Upcoming Event: Lets Face the Music and Dance
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Prominent historian, Dr. Edward Shapiro, whose expertise is in American Studies, will present a program about World War II era American Jewish composers whose songs still top the charts of the Great American Songbook. It promises to be a “toe-tapping” afternoon as Dr. Shapiro will play popular songs such as “Over the Rainbow”, “Accentuate the Positive”, and “The House I Live in “ and puts the songs in context with our nation’s efforts to win the war.
Date: September 28
Time: 2-4 p.m.
Location: The Aidekman Jewish Community Campus
901 Route 10, Whippany
RSVP will be appreciated. Contact Irene Segal 973-929-2703 or email isegal@jhsmw.org Free admission and light refreshments.
Date: September 28
Time: 2-4 p.m.
Location: The Aidekman Jewish Community Campus
901 Route 10, Whippany
RSVP will be appreciated. Contact Irene Segal 973-929-2703 or email isegal@jhsmw.org Free admission and light refreshments.
Meet Me Under Bamberger's Clock
Please join us for the anticipated exhibit about Louis Bamberger and his contributions to the local and international community
Events you may have missed
On March 14, 2016 our Executive Director/JHS Curator Linda Forgosh spoke of the historic Weequahic Neighborhood to an impressive crowd at the NJPAC. To purchase a copy of the presentation please contact Linda Forgosh at 973-929-2994 or email Linda at: lforgosh@jfedgmw.org
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Please read Robert Wiener's article about the Weequahic event (click below)
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Spotlight on Research at JHS
Photo courtesy of Fred Rosenberg
The heart of any archive is its collections. This is where researchers go to find primary resources to be used to document a specific area of interest. The JHSNJ has approximately 650 institutional and private collections that attract researchers interested in Jewish life in Greater MetroWest New Jersey. In this instance we are focusing on a return researcher who has been doing wonderful work documenting the history of Newark’s Jewish cemeteries. Her name is Barbara Krasner.
Krasner wrote a paper for her historic preservation class at William Paterson University. Her topic was the physical condition of Newark’s Grove St. Cemetery located between Grove Street and 20th Street on the border of Newark’s Vailsburg section. She writes : that more than 10,000 people are interred there. Her paper titled No Stone Unturned: Newark’s Grove Street Cemetery reveals details about how and when it was founded, who's buried there, the findings of a Federation task force administered by the CRC or Community Relations Committee, regarding the condition of the cemetery, and her suggestions for resolving some of the long standing problems of how to preserve the existing gravesites and tombstones.
Her work is just that significant that the JHS took the liberty to forward a copy of Ms. Krasner’s paper to Federation’s Executive Vice President, Dov Ben-Shimon.
You can read Krasner’s paper here.
Krasner wrote a paper for her historic preservation class at William Paterson University. Her topic was the physical condition of Newark’s Grove St. Cemetery located between Grove Street and 20th Street on the border of Newark’s Vailsburg section. She writes : that more than 10,000 people are interred there. Her paper titled No Stone Unturned: Newark’s Grove Street Cemetery reveals details about how and when it was founded, who's buried there, the findings of a Federation task force administered by the CRC or Community Relations Committee, regarding the condition of the cemetery, and her suggestions for resolving some of the long standing problems of how to preserve the existing gravesites and tombstones.
Her work is just that significant that the JHS took the liberty to forward a copy of Ms. Krasner’s paper to Federation’s Executive Vice President, Dov Ben-Shimon.
You can read Krasner’s paper here.
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The Architects of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey
JHS of NJ Founding Members (L to R): Jerome Fien, Ruth Fien and Saul Schwarz
Current and Former Board Presidents (L to R): Howard Kiesel, Robert G. Rose, Robert R. Max, Warren Grover and Dr. Jerome Horowitz (ז״ל)
Take a tour
The Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey is located at the Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus in Whippany, New Jersey. The areas covered by the Society are Morris, Essex, Sussex, Union and portions of Somerset Counties of New Jersey. Our address is: 901 Route 10 East Whippany, NJ 07981 Please see the "Plan a Visit" page for directions 
Help From Washington Gives History Society A Digital Boost Catalog records for JHSNJ collections will be gradually added to the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) via the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) program at the Library of Congress. |
Searching for Central NJ History
JFS Central NJ Food Pantry Volunteers, 1997
(L to R, front row) Rhoda Staub, Elaine Ratner, Clara Kramer, Jackie Gershman
(Rear) Ruth Bilenker, Bob Lowenstein, Murray Staub, Joe Fox, Roz Schwartzberg, Mortimer Gershman, Joyce Weinsten
The Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey has expanded its mission to find and preserve the history of Jewish life in towns in central New Jersey with emphasis on Union and Somerset counties. This will include visits to Jewish institutions, social service agencies, synagogues, and the YM-YWHA located in Union. Private collections are also welcome.
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The Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey is a beneficiary agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ
The Jewish Historical Society is a recipient of a general operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.
The Jewish Historical Society operates in accordance with ADA standards
The Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey is a beneficiary agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ
The Jewish Historical Society is a recipient of a general operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.
The Jewish Historical Society operates in accordance with ADA standards
