Special Collections at the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College

Gary Zola spoke about the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College and shared some items from its special collections. The American Jewish Archives as established in 1947 by historian Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus to collect, preserve, and make available for research, materials on the history of Jews and Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere.

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2015 LCV Cities Tour” in Cincinnati, Ohio, from June 26-July 1 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2. close