Additional Research Collections

Additional Research Collections

General American Jewish History

• The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
• Jewish History Collections at the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago Libraries
• Jewish Theological Seminary Library Special Collections
  Archival collections include papers representing the history American Jewry, and the history of the Conservative Jewish Movement during the 20th century; also includes significant Jewish music archives.
• Judaica Sources in the Archival and Special Collections, Brandeis University Library & Technology Services
  Addresses American Jewish History about 8 paragraphs in.
• Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Penn Libraries, the University of Pennsylvania
• The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley
  The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life includes diverse archival materials documenting Jews in the Global Diaspora and the American West.
• New York Public Library-Dorot Jewish Division
• Taube-Baron Collection of Jewish History and Culture at the Stanford University Libraries

Intellectual, Cultural, and Political Collections

• The Berman Jewish Policy Archive at Stanford University
  The Berman Jewish Policy Archive collects the records of Jewish communal organizations, policy organizations, think tanks, and philanthropies.
• Jacques Derrida Papers, at Critical Theory Archive at the UC Irvine Libraries
• Jewish History Collection at the Hoover Institute Archives at Stanford University
  Jewish history materials cover such topics as: Russian Jewish authors, Jewish organizations and personalities active in the Russian revolutionary movement, Zionism and the creation of the state of Israel, the Holocaust and the persecution of Jews in World War II, and Jewish intellectuals in modern US society.
• Jewish Studies Collections at the Harry Ransom Center that the University of Texas at Austin
• Jewish Studies Subject Guide at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University
  Majority of materials cover American Jewish political and literary figures.

Organizational Archives

• The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives
  The organizational records of JDC—the overseas rescue, relief, and rehabilitation arm of the American Jewish community--document over 100 years of work in over 90 countries.
• American Jewish Committee Archives

Labor History

• The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Records at the Kheel Center, Catherwood Library, Cornell University Library
  See also: https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/collections-overview.
• The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at the NYU Libraries

Religious and Theological Collections

• Ira & Judith Kaplan Eisenstein Reconstructionist Archives
• Jewish Theological Seminary Library Special Collections
  Archival collections include papers representing the history American Jewry, and the history of the Conservative Jewish Movement during the 20th century; also includes significant Jewish music archives.

Women's History

• Jewish Feminist Collections, Archival and Special Collections, Brandeis University Library & Technology Services
• Jewish Women in Iowa Project at the Iowa Women’s Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries
  Still collecting materials.

LGBT History

• Twice Blessed Collection at the ONE Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries
  Materials documenting the Jewish lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender experience, circa 1966-2000, collected by the Jewish Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Archives, founded and operated by Johnny Abush.

Music Collections

• American Society for Jewish Music Collections
• Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive
• Jewish Theological Seminary Library Special Collections
  Archival collections include papers representing the history American Jewry, and the history of the Conservative Jewish Movement during the 20th century; also includes significant Jewish music archives.
• Kay Kaufman Shelemay Syrian-Jewish Collection, 1984-1993 at the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard Library, Harvard University
  Collection contains materials regarding Syrian Jewish culture in Brooklyn, and in North Jersey.
• Milken Archive of American Jewish Music

Canadian Jewish History

• Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
• The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network
  The Canadian Jewish Heritage Netowrk brings together the databases and digitized archival materials of the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives, the Jewish Public Library Archives of Montreal, the Montreal Holocaust Museum, the Ottawa Jewish Archives, the Saint John Jewish Historical Museum, the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives, and The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Archives.
• Jewish Archives and Historical Society of Edmonton and Northern Alberta
• The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada
• Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta
• Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia, Administered by Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia
• Jewish Public Library of Montreal
• Ottawa Jewish Archives

New England Jewish History

• The Jewish Heritage Center, with the American Jewish Historical Society–New England Archives
• The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Archives
• Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven
• Jewish Historical Society of Lower Fairfield County
• Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts
• Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association Library and Archives
• Rhode Island Jewish Historical Notes, 1954-2008 at the Rhode Island Department of State Archives

Mid-Atlantic Jewish History

• Brooklyn Jewish Archival Material at the Othmer Library, Brooklyn Historical Society
• Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey
• Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington
• The Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey
• Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey
• Jewish History Collections at The New Jersey Historical Society
• Jewish Resources at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
• Kay Kaufman Shelemay Syrian-Jewish Collection, 1984-1993 at the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard Library, Harvard University
  Collection contains materials regarding Syrian Jewish culture in Brooklyn, and in North Jersey.
• Philadelphia Jewish Archives Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries
• Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
  Holds materials relating to the history of Jews and Jewish communities in Western Pennsylvania.
• Safe Haven Collection via the New York Heritage Digital Collections
  Archives of the WWII Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter, which housed almost 1,000 Jewish refugees.

Southeastern Jewish History

• The Carolyn Gray LeMaster Arkansas Jewish History Collection at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
• Charlotte Jewish Historical Society Records at the J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, at UNC Charlotte
• The Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
• Jewish Heritage Collections at the Florida Department of State Division of Library and Information Services
• Jewish Heritage Collection, including the archives of the Southern Jewish Historical Society, at the Special Collections, Addlestone Library, College of Charleston
• Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina records, 1750-2014 at the Duke University Libraries
• Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina
• Jewish History Collections at the Tulane University Archives and Special Collections
• Jewish History in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections at the Louisiana State University Special Collections Library
• Jewish Life in Western North Carolina Collections Special Collections at Ramsey Library Special Collections, at UNC Asheville

Midwestern Jewish History

• Archives of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee
• Chicago Jewish Archives
• Chicago Jewish Historical Society
• Columbus Jewish Historical Society
• Indiana Jewish Historical Society Archives at the Indiana Historical Society
• Jewish-Americans in Minnesota Collection at the Gale Family Library, Minnesota Historical Society
• The Jewish American Archives at the Western Reserve Historical Society
  These collections document the history of the Jewish community of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.
• Jewish American Collections at the State Historical Society of Missouri
• The Jewish Community Archives of Greater Kansas City at the State Historical Society of Missouri
• Jewish Community Centers of Chicago records, 1904-1985 at the Chicago History Museum
• Jewish Historical Society of Michigan
• Jewish History and Community Collections at the Minnesota Historical Society
• Jewish History Collections at the Kansas Historical Society
• Jewish Women in Iowa Project at the Iowa Women’s Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries
  Still collecting materials.
• Michiana Jewish Historical Society
• Nebraska Jewish Historical Society
• Ozarks Jewish Archives Collection at the Special Collections and Archives at the Duane G. Meyer Library at Missouri State University
• Upper Midwest Jewish Archives, Special Collections, Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota Libraries
  Wisconsin Jewish Archives Collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

Southwestern Jewish History

• Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives at the University of Arizona
• Dallas Jewish Historical Society
• The Jewish Archival Collection in the Southwest Collection in the Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University
• New Mexico Jewish Historical Society Collection at the New Mexico State Archives
  Enter "1988-052" into the Collection Number field-option three in the Precision Search box.
• The Fort Worth Jewish History Collection, 1903-1992 at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
  See also: http://www.cah.utexas.edu/research/subject_guides/subject_guide_jewish.php.
• South Texas Jewish Heritage Collection at the Special Collections and Archives of Texas A&M International University
• Texas Jewish Historical Society Records, 1824-2015 at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Western Jewish History

• Beck Archives of Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society
• The Jewish Historical Society of San Diego Archives
• Harriet Rochlin Collection of Western Jewish History at the UCLA Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
• The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley
  The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life includes diverse archival materials documenting Jews in the Global Diaspora and the American West.
• Western States Jewish History Archive, 1800-2004 at the UCLA Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
• Jewish American Collections on Archives West
  Archives West provides access to the catalogs of such repositories as the University of Washington Libraries, the Oregon Historical Society, the Montana Historical Society, the University of Oregon Libraries, the Oregon State University Libraries, the Washington State University Libraries, the University of Idaho Library, the Lewis & Clark College Special Collections, and the Seattle Municipal Archives.
• The Washington State Jewish Archives at the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections

Museums of Interest

• Alaska Jewish Museum
• The Breman Museum
• The Contemporary Jewish Museum
• The Gomez Mill House
• The Jewish Museum
• The Jewish History Museum and the Holocaust History Center
• Jewish Museum Milwaukee
• Jewish Museum of Maryland
• Los Angeles Museum of The Holocaust
• Maine Jewish Museum
• Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
• The Mizel Museum
• Museum at Eldridge Street
• The Museum of Jewish Heritage
• Museum of the Jewish People-Beit Hatfutsot
• Museum of Tolerance
• The National Museum of American Jewish History
• The National Museum of American Jewish Military History
• Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
• The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art
• San Diego Center for Jewish Culture Gotthelf Art Gallery
• The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art
• Skirball Cultural Center
• Skirball Museum in Cincinnati
• Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum 
• The Tenement Museum
• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Other Resources

• The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) Archive
  Maintains records of articles as far back as 1923.
• The Jewish Women's Archive

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