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Nourishing Tradition
JEWISH COOKBOOKS & THE STORIES THEY TELL
TREASURES FROM THE DAVID BERG RARE BOOK ROOM
AT THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY
The David Berg Rare Book Room at the Center for Jewish History is a shared exhibition space for the Center and Partners’ treasures. In exhibitions and collections of rare books, first editions, illuminated manuscripts and letters, the room brings together written materials from around the world, in 23 different languages and dating back five and a half centuries.
The David Berg Rare Book Room was made possible by a $2.5 million grant from The David Berg Foundation. David Berg, the youngest son in a struggling immigrant family who came to Ellis Island from Russia in 1904, was a real estate lawyer who established the foundation in 1994 to support Jewish, education and law-related charities. The David Berg Foundation is a supporter of major cultural institutions around the world.
The Center for Jewish History is home to the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
AMERICAN JEWISH
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
THE ICONOGRAPHY OF MANHATTAN ISLAND, 1498-1909
I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps) Stokes
New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928.
F128.37 .S88
American Jewish Historical Society
This six-volume set is one of forty-two copies printed on Japanese vellum; 360 additional sets were printed on English hand-made paper. The front blank leaf of Volume I is inscribed and autographed by the author: “Air, water, soul, of greatest purity; and all, combined in sweetest harmony, unite the ploughed up land to fructify." New York, July, 3d 1916. I.N. Phelps Stokes.”