Video library
American Inspiration Author Series
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Menachem Kaiser with Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
On a Fulbright Fellowship in Lithuania in 2010, Toronto native Menachem Kaiser traveled to Poland and there, in the village of Sosnowiec, he was inspired to take up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building.
Resources at American Ancestors
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Using the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center Archives for Family History Research
The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center (JHC) at New England Historic Genealogical Society preserves the histories of Jewish families and institutions in New England and beyond.
Art & Architecture
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The Story of Jewish Families and Their English Country Houses
By the 19th century, Protestant England was one of the most tolerant countries in Europe for Jews and had a prime minister who had been born Jewish. The result was a flourishing Jewish community, primarily centered in the counties near London, that built and acquired great country houses and established world class art collections and gardens of delight.