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 | | The 1999 Roger E. Joseph Prize was awarded to The Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library, in London, and the Jewish Historical Institute, in Warsaw, at Ordination and Investiture Services at Congregation Emanu-El in the City of New York, on May 16, 1999. |
 | | Dating back to 1881 as the library of the Great Synagogue on Tolmackie Street in Warsaw with a mission to collect documentation of local Jewish communities, its facility opened in 1936 with an expanded mission of research, pedagogy, and rabbinic and teacher training, and the collection of works by Jewish artists. |
 | | During the Holocaust, while its library was plundered and its building partially destroyed, it was the center for the famous underground effort, directed by Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, to research and document the life and liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto and other Polish Jewish communities. |
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