Discover the hidden treasures of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica through Curator’s Corner, a new series of video shorts spotlighting rare and remarkable items from the collection.

Produced by the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, each episode offers a brief, captivating look into the history and significance of these cultural gems.

We’re excited to launch the series with a special feature in honor of the Jewish festival of Sukkot, highlighting an exceptionally rare 18th-century book from Amsterdam.

This Yiddish map of American states and cities, originally published in 1917 by the Industrial Removal Office (IRO), reflects a pivotal chapter in the Jewish immigrant experience in early 20th-century America. Established to resettle Jewish refugees fleeing Eastern European pogroms, the IRO worked to disperse newcomers from overcrowded urban centers into smaller American towns with available jobs and growing Jewish communities. The map itself, labeled using Yiddish script to approximate phonetic English sounds, served both as a practical tool and a cultural artifact.

Thanks to the Judaica Library’s ongoing partnership with Ariel Abramovich, an Argentinian journalist and editor, and various Jewish institutions and publishers in Argentina, we can now offer online open access to previously inaccessible historical issues of the Jewish journal, Mundo Israelita. Originally founded in 1923 by Salvador Kibrick and Samuel Resnick, this important newspaper was the first Spanish weekly for the Argentine Jewish community.