HOURS
Lillian Goldman Reading Room
Mon-Thurs: 9:30am-4:30pm
Fri: 10:00am-2:00pm by appointment only
Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute
Mon: 9:30am-4:30pm
Tue-Fri: By appointment only
Free Exhibit Spaces
Mon – Wed: 9:30am – 4:30pm
Thurs: 9:30am – 8:00pm
Fri: 10:00am – 2:00pm
Sat: Closed
Sun: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Ruth's Bookstore
Mon – Wed: 9:30am – 4:30pm
Thurs: 9:30am – 8:00pm
Fri: 10:00am – 2:00pm
Sat: Closed
Sun: 11am – 5pm
Make sure to check our holiday closures prior to visiting.
Last entry to the Center for Jewish History Exhibitions, Reading Room, and the Genealogy Institute is 1 hour before closing. The last call to page items in the Reading Room and Genealogy Institute is 3pm.
Professor Gavriel Rosenfeld, President
Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld has served as President of the Center for Jewish History since September 2022. In this leadership role, he serves as the Center's public voice on issues of Jewish historical relevance in the contemporary world. A prolific writer for both academic and general audiences, he has published widely in outlets including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Forward, and Jewish Review of Books.
Professor Rosenfeld is known for bringing scholarly insight to bear on issues of contemporary significance, from the politics of Holocaust memory to the rise of modern antisemitism. He is also Professor of History at Fairfield University.
A specialist in the history of Nazi Germany, Holocaust studies, memory studies, and counterfactual history, Professor Rosenfeld is the author or editor of ten books. His works include The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism since World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2019); Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture(Cambridge University Press, 2015), which received the German Studies Association's Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize in 2017; and Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust (Yale University Press, 2011), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Visual Arts.
His latest work is the two-volume study Predicting the Past: Counterfactual History from Antiquity to the Present, which will be published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg in July 2026.
Meet Our Leadership
