Join us on Sunday, April 29, 2018 at the Siegel Jewish Community Center at 101 Garden of Eden Road, Wilmington, DE 19803. The annual meeting will begin at 1 o’clock PM and the program will follow. Light refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the program. The event is free and open to the public.
Take an inside look at the “Dear Mollye” collection with the Jewish Historical Society of Delaware’s archivist, Gail Pietrzyk. We’ll tell the story of Mollye Sklut, who wrote to hundreds of men and women serving during WWII and go beyond to pay tribute to the many other heroic Delawareans who served and sacrificed for the war effort. Learn about the Gold Star Mothers, who lost their sons in battle. Honor those who earned Silver Stars, Purple Hearts, Distinguished Flying Crosses, and many other citations for bravery and courage.
Discover how letters and photographs stored for 75 years can come to life and the stories of long ago can inspire and enrich us today.
Post card from Leonard Cooper to Mollye Sklut, Under the K.P. tree
“These letters have everything,” says archivist Pietrzyk, “romance, humor, courage, and if you count KP duty, even the kitchen sink! “
This introduction will launch the JHSD’s web-exhibit for the “Dear Mollye” collection. We hope visitors will share their memories, stories, and photographs to help us all preserve and remember the Greatest Generation.
The Jewish Historical Society of Delaware held it’s annual meeting last evening at the Siegel Jewish Community Center in Wilmington. Our program centered on the recent release of a new publication by Rabbi Edward Zerin, A Tribute to My Teacher Rabbi Simon Krinsky. The evening offered a delightful taste of the poems of Rabbi Simon Krinsky in both Yiddish and in English translation presented by Rabbi Peter Grumbacher and Ruth Fisher Goodman. A special treat was a recording of Rabbi Krinsky reading one of his poems.
Rabbi Ed Zerin shared his thoughts with the members of the Jewish Historical Society of Delaware in a video presentation produced by Lief Isaksen.
The book, A Tribute to My Teacher Rabbi Simon Krinsky, was a labor of love for Ed Zerin and took nearly two years for the manuscript preparation and proofreading. With the translator on the West coast and the designer on the East coast, the undertaking was a transcontinental adventure making use of many new communications and technology advances to accomplish the task. But the most valuable resources were the time-tested and always helpful ones—patience and attention to detail.
Photos from the collections of the Jewish Historical Society of Delaware are currently on display at the Siegel Jewish Community Center, Wilmington, DE
Visitors to the Bernard and Ruth Siegel Jewish Community Center on Garden of Eden Road in Wilmington, Delaware have been treated to an exhibition of historic photographs from the collections of the Jewish Historical Society of Delaware. These classic images of Wilmington in days gone by illustrate a vibrant and lively Jewish community. We hope you will stop and visit this exhibition. If your interest in the history of Jewish Delaware is peaked by these images, be sure to schedule a visit to the Jewish Historical Society of Delaware.
