Project Grant RH10304620

The Center for Jewish History, Inc. will receive $700,000 through a three-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The Center will arrange, describe, and provide intellectual access to the records of the Council of Jewish Federations for the first time. Totaling 1,475 linear feet, the Council's records document 20th century American Jewish philanthropy and public service at the national...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,300 Project Grant to the American Jewish Historical Society under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). This 3-year project will process and digitize the regional office records series from the institutional archives of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which documents the organization's frontline initiatives to combat antisemitism, racism, and other forms of hate across over 25...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program provided $199,510 to the Yivo Institute For Jewish Research to digitize and provide online access to three collections in its archives. Specifically, the award supported retaining five staff members to digitize approximately 70,000 pages from the Vilna Territorial Collection, Records of the Lithuanian Jewish Community Council, and the Jewish Customs...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Jewish Theological Seminary of America a $349,999 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to catalog, preserve, and digitize approximately 7,000 at-risk broadsides, ephemera, and prints from the institution's collection. The project, spanning from October 1, 2025, through March 31, 2028, focuses on materials created between the 17th century...

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) to the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. The grant funding supports the digitization, preservation, and online publication of Yivo's extensive archival collections related to East European and Russian Jewish studies, including materials on the Yiddish language, literature, folklore, the Holocaust, and the American Jewish...

The Center for Jewish History, Inc. was awarded a $199,791 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support preservation and access activities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program. Through this funding, the Center will retain 14 core staff positions and hire one intern to sustain public-facing and preservation services. Key deliverables include preserving physical collections, increasing access through continued...

The Center for Jewish History, Inc. has received a $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to reconstruct the building envelope of its collection storage stacks. This project, which is part of the Center's broader sustainability initiative, will improve the preservation of its irreplaceable Jewish historical collections and reduce energy costs and emissions. The grant will cover 90% of the cost to...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $349,524 Project Grant under its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, a non-profit organization. The grant supports a 3-year project to process, digitize, and provide online access to 122 linear feet of records from four major 20th century American labor union collections held in Yivo's Jewish Labor and Political Archives. These collections, which...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded the Dallas Holocaust Museum $331,726 under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) for a project grant running from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. The museum will use the funding to catalog and digitize their remaining collection of 4,008 items documenting the history of the Holocaust and human rights in a local context. This includes diaries, letters, photographs, and 3D objects. Specifically, the museum will create...

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to support cataloging and digitizing approximately 62 hours of film footage and 90 hours of videotape from the documentary "A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, 1992-1996." The award was made under NARA's National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA #89.003) to undertake activities related to...