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What's New at The Society? 


Special Events - Lasting Impressions Annual Gala
2014 - Jim Shrager

2016 - Bob Cowen
2018 - Thelma Florin
2015 -Howard Kiesel

2017 - Hal Braff
2020 - Honors JHS and Bob Max

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                         Major collections

The following is a partial list of collections that are in our archives: Click here to visit our archives page!

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (1901-present) includes the private collection of  Dr. Victor Parsonnet

Daughters of Israel Home for the Jewish Aged (1906- present)

I.K.U.V. Israel Kranken Untersteutzung Verein (Israel Sick Benefits Society) (1885- 1989 )

 
Mutual benefit societies provided burial plots to first generation Jewish immigrants

 YM-YWHA/JCC Collection (1877-present) including a photo of the "Y" baseball team in 1903

Federation records, including Jewish Community Council of Essex County, merger of Essex, Morris, and Sussex counties in 1983, and the merger of United Jewish Communities of  MetroWest with the Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey in 2012 (1923-present) 

Congregation Oheb Shalom (1860-present) includes papers of Rabbi Isaac Schwarz
 

Oheb Shalom located at 32-34 Prince Street in Newark. The building is still standing.

Sermons of Temple B’nai Jeshurun’s Rabbi Ely Pilchik including correspondence with Albert Einstein

Synagogue newsletters from Congregation Young Israel located on Weequahic Avenue in Newark

 Louis Bamberger Collection (1892-1944) as donated by JHSNJ executive director Linda Forgosh
 
L. Bamberger & Co. "One of America's great stores"

Photograph collections from and bound editions of the Jewish News (1946-present)

Papers of JHSNJ founder Saul Schwarz (1990-2002)

Pine Brook Jewish Center (1903-present)

 
Rare copy of the history of Pine Brook's early settlers.

Morristown Jewish Center Beit Yisrael (1899-present) including silver ceremonial trowel used to place cornerstone of synagogue in 1929
 




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  • Home
  • Videos from the library of the JHS
  • New Jersey Jewish News/Jewish Horizon
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
  • Jackie Levine: In Her Own Words
  • In Memory of Robert R. Max
  • Covid-19 Project
  • Speakers Bureau
  • About Us
  • Howard Kiesel Memorial Archives
    • Archive Policies and Procedures
    • Finding Aids and Container Lists
      • Community Organizations
      • Federation
      • Federation Agencies
      • Personal Papers
      • Essex County Synagogues
      • Morris-Sussex County Synagogues
      • Union County Synagogues
      • Schools
    • Search the Catalogue
    • Synagogues of New Jersey
  • Calendar
  • Newsletters/What's New?
    • Events - JHS Annual Gala, 2018
    • Events - JHS Annual Gala, 2017
    • Events - JHS Annual Gala, 2016
    • Events - JHS Annual Gala, 2015
    • Events - JHS Annual Gala, 2014
    • Newsletters
  • Exhibitions
    • Weequahic Memoirs - Slideshow
    • Elvings Theater - Slideshow
  • Spotlight on Collections
  • Photo Slideshow
    • Schools
    • Synagogues
    • Organizations
    • Women's History
    • YM-YWHA
    • Federation
  • Become a Member
  • Board
  • Plan A Visit
  • Contact Us
  • Store - Publications