Jewish Studies

An electronic repository of digitized American Jewish periodicals (American Jewish Historical Society)

Filled with more than a million documents and hundreds of movies and radio shows, the New York-based American Jewish Committee Archives house an extraordinary range of resources on the past century of American Jewish history.

The American Jewish Historical Society provides access to more than 20 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and artifacts that reflect the history of the Jewish presence in the United States from 1654 to the present.

The American Jewish Historical Society has established its Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement to help assure that the story of the role played by Americans of all faiths in that Movement will be collected and preserved so that future generations will be familiar with, and inspired by, their achievements.

The Berman Jewish DataBank @ The Jewish Federations of North America offers open access to hundreds of quantitative studies of North American Jewry.

Open access to a growing library of 20,000+ policy-relevant Jewish communal documents from leading authors, journals, and organizations.

The Center Digital Collections provides access to the digital assets of the Center for Jewish History and its five partner organizations, the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The combined collections of the five partners constitute one of the most important resources for the documentation and exploration of the Jewish experience.

A Library of Congress exhibition marking 350 years of Jewish life in America. The exhibition features more than two hundred treasures of American Judaica from the collections of the Library of Congress, augmented by a selection of important loans from other cooperating cultural institutions.

The Penn Libraries have launched this new website featuring access to the personal papers and publications of Isaac Leeser, widely regarded as the foremost American Jewish leader in antebellum America

Provided by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Cincinnati, OH)

"Since 1998, Jewish-History.com has provided full digital text of primary historical documents previously unavailable to the general public except in historical society archives or on reels of microfilm."

A description of Jewish-English including a helpful bibliography.

100 Pamphlets about Jewish life in the United States published between 1725-1900 from the Jewish Theological Seminary

Digital images and catalog records of 259 American newspapers from the Abraham and Deborah Karp Collection of Early American Judaica, 1782-1898 from the Jewish Theological Seminary

Composed of The Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), The American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962) and The Jewish Chronicle (1962-Present) (Carnegie Mellon University)

The Archives of the Center for Jewish Culture is a collection of manuscript records documenting social and philanthropic organizations, personal memorabilia, photographs, family documents and oral histories that weave a tale of Jewish immigration to the Fall River and New Bedford area from the turn of the 19th century through the 20th.

Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington

The archive of Henry Morais (1860-1935), son of the illustrious Jewish leader Sabato Morais, who was a rabbi as well as a journalist. Much of the archive has been digitized.

The Interactive Museum of Jewish Montreal is a new online portal giving Canadian natives and tourists the chance to browse historic Jewish sites with the click of a mouse.

The NCJW Oral History Project provides a compelling insight into the growth of an important American Jewish community and the contributions made by the people interviewed. Over a span of 32 years, the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pittsburgh Section, conducted more than 500 oral history interviews focused on the Jewish community – the history, the traditions, the contributions – of its members.

University of Arizona