and world Jewish newspapers and periodicals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
