"Cooking With Class," B'nai Emunoh Sisterhood, undated.
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The Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives is launching a new community collecting initiative in 2020. In what we hope will become an annual tradition, the archive invites the entire community to spend the coming year collecting historic materials on a pre-determined theme.
For 2020, the theme is cookbooks. Cookbooks document local foodways, highlight communal and family bonds, and are also a ton of fun to read.
We are looking for any cookbook published in Western Pennsylvania by a Jewish individual or organization.
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Aaronel deRoy Gruber materials now on display
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Aaronel deRoy Gruber posing with plexiglass sculptures in her living room, c.1969. Aaronel deRoy Gruber Papers and Photographs, MSS 335.
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Aaronel deRoy Gruber (1918-2011) was a Pittsburgh-based artist with an international reputation. Over her half-century career, she evolved from painting, to metal sculpture, to plexiglass constructions, to photography, always taking chances in her use of materials, methods, and forms.
The estate of Aaronel deRoy Gruber donated her papers to the Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives in 2015.
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RJHPA Archivist Catelyn Cocuzzi is currently processing the collection to make it available for public research. She created a display of some of her favorite materials from the collection on the sixth floor of the History Center. The display presents a biography of deRoy Gruber through photographs, early artistic efforts, and documentation of her shows and remarkable works.
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A Very Merry Pittsburgh
closes Jan. 5
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B'nai B'rith McKeesport Lodge No. 573 menorah. Gift of Claire Iszauk and Sherman Elias.
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The annual holiday exhibit has two sections on Chanukah, including a chance to see the beautiful electric menorah Henry Friedman donated to the B'nai B'rith McKeesport Lodge in 1912.
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Jewish Chronicle, December 17, 1970, page 26.
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Daf Yomi is Hebrew for "daily page" and refers to a cycle of Talmudic study instituted by Rabbi Moshe Menachem Mendel Spivak on Rosh Hashanah 1923. Anyone who learns a two-sided page of Talmud each day can complete the entire 2,711-page text in seven-and-a-half years. Talmud students in Western Pennsylvania will join fellow scholars around the world in completing the 13th cycle of Daf Yomi on Saturday, Jan. 4.
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One of the earliest references to Daf Yomi in this region is a notice in the
Jewish Chronicle from Dec. 17, 1970. A few years into the seventh cycle, the Talmudical Institute and Mesivta of Pittsburgh launched two daily study groups, one in Pittsburgh and one in McKeesport. It claimed that these were the first such classes ever instituted in the tri-state region.
Those interested in learning more about Daf Yomi in our region can visit
Daf Yomi Pittsburgh at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.
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"The Nooks and Crannies of Local Jewish Genealogical Research"
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Beth Jacob Congregation (West Aliquippa, Pa.) memorial plaque. Shoshana Kaminsky Collection, 2002.0122.
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On Monday, Jan. 20, RJHPA Director Eric Lidji will be speaking at North Hills Genealogists on "The Nooks and Crannies of Local Jewish Genealogical Research."
His talk will review regional Jewish genealogical resources hidden away in unexpected places, such as memorial plaques, program advertisements, and synagogue bulletins.
The talk will be from 6:45-9 p.m. at the Kearns Spirituality Center at LaRoche University.
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Plan a Visit
Senator John Heinz History Center
1212 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, PA,15222
412-454-6000
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A proud affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, the
Senator John Heinz History Center
is the largest history museum in Pennsylvania and presents American history with a Western Pennsylvania connection.
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