Announcement of interest from the Senior Archivist of UJA-NY Re: Hadassah Historical Materials:
I am pleased to announce the digitization of 50 audio reels and 20 years of newsletters (1914-1933) thanks to a generous Collaborative Digitization Grant from METRO (www.metro.org), the Metropolitan New York Library Council, which administers grants through the New York State library system.
The grant was a collaboration between the Hadassah archives and the Digital Lab at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, where the archives are housed.
The sound recordings can be found here:http://digital.cjh.org/R/FL9L2QGNQI34Y78BEFA9H3VNBE3BGQ9YD8MQJNDQH9D63JSD3T-00573?func=collections-result&collection_id=1853
The sound recordings cover the years 1949 to 1978, produced by Hadassah to document groundbreakings, building dedications and to capture in oral histories not only the remembered detail of events the Hadassah women lived through, but the voices that describe those events. Some of you may remember a short paper I gave a few years ago at the WCRT meeting on Rose Halprin, a Zionist in the age of post-Zionism. It was thrilling for me to hear her voice, and to recognize the determination and leadership so clear in her writing. She spoke like the tough New Yorker she was.
The newsletters can be found here: http://digital.cjh.org/R/FL9L2QGNQI34Y78BEFA9H3VNBE3BGQ9YD8MQJNDQH9D63JSD3T-00537?func=collections-result&collection_id=1832
The Hadassah Bulletins and Hadassah Newsletters are the best surviving record of Hadassah's activities as it grew from a small organization with 1100 members in 1914 to a national organization with political and financial clout of 28,000 members in 1933. Browse through the issues in the link above or study one issue through the years by using the search feature. The Newsletters during these 20 years documented the contributions of chapters and individuals as well as the projects Hadassah supported in Palestine in rich detail.
I began working on a new collection this summer, no longer exclusively a women's organization, but will keep my eye on the Hadassah collection in the stacks and online.
Please enjoy.
Susan Woodland
Senior Archivist
UJA-Federation of New York Collection
swoodland@ajhs.org
announcement of interest from the Senior Archivist of UJA-NY Re: Hadassah Historical Materials:
I am pleased to announce the digitization of 50 audio reels and 20 years of newsletters (1914-1933) thanks to a generous Collaborative Digitization Grant from METRO (www.metro.org), the Metropolitan New York Library Council, which administers grants through the New York State library system.
The grant was a collaboration between the Hadassah archives and the Digital Lab at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, where the archives are housed.
The sound recordings can be found here:http://digital.cjh.org/R/FL9L2QGNQI34Y78BEFA9H3VNBE3BGQ9YD8MQJNDQH9D63JSD3T-00573?func=collections-result&collection_id=1853
The sound recordings cover the years 1949 to 1978, produced by Hadassah to document groundbreakings, building dedications and to capture in oral histories not only the remembered detail of events the Hadassah women lived through, but the voices that describe those events. Some of you may remember a short paper I gave a few years ago at the WCRT meeting on Rose Halprin, a Zionist in the age of post-Zionism. It was thrilling for me to hear her voice, and to recognize the determination and leadership so clear in her writing. She spoke like the tough New Yorker she was.
The newsletters can be found here: http://digital.cjh.org/R/FL9L2QGNQI34Y78BEFA9H3VNBE3BGQ9YD8MQJNDQH9D63JSD3T-00537?func=collections-result&collection_id=1832
The Hadassah Bulletins and Hadassah Newsletters are the best surviving record of Hadassah's activities as it grew from a small organization with 1100 members in 1914 to a national organization with political and financial clout of 28,000 members in 1933. Browse through the issues in the link above or study one issue through the years by using the search feature. The Newsletters during these 20 years documented the contributions of chapters and individuals as well as the projects Hadassah supported in Palestine in rich detail.
I began working on a new collection this summer, no longer exclusively a women's organization, but will keep my eye on the Hadassah collection in the stacks and online.
Please enjoy.
Susan Woodland
Senior Archivist
UJA-Federation of New York Collection
swoodland@ajhs.org
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