Visions of Our Future Emerge From Memories of Our Past
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
Eye-Catching Photo
What’s going on? In July 1923, Newarkers gathered at the intersection of Broad and Market Streets to listen to Albert Lewitt announce the round-by-round results of a fight between two boxers, Firpo and Carpentier. Lewitt can be seen standing on the balcony of his Department Drug Store facing the crowd. He got his information from his radio hook up to the broadcast coming from Jersey City where the fight was being held. Radio at this time was a relatively new invention with great potential. Lewitt realized this and so did Louis Bamberger, who, in 1922, started L. Bamberger & Co department store’s in-house radio station WOR.
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. 
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 |
Weequahic Memoirs:
The Slide Program 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.
Community leader Mathilda Brailove and Israel's Prime Minister Golda Meir
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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
