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The Fordham Ram President Tetlow Meets

By TASNIMAH RAHMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Walsh Library preserves an exhibit called “The Remnants of Jewish Life in the Bronx.”

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The pieces establish Professor Magda Tetter, Ph.D’s vision of showcasing the geographic breadth of Jewish society consisting of high school yearbooks, memoirs, memory books, some efimeras restaurant receipts, business information and advertisements.

This past Wednesday, March 1, Reyna Stovall, FCLC ’25, who curated the exhibit, and Sophia Maier, FCRH ’23, shared their research with students, faculty and staff in the “Jews in the Bronx: Oral and Archival Histories” event.

As Fordham is based in the Bronx, Stovall and Teter came to the realization that there was a good period of time, through the ’40s and ’50s, where Jewish people made up most of the Bronx and thus began documenting this period by collecting efimeras/artifacts.

Stovall began curating this exhibit with a limited number

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