Library Guides: EDEL 306: Histories, Heritage & Equity : Jewish/Jewish American Cultures

Jewish/Jewish American Cultures

Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
Primary sources designed to explore the history of Jewish communities in America, from the communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture to Jewish involvement in the political life of American society as a whole.
Jewish Studies Source
Multidisciplinary index for the study of Jewish civilization from its historical origins to the present.

Jewish American Heritage Month
Smithsonian American Jewish Historical Society
From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
From Haven to Home is 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
American Jewish Archives
The AJA contains over 10 million pages of documents, manuscripts, genealogical materials, as well as thousands of audiovisual recordings, photographs, microfilm, and digital collections. The AJA online catalog is the gateway to this vast collection of primary source material detailing the history of the Jewish experience in the Americas.