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Under one roof, at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, one can now find an extensive book, archive and art collection. Included among the items are the orig- inal handwritten draft of Emma Lazarus' 1883 "Give me your tired, your poor" poem that went on to be inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty; the old- est American Jewish cookbook; Sandy Koufax's Brooklyn Dodgers jersey; and the eyeglasses of Jewish Enlightenment thinker Moses Mendelssohn. The institution is a consortium of five Jewish organizations brought together into a $50-million facility designed specifically for the purpose. By joining together, the partner organ- izations bring together under one roof several areas of Jewish history — the American Jewish Historical Society, which focuses on the U.S. Jewish experi- ence; the American Sephardi Federation; the Leo Baeck Institute, whose holdings are on Jews in German-speaking coun- tries; the Yeshiva University Museum; and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which addresses Eastern European Jewish history. The organizations will maintain sep- arate boards and budgets but share resources and jointly sponsor various events. The center's primary mission is to serve scholars of Jewish history, but the center and its individual partners also will offer services of general inter- est, hosting art exhibits, concerts and public lectures, as well as assisting peo- ple with family history projects. A gleaming new building on a block of brownstones in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, the center is physically impressive, with state-of- the-art computers, a custom-designed stone floor in the lobby with intricate biblical-themed designs, extensive gallery and display space and jade and teal detail trimming the wood-pan- eled, skylit reading room. The center is earning mostly praise, both from scholars and the partner organizations. Michael Fedberg, executive director of the American Jewish Historical Society, said the center will "provide a meeting ground on which scholars from differ- ent institutions can interact and enrich thinking" about Jewish history. Carl Rheins, executive director of YIVO, said the new facility dramati- cally improves his organization's ability to properly store materials, offer pub- lic programs and serve researchers. "Our previous mansion was not air- conditioned, not properly humidified for documents and had no adequate space for researchers to work," he said. "We're here now in a modern center with a magnificent temperature-con- trolled storage area, and state-of-the art computers, phone systems and faxes." Natan Meir, a doctoral candidate in Jewish history at Columbia University, said the center is a "won- derful place to work." "The reading room is beautiful, and I think it's fantastic that all the organiza- tions will be under one roof," he said. However, some scholars question whether investing so lavishly in a physical building, particularly in Manhattan, where real estate is expen- sive, is the best use of resources. Instead, they argue, the center might have been wiser to store the materials in a more modest facility and focus on making them all available over the Internet. Jonathan Sarna, Braun professor of modern Jewish history at Brandeis University, said he is concerned that so much money is going into bricks and mortar that there won't be money available for the scholarly programs of the center." The majority of the center's operat- - ing budget goes toward maintaining the building, but that does not include the services covered in the partner organizations' budgets, say officials of the organizations. Currently, the center's resources are not available on the Internet and the separate catalogs for the organiza- "