Spotlight Exhibit Series

      Pullman Porters on Parade
      The Pullman Porters on Parade
sheet music M1630.2.A27 P85 1913

Across Time and Place: Jewish Genealogy
at The Newberry Library
August 14 - September 27, 2008

The Newberry Library collects original source material pertaining to the history and culture of western Europe from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century and the Americas from the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans. The breadth of the Newberry's collections makes it a premier research facility for studying Jewish genealogy. This exhibition displays a sample of what the Library has to offer, and emphasizes research techniques to help you further explore your roots. Step inside to view a marriage contract created in 1700s Italy, a German newspaper from 1861, sheet music published in New York in 1913, and the memoir of a California pioneer. This is truly a collection that spans time and place.

Be sure to visit the Library's Local and Family History Collections, Special Collections, and Cartographic Collections to get helpful genealogy research tips and discover even more treasures. Register today for a free reader's card and explore!

Object List

Memoirs of American Jews, 1775-1865
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1955-56
Newberry Library E 461 .551

The Near and Middle East Who's Who; Vol. II: Israel
Tel-Aviv: Near and Middle East Who's Who Publishing Co.,
1945-1949
Newberry Library E 461 .616

Chicago Home for Jewish Orphans. Annual report...
Chicago, 1898-1899
Newberry Library I 312 .167

Marriage Contract
Venice: 1711, manuscript on parchment
Newberry Library Vault Hebrew MS 11

Ephraim Israel Blücher
Karte von Palästina in hebräischer Schrift: nach den besten Quellen bearbeitet = Mapa Eretz Yisrael
Grätz bei Posen: Verlage von E. J. Blücher, 1858
Newberry Library Map2F G7500 1858 B5 (PrCt); Gift of Lillian Jaloss

Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums
Leipzig: Baumgärtners Buchhandlung Jahrg. 25, no. 48
(November 26, 1861)
Newberry Library A 53. 025

Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Cincinnati: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1891
Newberry Library F 6187 .15, Vol. 31, 1921

Maurice Abrahams and Ren. G. May [Irving Berlin]
The Pullman Porters on Parade
New York: Maurice Adams, c1913
Newberry Library sheet music M1630.2.A27 P85 1913

Latvia: map of memorable places of Jewish history: synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, burial places of the Holocaust victims
Riga, Latvia: Shamir; Ebreji Latvija, 2005
Newberry Library Map4C G7041.E1S1 2005 .B3 (PrCt)

Letter from Julia Wiggins Brinkman to Ben Hecht, Sept. 21, 1946
Newberry Library Midwest MS Hecht, Box 65, Folder 1791g, Brinkman
Bequest of Rose Caylor Hecht