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This is happening people! I am so excited I don’t even know what to write here. This has been a long waited event and I am so excited I just can’t hide it! Apologies for the lack of content, but I wanted to share this image as soon as possible.
If you are not aware of what I am attempting to discuss here, today is the release of the records of the JFK assassination. Historians, conspiracy theorists and everyone else unite! I will be on the National Archives site today and hopefully will be able to share some information here as I get it.
If you are interested, please visit their website at:https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk
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Late August: the daylight hours are waning but the garden is still toodling along and I’ve been swamped with a zillion projects. It has taken me nearly the entire month, but I’ve finally compiled my August list of fun and interesting links – I hope you enjoy them! At this school in Gatineau, Quebec, a boulevard of dead ash trees were transformed into art, thanks to some very talented wood…
Late August: the daylight hours are waning but the garden is still toodling along and I’ve been swamped with a zillion projects. It has taken me nearly the entire month, but I’ve finally compiled my August list of fun and interesting links – I hope you enjoy them!
Atthis school in Gatineau, Quebec, a boulevard of dead ash trees were transformed into art, thanks to some very talented wood…
#FridayFeature of new accessions to the JMM collections: Documents related to the construction of a new house at 3900 Glen Avenue in Baltimore City, dated 8/12/1947, from the general contractor Industrial Service Engineers to Leonard Fruman.
Gift of Arnold and Joyce Fruman, JMM 2020.21.1.
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#ThrowbackThursday from the JMM Collections: Letters Patent for “Blouse-Bottom Cuffs” awarded to Edward Morris on April 29, 1924. Morris and Co. Records, JMM 2015.12.11.
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#ThrowbackThursday from the JMM Collections: “Declaration of Alien About to Depart for United States,” issued to Itzhak Brotman, April 22, 1922. JMM 1991.170.4. #TBT
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#FridayFeature of new accessions to the JMM collections: Hardbound book, “Order of Prayer - House of Mourning,” with stamp from Sylvan S. Lewis & Son Memorial Chapel, “organized by Samuel T. Scherr” with acknowledgements to several local rabbis including Rabbi Rosenblatt of Beth Tfiloh, c. 1950s.
Gift of Bernice Millman, JMM 2020.4.3.
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ThrowbackThursday from the JMM Collections: Senator Herbert Lehman on his 80th birthday being presented a menorah by Dr. William Haber, President of American ORT, April 8, 1958.
The menorah was made by students of the ORT School at Strasbourg, France and bears the inscription “A Light Unto the People”. Harry Greenstein Collection, JMM 1971.20.273. #TBT
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Partially identified thanks to Jewish Times reader Selma W!
The second gentleman from the left is Robert Cohen, a local artist. Do you know the names of the others in this photo by Jerry Fine of a senior sculpting class at the JCC, 1968?
JMM 1996.63.94
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#DYK April 7 is World Health Day?
This photograph shows a doctor examining a patient at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center And Hospital in 1970. JMM 1997.134.554.
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#FridayFeature of new accessions to the JMM collections: Letter of appreciation from the Equitable Trust Company, Baltimore, to Leonard Fruman, National Lumber Company, 1962.
The letter thanks Fruman for pointing out the bank’s failure to debit a check from the NLC account, and praises his “honesty, integrity, and cooperative spirit.”
Gift of National Lumber Company, JMM 2020.34.1.
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Once Upon a Time…06.19.2020
The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Joanna Church by email at [email protected].
Date run in Baltimore Jewish Times: June 19, 2020
PastPerfect Accession #: 1996.063.089
Status: Unidentified – do you know the names of any of these swimmers? Photo taken during a swimming class at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association swimming pool, 1951.
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#DYK during the festival of Pesach (Passover), many Jews refrain from eating many foods they eat year round? To avoid eating levened grain products, people must cook entirely different foods than they usually might.
This cookbook for Pesach was published by Manischewitz, which makes many Pesach products including matzah, a flat cracker-like bread which is Kosher for Pesach. JMM 1988.007.001
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#DYK from prehistoric times until the 20th century the Nile flooded on an extremely predictable schedule? All of Egyptian history until the most recent of times was based on the bounty and predictability of the Nile.
The story Jews celebrate during Pesach includes an episode in which God causes the Nile to turn to blood. Imagine the horror of the Egyptians when something defined by its predictibility suddenly changed.
From the JMM Collections: Postcard with the printed label of “Flood Time near the Pyramids” in Egypt, Lenhert & Landrock, 1929. Friedenwald Family Collection, JMM 1984.023.1066.
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