
Reading Room & Genealogy Institute
Mon-Thurs: 10am-4pm
Exhibit Spaces
Mon-Wed: 10am-4pm
Thurs: 10am-8pm
Fri: 10am-3pm
Sat: Closed
Sun: May 22, June 26, July 24 and August 28: 11am-5pm
Please note: Entry to the Center is by appointment only.
Last entry to the Center for Jewish History exhibition spaces is 30 minutes before closing.
inquiries@cjh.org
212.294.8301 ext. 5101
as of June 2021
Bruce Slovin, Founder & Chair Emeritus
Peter Baldwin Chair
David Friedman, Vice Chair
Ronald Lieberman, Treasurer
Elisheva Carlebach, Secretary
Michael Bamberger
Alexander Blavatnik
Leonard Blavatnik
David Dangoor
Michael Jesselson
Charles Knapp
Sidney Lapidus
Rachel Laufer
Ruth Levine
Joel Marcus
Irene Pletka
Robert Rifkind
Alexander Soros
Ed Stelzer
Michele Tocci
Shelby White
Simon Ziff
Bernard J. Michael, President/CEO
Rio Daniel, CFO/COO
Bernard J. Michael, President/CEO
Rio Daniel, COO/CFO
Daniel Nadelmann, Chief Development Officer
Rachel Miller, Chief of Archive and Library Services
American Jewish Historical Society
Gemma R. Birnbaum, Executive Director
American Sephardi Federation
Jason Guberman. Executive Director
Leo Baeck Institute
William Weitzer, Executive Director
Yeshiva University Museum
Gabriel Goldstein, Interim Director and Chief Curator
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Jonathan Brent, Executive Director
as of May 2021
Jeffrey Veidlinger (2021-2024), University of Michigan, Chair
Marjorie Lehman (2021-2024), Jewish Theological Seminary, Associate Chair
Beth S. Wenger (2021-2024), University of Pennsylvania, Ex-officio Chair
Lila Corwin Berman (2020-2023), Temple University
Francesca Bregoli (2019-2022), City University of New York
Glenn Dynner (2020-2023), Sarah Lawrence College
Eitan Kensky (2022-25), Stanford University
Rachel Kranson (2019-2022), University of Pittsburgh
Deborah Dash Moore (2020-2023), University of Michigan
Jess Olson (2022-25), Yeshiva University
Ronnie Perelis (2020-2023), Yeshiva University
Ellie R. Schainker (2020-2023), Emory University
Daniel Schwartz (2021-2024), George Washington University
Eliyahu Stern (2021-2024), Yale University
Paola Tartakoff (2021-2024), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Joshua Teplitsky (2021-2024), Stony Brook University