American Jewish History
American Jewish Committee Oral History Collection
From the New York Public Library. "The Dorot Jewish Division holds the only complete compilation of transcripts and recordings from this 25-year project that began in the 1960s.."
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American Jewish Historical Society Collection
From the Center for Jewish History. American Jewish life from first arrival in the Americas to the present day.
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American Jewish Yearbook
From the Berman Jewish Policy Archive. The entirety of the American Jewish Year Book during its publication by the American Jewish Committee (AJC), from 1900 through 2011.
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American Soviet Jewry Movement Photographs
From the American Jewish Historical Society. Digitized photographs from The Archives of the American Soviet Jewry Movement.
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American Soviet Jewry Movement Posters and Ephemera
From the American Jewish Historical Society. Posters and ephemera from The Archives of the American Soviet Jewry Movement.
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American Soviet Jewry Movement Trip Reports
From the American Jewish Historical Society. First-hand reports of those who traveled to the Soviet Union that document the conditions for Jews there.
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Brooklyn Jewish Center Archives
From Colby College. "Colby’s Maine Jewish History Project fosters research on Jewish life in Maine,"
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Bulletins of New York Modern Orthodox Synagogues 1925-1994
From Yeshiva University. Synagogue bulletins from Congregation Beth Israel of Washington Heights:, Congregation Beth Hillel of Washington Heights, Congregation Beth Hillel & Beth Israel, Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, Institutional Synagogue: November, Lincoln Square Synagogue, Young Israel of Parkchester.
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Columbus Jewish Historical Society collection
From the Columbus Jewish Historical Society. "“Videos comprised of digitized interviews, recordings, and photographs the history of the Jewish community of central Ohio."
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Documenting Maine Jewry
From Colby College. "Colby’s Maine Jewish History Project fosters research on Jewish life in Maine,"
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Dorot Jewish Division Postcards
From the New York Public Library.
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Early New York Synagogue Archives
From the Center for Jewish History. "The digitized records of five major New York synagogues: Shearith Israel, Bnai Jeshrun, and Ansche Chesed, the Kane Street Synagogue and the Eldridge Street Synagogue."
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Generation to Generation: Family Stories Drawn from the Rauh Jewish Archives
From the Heinz History Center. The stories of Jewish families in Western Pennsylvania.
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Gershwind-Bennett Isaac Leeser Digitization Project
From the University of Pennsylvania. Project to collect, digitize and unify the writings of Isaac Leeser (1806-1868), a German-Jewish immigrant from Westhphalia, who is widely regarded as the most important antebellum Jewish communal leader in the U.S.
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Henry Morais Papers
From Yeshiva University. "Consists of over 2000 items from more than 600 correspondents documenting Jewish religious, communal and intellectual life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries."
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Interactive Timeline of American Jewish History in the Twentieth Century
From the American Jewish Committee. Decade by decade events depicted in artifacts from the American Jewish Committee Archives.
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Isaac Mayer Wise Digital Archive
From the American Jewish Archives. "Consisting of approximately 3,300 items captured in nearly 20,000 digital images, the collection documents the life and work of the architect of Reform Judaism in America."
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Jewish American Cookbooks
From the New York Public Library.
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Jewish Americans in the Columbia River Basin
From Washington State University. Jewish settlement along the Columbia River Basin (encompassing areas of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah and and British Columbia).
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Jewish Buffalo Image Collection
From the University of Buffalo. Photographs and other images related to Jewish life in Buffalo and the Niagara Falls area t from the 19th century through the mid-20th century.
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Jewish Communal Register of New York City 1919-1918
From the New York Public Library.
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Jewish Diaspora Collection
From the University of Florida. Digital library of Jewish heritage materials from Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Jewish Digital Narratives
From the University of California Berkeley. Part of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, this site explores the networks of Jewish life in California and beyond.
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Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston
From The American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives (AJHS-NEA). More than 2 million records from: Institutional records of synagogues, Jewish social service organizations, schools, and hospitals and other institutions of Greater Boston, Massachusetts.
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Jewish Heritage Collection
From the University of Michigan. 600 objects in the Jewish Heritage Collection in the Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan.
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Jewish Heritage Collection of Oral Histories
From the College of Charleston. An inside perspective on the lives of Jewish residents of South Carolina’s cities and small towns.
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Jews in the Golden State
From the University of California Berkeley. Online digital portal providing an unprecedented view on the history of the Jews in California since the Gold Rush.
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Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania
From Historic Pittsburgh. This collection contains photographs ranging from 1911 to 1989, but is heavily weighted on the first half of the twentieth century.
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MOSAIC
From Florida State University. Over 1,100 images of Jewish life in Florida from the 1880s to the 1960s.
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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives
From the JDC. "Search over 500,000 names found in our historic documents and client lists of those helped by JDC, 2.85 million digitized pages from the JDC text collections spanning 1914-1977 and over 70,000 digitized photographs from 1914 to the present."
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Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
From the University of Minnesota. Institutional records, such as: the records of the St. Paul and Minneapolis Jewish federations, community centers, Talmud Torahs, the Jewish Vocational Service, the Jewish Community Relations Council, synagogue records and material about Jewish life in North Dakota and South Dakota.
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Neighborhood of Saturdays
From Indiana University. "Documenting the experiences of Sephardic Jews who came to Indianapolis from what was then the Ottoman Empire and lived there from the 1920s up to the 1960s "
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Philadelphia Jewish Archives
From Temple University. Digital images from many of the individual and family papers and organization records found within the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Collection in Pennsylvania.
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Pittsburgh and Beyond: The Experience of the Jewish Community
From the University of Pittsburgh. More than 500 oral history interviews focused on this Jewish community in Pennsylvania.
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Polish-Jewish Relations in Milwaukee: Oral History Project
From the University of Milwaukee. Jewish life in Wisconsin.
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Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman Collection
From the American Jewish Archives. From this American Reform Jewish rabbi was a prominent rabbi, Zionist, philanthropist, educator, communal leader and the chief executive of the United Jewish Appeal (a forerunner of the contemporary United Jewish Communities) in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer’s Papers
From Duke University. Material documenting the human rights activism of the Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer in 1970s and 1980s Argentina.
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Sermons of Rabbi Norman LammFrom Yeshiva University. 800 sermons that Rabbi Lamm delivered over 50 years,
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Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project
From the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Oral history transcripts, audio clips, newspapers, historical documents, photographs, scrapbooks, videos and a timeline.
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Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry Poster Collection
From Yeshiva University. 177 posters from the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) Records.
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The Leonard "Leibel" Fein Collection
From the Berman Jewish Policy Archive.
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The Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives
From the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Jewish communal life in Michigan.
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The Milstein Family Communal Archives Project
From YIVO. Chronicles the Jewish experience in 20th century New York City, as reflected in the archives of five UJA-Federation of New York beneficiary agencies: 92nd Street Y, The Educational Alliance, FEGS Health & Human Services , NYANA (New York Association for New Americans), and Surprise Lake Camp.
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The Washington State Jewish Archives
From the University of Washington. History of early Jewish families in Washington State.
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United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Photographs
From Historic Pittsburgh. Photographs from 1921 through 1988 from this city in Pennsylvania.
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Yeshiva University Yearbooks
From Yeshiva University. Includes yearbooks from Yeshiva College for Men (Masmid) and Stern College for Women (Kochaviah), from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Cardozo School of Law Yearbook), from the Teachers Institute for Men (Nir), a program for training Hebrew teachers, and from the University's affiliated boys and girls high schools (Elchanite and Elchanette)
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Zalman M. Schachter-Shlomi Collection
From the University of Colorado Boulder. Highlights the activities and interdisciplinary knowledge of the founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement and contains 5,000 manuscript pages, 500 audio cassettes, 500 photographs, 50 VHS tapes, and 25 posters.
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Utah Jews
The University of Utah. Transcripts of written interviews.
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Jewish Atlantic World
From Reed College. 5,000 images related to Jewish life in early America. The database includes both photos of material culture (gravestones, ritual baths, synagogues, houses, furniture, etc.) and archival documents (probate records and land evidence) from many of the key ports where Jews settled in North America and the Caribbean, as well as several crucial ports from which they immigrated (Amsterdam, London, Hamburg).
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Loeb Jewish Portrait Database
From the American Jewish Historical Society. Images of American Jews before 1865.
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Museum of Family History
From Steven Lasky. Audio and video clips about modern American Jewish history.
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Photos and Objects of American Jewish Life
From the National Museum of American Jewish History. Extensive collection of digitized materials the museum owns.
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International Workers Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO)
From Cornell University. Partial digitization of International Workers Order (IWO) archives and most especially those of its Jewish division, known as the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order (JPFO). In English and Yiddish, “this collection addresses issues ranging from the transformations of Jewish identity in the middle of the twentieth century under the pressures of immigration, revolutionism, and World War II.
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The Shapelll Roster:Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War
From the Library of Congress. “Announcing the first comprehensive digital archive of Jews who fought in the American Civil War."
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Soviet Jewry Movement Oral History Project
From Yeshiva University. Initiated by Glenn Richter, former National Coordinator of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, the collection preserves the memories of various activists in the movement to free Soviet Jews.
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German Refugee Rabbis in the United States, 1933-1990
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen. “The innovative online research tool illuminates and traces the transnational biographies, migration paths and careers of over 230 German refugee rabbis, who fled Nazi Germany after 1933.”
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The Houston Jewish History Archive
From Rice University. Digitzed collections that include those of individuals, organizations, synagogues, books and cookbooks that tell the story of Jewish life in Greater Houston and South Texas.
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