Lubavitch Photographer Mordechai Lubecki visits the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, and documents some of the 3,000 years of accumulated historic records on display.
Lubavitch Photographer Mordechai Lubecki visits the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. The center is a goldmine of data, documents, artwork, films, and recordings from the last 3,000 years of Jewish History.
The Center is a collaborative home for five different Jewish organizations: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
The centers’ archives comprise the world’s largest and most comprehensive archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel. The collections span three thousand years, with more than 5 miles of archival documents (in dozens of languages and alphabet systems), more than 500,000 volumes, as well as thousands of artworks, textiles, ritual objects, recordings, films, and photographs.
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