ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Where and whom did the JHC collect oral histories from?
The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center (JHC) at American Ancestors in Boston is dedicated to preserving New England Jewish history, exploring Jewish heritage, and educating wide audiences about the American Jewish experience.
Through its extensive archives, educational programs and resources, exhibits, scholarship, and public events, the JHC engages historians, genealogists, students, and the general public in the study and understanding of Jewish history and heritage.
The JHC’s archival collections specialize in Boston, Massachusetts, and New England Jewish history and contain more than four million documents, more than 700,000 of which have been digitized and are fully searchable online in their Digital Archive. Many of the Center’s programs and events are also offered online, and you can access them by going to the JHC website.
This week we are speaking with Rachel King, the Executive Director of the Center, about its history and many programs and activities.
