Kheel Center
Kheel Center News and Updates
The Spirit and Face of the Kheel Center — Melissa Holland by Marjorie Olds | January 31, 2024
Triangle Fire history preserved by ILR’s Kheel Center by Mary Catt | November 10, 2023
A Moving Memorial to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to Be Unveiled in NYC by Nicole Saraniero | October 11, 2023
Kheel Center exhibit explores labor-management conflict by Amira Shimin ’25 | May 11, 2023
Library exhibit explores fraught history of textile industry by Jose Beduya | October 24, 2022
Student receives Kheel Center research award by Jose Beduya | October 4, 2022
Textile exhibit opens with workers’ songs by Jose Beduya | September 19, 2022
Exhibit calls for textile art by Jose Beduya | August 31, 2022
Akron Metal Etching creating elements of Triangle Factory Fire memorial by Jennifer Conn, Akron | Aug. 25, 2022
HIV/AIDS exhibit tells story of love and acceptance by Jose Beduya | August 16, 2022
Student-librarian partnership makes history by Jose Beduya | May 3, 2022
“The Academy of Management Archives” Academy of Management (AOM) publication Academy News by Regina Greenwood | April 23, 2022
Kheel Center’s website on Triangle Fire workplace tragedy honored by Mary Catt | March 29, 2022
ILR’s Kheel Center names Strassberg Grant winners by Julie Greco | March 16, 2022
Kheel Center hosting March 21 talk on Triangle Fire book by Mary Catt | March 11, 2022
Lessons learned: Collaborating to digitise Yiddish-language collections at Cornell by Barb Morley, Steven Calco, and Elizabeth Parker | Winter 2021/2022, Journal for Digital Media Management
Kheel Center Undergraduate Award Celebrated by Mary Catt | November 16, 2021
Working as an archivist is ‘a dream’ for ILR’s Steven Calco by Mary Catt | November 9, 2021
Police union websites preserved by library archive by James Dean | September 2, 2021
Gifts boost photography teaching, collecting by Jose Beduya | June 28, 2021
Reweaving the Textile Industry Archive: Strategies for Building Inclusive Collections on the Legacy of the American Textile History Museum by Marcie Farwell | Library Trends Johns Hopkins University Press Volume 70, Number 1, Summer 2021
Archivists and curators share their favorite artifacts by Jose Beduya | May 26, 2021
Puppy Politics: Rokhl’s Golden City: What a dog named Labzik can teach us about communism by Rokhl Kafrissen | April 30, 2021
African Library exhibit explores MLK’s labor activism by Jose Beduya | April 30, 2021
Coretta Scott King and the Labor Movement by Marjorie Z. Olds| Mar 15, 2021
‘All Labor Has Dignity’ by Marjorie Z. Olds | Feb 20, 2021
From vaults to virtual classes, library archives enrich teaching by Jose Beduya | January 21, 2021
Treasuring Our Family’s Story by Marjorie Z. Olds | December 26, 2020
‘Di Linke’ webinar series explores history of Jewish Left by Kate Blackwood | December 3, 2020
Digitized files give rare glimpse of anti-union advocacy by Jose Beduya | October 30, 2020
Family ties abound in Cornell University Library archives by Jose Beduya | October 26, 2020
Newly discovered letters reveal professor’s impact on Ginsburg by Mary Catt | September 24, 2020
Apply now for Kheel Center undergraduate research award | February 13, 2020
Exhibit sheds light on railways’ discriminatory history by Jose Beduya | February 12, 2020
Lecturer to be featured in PBS documentary by Linda B. Glaser | August 30, 2019
City of Workers, City of Struggle opens at The Museum of the City of New York by AFineLyne | April 30, 2019
Latest MCNY exhibit explores the labor movement in New York by Lucie Levine | April 30, 2019
Threads of connection to Triangle tragedy by amNY | April 10, 2019
New curator gives historic textile collection a fresh start by Jessica E. Withers | July 3, 2019
City of Workers, City of Struggle Opens at the Museum of the City of New York on May 1 by the Museum of the City of New York | April 29, 2019
Exhibit on labor movements features Kheel C enter artifacts by Jose Beduya | April 23, 2019
New Exhibit Showcases Dr. King’s Involvement In Labor Rights Movement by Emily Yang |January 24, 2019
Exhibit chronicles women’s empowerment through fashion by Daniel Aloi | November 27, 2018
Documents illuminate U.S. Yiddish-speaking life until the Cold War by Melanie Lefkowitz | June 25, 2018
Railway records document more than a century of seismic labor shifts by Melanie Lefkowitz | May 2, 2018
New York City events honor Triangle fire victims, focus on new activists by David Ticzon | March 1, 2018
‘Union Made’ exhibit showcases labor, fashion history by Stephen D’Angelo | August 28, 2017
Library manages Queers for Economic Justice records by Melanie Lefkowitz | April 27, 2017
Downloads of labor contracts surge after they go online by Tracy Kinne | April 19, 2017
Library acquires vast collection of textile industry materials by Melanie Lefkowitz | March 7, 2017
Gift supports ILR School’s Kheel Center archives by Tracy Kinne | August 2, 2016
Grant to put Kheel Center railroad collections online by Melanie Lefkowitz | January 19, 2016
Law alum visits his archives in ILR’s Kheel Center by Melanie Lefkowitz | September 29, 2015
Labor nonprofit donates archives to Kheel Center by Gwen Glazer | January 10, 2014
Kheel Center to preserve workplace agreements by Mary Catt | December 23, 2013
Featured Projects
International Workers’ Order Digitization Grant
About 10,000 pages of documents from the Kheel Center’s collection of the International Workers’ Order records and the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order have been digitized, thanks to a Cornell Library Arts and Sciences grant in collaboration with Jonathan Boyarin, Mann Professor of Jewish Studies, and Elissa Sampson, visiting scholar and lecturer in the Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives, and Cornell library’s Digital Consulting and Production Services.
The IWO was founded in 1930 as a fraternal organization providing benefits such as health insurance to its members, and its Jewish division, the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order (JPFO), was the second-largest Jewish fraternal organization in the United States. More than 1,700 digitized documents, in English and Yiddish, are organized online into categories including education, Black-Jewish relations, Albert Einstein, women’s work and “World War II Jewish tanks and poems.” Newly digitized documents, which also include anti-Nazi posters and leaflets and a rare 1941 poetry anthology published in Moscow by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee can now be accessed on Cornell’s Digital Collections website.
Collective Bargaining Agreements Digitization Grant.
With support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Kheel Center will digitize and make available online more than 1,600 Collective Bargaining Agreements.