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JHSUM contributed to three recent publications:
• Larry Perlman A Memoir includes this acknowledgement: “With gratitude to the staff of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest for their assistance and for their excellent archives on the old West Side of St. Paul.”
• Peg Meier used JHSUM archives to find materials for her newest book, Wishing for a Snow Day published by MHS Press. Ruth Brin and Fannie Schanfield’s childhood reminiscences are featured.
• Rutgers University Press chose one of our photos as the cover for their publication A Jewish Feminine Mystique: Jewish Women in Postwar America.
• A collection of essays, The State We’re In, from Minnesota Historical Press includes one by Linda Schloff about Jewish women in Virginia integrating into the community.
• We won! We have been awarded a Minnesota Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant funded by the Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund to conduct oral histories about Jewish settlement in St. Louis Park. Please help us uncover the stories about life in St. Louis Park in the 1950’s and 60’s. Send names of individuals to interview to history@jhsum.org
• JHSUM was invited by the Midwest Art Conservation Center to participate in their Subsidized Survey Program in October 2009. The Conservation survey is an opportunity for archives and museums to receive a complete conservation audit of collections and facilities at a dramatically reduced rate. The audit identifies an institution’s strengths and problem areas with respect to preservation practices, which then informs the planning and writing process for large, federally funded grant projects. JHSUM jumped on the opportunity based on our 100% success rate receiving federally funded grants.
• Iric Nathanson, a JHSUM member and past contributor to several JHSUM publications and programs has recently published a new history of Minneapolis featuring two chapters on Jewish community relations. The book, entitled Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century: The Growth of an American City is published by Minnesota Historical Society Press.
• Our Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives will have materials in the upcoming exhibit “Below the Surface: Ten Years of Archive and Special Collections in Elmer Andersen Library” running from March 29 to June 25 in the Library Gallery. The show looks at universal themes, including power, death, love, faith war and beauty through the lens of archival materials.
• Selected JHSUM photos and descriptions of those photos are now available on Flickr Commons, an extension of the popular Flickr web site that pioneered photo sharing. For a look, go to http://www.flickr.com/commons/
• JHSUM received prominent thanks in their 100th anniversary publication from Jewish Family and Children’s Services for help provided with organizing JFCS historical materials for their year long centennial celebration. Congratulations to the JFCS staff and administration for a century of extraordinary service to the Minneapolis community.
