With a mission to collect, preserve, and exhibit television and radio programs related to the Jewish experience, the NJAB is one of a few culturally specific media centers with a major subject-oriented collection, operating within a museum context. The Ed Sullivan Show courtesy of CBS Photo Archive

Established in 1981 in association with The Charles H. Revson Foundation, the NJAB collection contains over 4,300 programs from 1935 to the present, most of which have been obtained courtesy of networks, commercial and independent stations, production companies, and individual contributors.

To view selected media clips from the NJAB,
click here.

Left: Bridget Loves Bernie courtesy of Photofest
Right: thirtysomething courtesy of Photofest

Highlights include:

• News footage from the 1950\'s to the present including Edward R. Murrow\'s reportage on the first decade of Israeli statehood and McCarthyism in the United States
• anti-Semitic radio sermons of Father Charles E. Coughlin and a report on the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
• Independent and network-produced documentaries on Jews from Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Israel, including the public television series Pillar of Fire and Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
• Documentaries on Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, George Segal, Ben Shahn and other artists
• Educational and religious broadcasts such as Directions, The Eternal Light, Frontiers of Faith, Lamp Unto My Feet, and Look Up and Live
• Manischewitz wine commercials produced between 1963 and 1981
• United Jewish Appeal telethons featuring Alan King, Barry Manilow, Bess Meyerson, Bette Midler, and Zero Mostel
• This is Your Life programs featuring Holocaust survivor Hanna Bloch Kohner
• Holocaust-themed dramas such as The Holocaust mini-series, Playhouse 90\'s "In the Presence of Mine Enemies," Skokie and episodes from The Twilight Zone and Star Trek
• Primetime dramatic series featuring recurring Jewish characters such as Brooklyn Bridge, thirtysomething, and L.A. Law
• Network comedies such as All in the Family, Bridget Loves Bernie, The Goldbergs, The Jack Benny Show, The Nanny, Northern Exposure, Rhoda, Saturday Night Live, and Seinfeld
• Appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show by comedians Woody Allen, the Barry Sisters, Morey Amsterdam, Mel Brooks, Jack Carter, Myron Cohen, Totie Fields, Sam Levenson, Jackie Mason, Carl Reiner, Joan Rivers, and Menasha Skulnick
• Variety programs such as Milton Berle\'s Texaco Star Theater, Your Show of Shows and My Name is Barbra
• Contemporary children\'s programming such as The Rugrats and Sesame Street

The NJAB is an important educational resource for the critical examination of how Jews have been portrayed and portray themselves, and how the mass media has addressed issues of ethnicity and diversity. The NJAB organizes screenings and public programs, creates media components for Jewish Museum exhibitions, and develops educational projects and curricula using media. Edward R. Murrow interviews David Ben-Gurion on
See It Now courtesy of CBS Photo Archive


The Museum\'s Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center opens on October 24, 2003 as part of the recently reinstalled third floor galleries of Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey. In addition to featuring an exhibition space dedicated to video and new media, the Media Center houses a digital library of radio and television programs from the National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting. Initially the Media Center will offer 100 NJAB programs and will expand to 1,000 programs over the next decade. Click here to find out about special exhibitions in the Media Center. For further information about the NJAB, please email njab@thejm.org.

To view a listing of recommended links to other media web sites, click here.

Program support for the Museum\'s broadcast archive is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.'; ?>