Organizations Filed Purposes:
THE AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY IS THE OLDEST ETHNIC, CULTURAL ARCHIVE IN THE UNITED STATES. AJHS PROVIDES ACCESS TO MORE THAN 25 MILLION DOCUMENTS AND 50,000 BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHS, ART AND ARTIFACTS THAT REFLECT THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 1654 TO THE PRESENT.AT OUR HOME ON WEST 16TH STREET IN DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN, AJHS ILLUMINATES AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY THROUGH OUR MANY ARCHIVAL TREASURES, SCHOLARSHIP, EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS. AMONG THE TREASURES OF THIS HERITAGE ARE THE HANDWRITTEN ORIGINAL OF EMMA LAZARUS' THE NEW COLOSSUS, WHICH GRACES THE STATUE OF LIBERTY; RECORDS OF THE NATION'S LEADING JEWISH COMMUNAL ORGANIZATIONS; AND IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS IN THE FIELDS OF EDUCATION, PHILANTHROPY, SCIENCE, SPORTS, BUSINESS AND THE ARTS. AJHS IS THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH PAST.
AJHS provides access to over 25 million documents as well as books, photographs and artifacts reflecting the history of the Jewish presence in the U.S. from 1654 to the present.
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE - THE ORGANIZATION WELCOMES ALL RESEARCHERS WHO WISH TO CONDUCT RESEARCH ON AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE FROM FIRST ARRIVAL IN THE AMERICAS TO THE PRESENT DAY. THE LIBRARY CONSISTS OF APPROXIMATELY 50,000 VOLUMES, INCLUDING BOTH BOOKS AND SERIALS (JOURNALS AND PERIODICALS). THE ORGANIZATION HOUSES APPROXIMATELY 1,500 ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS AND HAS DEVELOPED FINDING AIDS FOR ITS PERSONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL HOLDINGS, AND THEY ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE.
Public Programs - Programming and exhibitions relating and contributing to AJHSs established archival collection on American Jewry took place throughout the year. They included film screenings, panel discussions, poetry readings, music programs, book talks and more.IN 2019 AJHS CURATED THE EXHIBIT REWIND: VOICES OF THE PAST ADVISING THE FUTURE AN EXHIBITION EXPLORING THE UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION. IN 2019, AJHS HOSTED A SERIES OF EVENTS ENTITLED NOT JUST FUNNY GIRL: JEWISH AMERICAN WOMEN IN COMEDY. THIS SERIES INCLUDED A FILM SCREENING OF "LOVE, GILDA: THE ETERNAL SPIRIT OF GILDA RADNER"FROM JEAN CARROLL TO MRS. MAISEL: JEWISH WOMEN COMEDIANS AS AN INSPIRATION," A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH NOAF GARDENSWARZ, WRITER FOR THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL, AND GRACE OVERBEKE, DRAMATURG CURRENTLY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
PUBLICATIONS - AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL JOURNAL - SCHOLARLY JOURNAL OF PUBLISHED ARTICLES ON AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY THEMES.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Annie Polland | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | 35 | $223,573 |
| Laurence Zuckerman | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 |
| Hedy Zankel | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 |
| Justin L Wyner | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 |
| Ronald S Tauber | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 |
| Morton M Steinberg | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 |
| Bruce Slovin | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 |
| Julie Salamon | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 |
| Louise P Rosenfeld | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 |
| Dana Raucher | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 |
| Nancy T Polevoy | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 |
| Jeffrey S Oppenheim | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 |
| Deborah Dash-Moore | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 |
| Bernard J Michael | TRUSTEE | 2 | $0 |
| Paul Isaac | TRUSTEE (THRU 12/2019) | 1 | $0 |
| Ronald C Curhan | TRUSTEE | 2 | $0 |
| Lila Corwin Berman | TRUSTEE | 2 | $0 |
| Samuel R Karetsky | TREASURER | 2 | $0 |
| Shari Levy | VICE PRESIDENT | 1 | $0 |
| Joshua H Landes | VICE PRESIDENT | 1 | $0 |
| Scott Einhorn | VICE PRESIDENT | 1 | $0 |
| Felicia Herman | PRESIDENT | 1 | $0 |
| Sidney Lapidus | CHAIRMAN | 2 | $0 |
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