The American Jewish Historical Society brought the Library of Congress exhibition, "‘From Haven to Home’: Three Hundred and Fifty Years of Jewish Life in America", to the new Moakley United States Court House in Boston in facsimile version. It is now located at the offices of the American Jewish Historical Society at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts through October 2006. The exhibition also includes many additional items of specific Boston area interest. Because of its court setting, the role of Jews in the law will receive special emphasis. Several of the Society’s most precious items related to Boston Jewish history will also be featured.

In the fall of 2004, the Library of Congress presented "‘From Haven to Home’: Three Hundred and Fifty Years of Jewish Life in America", one of its most popular exhibitions in decades. The exhibition commemorates the landing in 1654 of the first Jews who settled permanently in what is now the United States. It was assembled from the vast holdings of the Library of Congress and its three partners – the American Jewish Historical Society (New York and Newton, MA), the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (Cincinnati), and the National Archives and Records Administration (Washington, DC).

The Boston version of ’From Haven to Home’ is designed by Boston’s award-winning design firm Gill Fishman Associates.

A major catalog published by the Library of Congress and a supplement produced by the American Jewish Historical Society will accompany the exhibition.

In cooperation with the Society, numerous Boston-area historical, educational, cultural and religious organizations, both Jewish and non-Jewish, will offer original programming related to the exhibition’s themes. The Society will work closely with the Court, the public schools and private and religious schools to bring student audiences to the exhibition.

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