Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation

10/18/2026

Tribute to a hero without a grave - Raoul Wallenberg

Memory is an opportunity, a duty, an obligation. It can be denied only by deliberate erasure. Around the world and shockingly in the U.S., the denial of Holocaust memory is cancerously metastasizing.

Memory is an opportunity, a duty, an obligation. It can be denied only by deliberate erasure.  Around the world and shockingly in the U.S., the denial of Holocaust memory is cancerously metast…

10/12/2026

Dorothy Levitt

Champion Motor Car Racer, Motor Yacht Racer

Pioneer Aviator, Equestrian, British Jewish Feminist Author, Journalist

https://jashp1.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/dorothy-levitt-the-fastest-girl-on-earth/

09/22/2026

Historic markers continue to fight ignorance, hatred, and bigotry.

"Will the siting of the 20th marker in the Borscht Belt Marker Project mark the end of the effort?
No, at least two more are in consideration – one for the famed Grossinger’s Hotel, outside of Liberty, N.Y., and one so unique, it has never been done anywhere before. In the past few decades, large communities of Orthodox, Hassidic Jews have moved to the Borscht Belt. They established communities where Yiddish is the primary language. The possible 22nd marker being planned will be entirely in Yiddish."

https://jashp1.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/borscht-belt-historical-marker-program/

09/15/2026

Isaac Nathan - Father of Australian Music...

Musical Genius and spy defending the Court of William IV.

https://jashp1.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/the-father-of-australian-music/

07/05/2026

Adolph Sutro, the Frontier Thesis, and America 250

“You! Asser Levy, you, and those other Jews. Get down from the stockade wall. We Christians defend New Amsterdam (New York). Jews must pay a tax, stand aside”, ordered the Sergeant.
Levy looked at the Sergeant with quiet fury. He did not budge. He said, " We Jews stand shoulder to shoulder with you against any danger. This piece of land is your home. It is ours too. We will defend it with our blood.”
Governor Peter Stuyvesant of New Amsterdam hated Jews. The Jews stayed. They never paid the tax. It was 1654, the first Frontier Experience, where the Jews of the New World met the antisemitic hatred of the Old World. No one would ever again demand, when danger threatened, “Give everyone a gun, except the Jew.”

Mockup of the Sutro Sculptural Gift at the Sutro Tunnel Portico “You!  Asser Levy, you, and those other Jews. Get down from the stockade wall.  We Christians defend New Amsterdam (New Yor…

06/28/2026

Remembering the Jews of Mongolia

https://jashp1.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/in-memory-of-the-jews-of-mongolia/

"Jacob navigated the labyrinthine complexity of the at-times very difficult political maneuvering for site permission. Together, a text was prepared and revised because of sensitivities not Mongolian.
The passing of another hard Mongolian winter and the three language, English, Hebrew, and Mongolian, Jewish Mongolian interpretive stone was recently unveiled beneath a Star of David, and the logos of the crossed flags of the U.S. and Israel, and Jewish Mongolia at the bottom.

I did not know there were Jews in Mongolia.  After Richard Bloom, an award-winning Holocaust film documentarian and friend, sent me a Chabad article about Jews and Mongolia, I learned. Jews in…

05/30/2026

https://jashp1.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/the-scottish-waltz-with-two-lives-ashoken-farewell/

Ashoken  Farewell was composed by Jay Ungar, an American Folk Musician and Composer.  The music, beloved by tens of millions worldwide, has been described as haunting, mournful, hopeful, …

05/21/2026

Canterbury’s ‘celebrity’ Jews.

"There is a third amazing Jew from Canterbury that JASHP and Alan
would have liked to have memorialized - Nathan Isaacs. Isaacs, no relation to the earlier-mentioned Isaac Nathan, is buried in the Old Canterbury Jewish Cemetery near his mother.

Nathan Isaacs was a Jewish man born in Canterbury. Incredibly, he became a trusted Zulu War Chief to the famed Shaka Zulu.

Take a moment to let that sink in...

Nathan, a White Jewish man, became a trusted Zulu War Chief, leading Black Zulu warriors, fighting for Shaka Zulu."

Alan Barnett (left) and Graham Redman, (photo courtesy of Alan Barnett) In contemporary U.K. and around the world, Jews, Jewish historical presence, contributions, and patriotic loyalty are being o…

05/16/2026

Take Me Out To The Ball Game was the 1908 team effort of two friends, Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer. Both men had musical backgrounds; Norworth’s Dad was the Choir Director at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. Von Tilzer was a Jewish man from Indianapolis who composed popular songs.

https://www.wndu.com/2026/05/16/south-bend-cubs-unveil-historical-marker-ballpark-honor-indianapolis-native-albert-von-tilzer/

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=276027

The South Bend Cubs unveiled a historical marker at Four Winds Field Friday evening and honored the Jewish and Hoosier roots of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”

05/16/2026

Take Me Out To The Ball Game was the 1908 team effort of two friends, Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer. Both men had musical backgrounds; Norworth’s Dad was the Choir Director at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. Von Tilzer was a Jewish man from Indianapolis who composed popular songs.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=276027

The South Bend Cubs unveiled a historical marker at Four Winds Field Friday evening and honored the Jewish and Hoosier roots of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”