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Jeremy Katz
Jeremy Katz has put most of the Breman’s visual archives and oral histories online.
September 7, 2021, 9:30 pm
The Breman Is Losing Its Archivist
Jeremy Katz has played a key role in bringing the museum’s archives and oral histories to a wider audience.
By Bob Bahr
Leslie Gordon is the executive director of The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.
September 3, 2021, 4:31 pm
Leslie Gordon’s 2021 Rosh Hashanah Message
Read community insights, perspectives and opportunities seen as we enter into the 5782/ 2021 New Year.
By Leslie Gordon
Ann Schoenberg interviewed Sherry Frank in 1993. (Courtesy of Sherry Frank)
August 12, 2021, 4:27 pm
Legacy of Legendary Jewish Georgians
An innovative online catalog system now brings the voices and faces of The Breman Museum’s vast oral history collection directly onto your computer.
By Flora Rosefsky
Passover seder at Joseph Schaffer home at 236 Atlanta Avenue in 1935.
March 26, 2021, 9:57 am
New Book is Window to Atlanta’s Jewish Past
Images drawn from The Breman Museum’s archives chronicle almost 175 years of growth and influence.
By Bob Bahr
Photo courtesy of Bill Rothschild and the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum// Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King with Rabbi Jacob Rothschild and Janice Rothschild at the January 1965 dinner in Atlanta honoring King’s receiving the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
June 19, 2020, 7:35 am
Rothschild Helped Lay Path for Today’s Activist Rabbis
At a time when many Southern Jews felt compelled to balance their racial and religious identities, the Pittsburgh native felt no such reticence.
By Dave Schechter
The Morris Hirsch Clinic, circa 1950. In 1911, Morris Hirsch, a founder of The Temple, established the clinic, providing outpatient medical services to the less fortunate. In 1956, the clinic became The Ben Massell Dental Clinic, providing free dental care to those in need. (Atlanta Jewish Federation records, Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba Archives for Southern Jewish History at The Breman Museum).
April 20, 2020, 6:52 am
COVID-19: Call to Preserve Jewish Atlanta’s Response
The Breman Museum is asking Jewish Atlanta to preserve history from the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Jeremy Katz
Photos from The Breman Museum archives // Ella Menko Joel stands in front of her car wearing flapper garb in 1920.
February 20, 2020, 1:37 pm
Jewish Atlanta’s Influence on Roaring 20s
The AJT visited the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum to learn how Atlanta’s Jewish community influenced this fascinating decade.
By Tiffany Parks
Jeremy Katz of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum and Renee Kutner of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta receive a quilt from members of the Oak Grove United Methodist Church.
December 12, 2018, 1:18 pm
Church Quilt Honoring Pittsburgh to be Housed at The Breman
Members of the Oak Grove United Methodist Church delivered a prayer quilt to the Federation that they made for the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Lois Blonder shares her experiences growing up in Atlanta's Jewish community after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award during the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta's annual meeting.
June 20, 2018, 1:10 pm
Federation Looks to the Future at Annual Meeting
Community members gathered to highlight individuals who have made an impact during the Federation's meeting.
By Dave Schechter
While his fraternity brother, Congregation Shearith Israel Rabbi Ari Kaiman, and Eli Harrison listen, Lander Gold, the senior director of advancement and philanthropic partnerships for Moishe House, tells about the organization’s origins in 2006 in Oakland, Calif., when three friends decided to hold a Shabbat dinner and ended up hosting more than 70 young adults.
October 11, 2017, 4:09 pm
Moishe House Celebrates 3rd Atlanta Home
Five months after opening, Moishe House Buckhead held a formal mezuzah-hanging ceremony Sunday night, Oct. 8
By Leah R. Harrison
The site of multiple civil rights demonstrations and sit-ins, Leb’s Deli no longer exists. The Landmark Diner occupies the former Leb’s location at the corner of Forsyth and Luckie streets.
August 22, 2017, 3:09 pm
Trolley to Tour Jewish Atlanta’s Civil Rights History
This February, the Breman Museum will again run a free historic Jewish Atlanta civil rights trolley tour.
By David R. Cohen
The DoubleTree hotel in downtown Atlanta is in the final stages of retro renovations to honor Dr. Marvin Goldstein who opened the Americana Motor Hotel in 1962, downtown's first integrated hotel. The hotel lobby features midcentury modern furniture.
August 22, 2017, 1:25 pm
DoubleTree Returns to Civil Rights Roots
The DoubleTree hotel in downtown Atlanta recently underwent a retro makeover in honor of its civil rights history.
By David R. Cohen
July 12, 2017, 12:17 pm
40 Under 40: Jeremy Katz
Jeremy Katz, 29, is the archives director at the Breman Museum.
Adam Hirsch, Eliana Leader, Prodezra Beats, Maddie Cook, Bobby Nooromid, Whitney Kweskin, Jonathan Tescher, Corby Hershman, Noah Pawliger and Mamie Vogel are just a few members of the 2017 AJT 40 Under 40.
July 12, 2017, 10:42 am
Meet Jewish Atlanta’s 40 Under 40
20 women and 20 men helping make the Atlanta Jewish community better.
By David R. Cohen, Rachel Fayne, Patrice Worthy and Sarah Moosazadeh
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