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TitlePhotograph of the members of Congregation Ahavath Achim B'nai Israel, Irvington, NJ.
Date Created1950-1959
DescriptionThis photograph portrays members of Congregation Ahavath Achim B'nai Israel Synagogue in Irvington, NJ. A handwritten caption on the back says, "Remembering 40 years back! Bottom Row: Betty Kesner,...
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Title2 photographs with captions that appeared in the "Morning Journal" article, "Picture from the Hightstown Colony" by A. Litwin
AuthorLitwin, A.
Date Created1936
DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had...
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TitleThe Hidden Child
Date Created2007
DescriptionOf the 1,600,000 Jewish children who lived in Europe before World War II, only 100,000 survived the Holocaust. Most were hidden children, shuttered away in attics, cellars, convents or in villages or...
Target AudienceTV-G (general audience)
Target AudienceGeneral
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitlePoultryman
Date Created1931-1969, 1958
DescriptionThe Poultryman was a newspaper for people in the poultry industry
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TitleLetter to the Editor: "The Communists are grealty responsible for the situation of the Jewish farmers in New Jersey." July 31, 1956.
Date Created1956
DescriptionThis letter, which has been translated from Yiddish, describes the ways in which the author felt that the Communist Party had infiltrated the Jewish farm co-operatives of New Jersey and used them as a...
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TitleLetter from S. Dingal, Associate Editor at 'The Day,' to Mr. Baruch Drazin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hightstown Colony, July 31, 1936
AuthorDingal, S.
Date Created1936
DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had...
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TitleSix years' study of work of Committee of Service for Foreign Born
Date Created1940
DescriptionThe Bureau of Service to the Foreign Born, founded in 1917 and conducted by the Newark Section, National Council of Jewish Women, provided aid to immigrants and aliens, especially information and...
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TitleBride throwing bouquet from balcony
Date Created1950
DescriptionBride throwing bouquet during wedding celebration in the 7th street Plainfield building of Temple Sholom. This balcony was covered up in a later renovation.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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Title'Comments' on James Osborne's 'Italian Immigrants and the Working Class in Paterson' and Gertrude Dubrovsky's 'Rural Experience of Jews in Farmingdale' - from the 8th NJ History Symposium
AuthorGolab, Catherine
Date Created1976
DescriptionThis comments paper by Caroline Golab, an Assistant Professor of History and Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, is from 'New Jersey's Ethnic Heritage: Papers Presented at the Eighth...
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TitleWedding ceremony in old 7th Street, Plainfield chapel of Temple Sholom
Date Created1950
DescriptionWedding ceremony in old chapel in 7th street building
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)