Illuminating Jewish history, culture & heritage with archives, exhibits & programs. For the latest hours & information Plan your visit: https://new.cjh.org/visit/plan-your-visit The Center for Jewish History and its five partner organizations—American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research—provide access to more than 500,000 volumes and 100 million documents from their collections, including thousands of pieces of artwork, textiles, ritual objects, recordings, films and photographs. Taken as a whole, the collections span more than 600 years of Jewish history and comprise the largest and most comprehensive repository of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel. At the Center, the history of the Jewish people is illuminated through scholarship and cultural programming, exhibitions and symposia, lectures and performances.