Our summer intern, Ben Beezy, a Senior at USC works
on "databasing" the 4,000 photos that make up our extensive photo
archive.
During the Spring and Summer of 2007, the Brin
family turned over all the documents relating to the Heritage
Newspapers to Western States Jewish History for sorting,
archiving and placing in research institutions where the material
would be of value to scholars and historians.
50 years of bound copies of the Heritage
Newspapers where sent to UCLA Special Collections and Hebrew Union
College in Los Angeles, and to the Rose Society in San Diego. They
are a treasure showing the history of Jewish Los Angeles, Orange
County, Ventura County and San Diego for the years beginning with
the early 1950s to the turn of the 21st century.
Hundreds of photographs were added to the
Photo Archives of WSJH.
Office records, ephemera, correspondence, etc. is
being prepared for placement at another institution.
IF ANYONE KNOWS THE LOCATION OF THE BOUND COPIES
OF THE B'NAI B'RITH MESSENGER, PLEASE CONTACT US!
Recently, the Publishers of Western States Jewish
History introduced Harris Newmark III and Linda Levi to the
Sr. Staff of the Autry National Center. Harris and Linda, cousins,
are both from the family of Harris Newmark. Harris Newmark
was a founding supporter of the Southwest Museum, now a part of the
Autry National Center.
On January 25, 2007, Professor William Deverell, the Directory of
the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West picked up 20
cartons of old, rare books on Jewish California History as-well-as
dozens of pamphlets and programs of places, events and programs from
Southern California's past to be processed and archived in the
Huntington Library as part of the new Western States Jewish History
collection.
January 2007 marked the Dedication and Reception of the Western States Jewish History
Archives located at the Charles Young Research Library, Department of Special
Collections at UCLA.
Honored with a plaque at the reception at Royce Hall were our
WSJH archivists:
Betty Cohen, Harvey Cohen, Sheva Levinsky, Bea Cooper,
Mal Cohen, Fran Schuster,Rhoda Lewis, Sylvia Marks and Carolyn
Porter b"l
January 2007 was also the publication of a special
issue of Western States Jewish History, (V39#2) totally dedicated to
the autobiography of the late Herb Brin, founder and publisher of the
Heritage Newspapers. His two sons, David and Dan Brin, helped with the
transcriptions of Herb's recordings and with the editing of the
manuscript.
This special issue is available on our WSJH Book
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