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This is one of the first instances of a student holiday celebration, and presumably served Jewish students from outside Baltimore. Rabbi Rosenblatt was a regular lecturer at Hopkins, and published many articles in Jewish journals.

Due to the large number of Jews on campus, the Interfraternity board decided to open its membership to students from the Jewish fraternities as well as the non-Jewish ones. While this indicates structural anti-Semitism (Jewish students specifically…

Rosa Ponselle singing with Carmela Ponselle at the piano [at their Riverside Drive apartment?]. Stamped on back Nov. 30 1925 and Jul 23 1990.

over 50 couples went

The Zionist society was founded and organized largely with support of Jewish faculty, especially Professor David Blondheim. He became the first editor ofKadimah, the journal of the Intercampus Zionist Council. The Baltimore chapter helped lead the…

The Menorah Society was an inter-campus group that studied topics related to Jews, among them Israel (then Ottoman and later Mandatory Palestine), Judaism, and Biblical studies. Although it was primarily a Jewish group, apparently non-Jews were also…

Records of the Menorah Society board, along with that of the later Zionist Society, give us an idea of the Jewish leaders on campus at that time. Several of Baltimore's leading families were involved with the organizations-- in this case including…