Jewish Studies Library Guide

The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger was a weekly Jewish magazine published in New York City. This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text of every available issue from 1857 to 1922.

The American Israelite is an English-language Jewish newspaper published weekly in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1854 as The Israelite and assuming its present name in 1874, it is the longest-running English-language Jewish newspaper still published in the United States. This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text of every available issue from 1854 to 1874.

Ethnic American Newspapers features more than 130 fully searchable newspapers in 10 languages from 25 states U.S states. It includes English-language Jewish publications (Jewish Journal, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Messenger) and Yiddish or Yiddish bi- and tri-lingual papers (Arbeiter Zeitung Fur Worker, Morgenstern, Idisher Zhurnal), with strengths in the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th century.

Historical Jewish Press provides access to Jewish newspapers published around the world from the eighteenth century onwards. It includes Jewish newspapers in Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Yiddish.

The Jewish Exponent is a weekly newspaper of the Jewish community of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the second-oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the United States. This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text of every available issue from 1887 to 1990.

The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine as The Palestine Post. This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text of every available issue from the newspaper's founding in 1932 through 2008.

The Jewish Advocate was a weekly Jewish newspaper serving Greater Boston and the New England area. This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text of every available issue from 1905 to 1990.

Advanced search page to access all ProQuest News & Newspaper databases available through Tulane University Libraries. Includes four Jewish-American and one British Mandate of Palestine/Israeli newspaper: The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857-1922); The American Israelite‎ (1854-2000); The Jewish Advocate‎ (1905-1990); The Jewish Exponent‎ (1887-1990); and The Jerusalem Post (1932-2008).

The American Jewish Congress (AJC) is one of the most prominent organizations dedicated to advocating for the interests of Jews in the U.S. and abroad. AJC Records spans 1915-2009, documenting the organization's activities relating to civil rights, the fight against discrimination and antisemitism, support for the State of Israel, and more. This module provides digital access to the first seven series of the AJC collection housed at the American Jewish Historical Society: I) History; II) Administrative Committee; III) Joint Administrative and Executive Committee; IV) Executive Committee; V) Governing Council; VI) National Biennial Conventions; and VII) Executive Directors. AJC Records are part of ProQuest's History Vault's "Workers, Labor Unions, Progressives, and Radicals" Collection.

The Berman Archive—formerly the Berman Jewish Policy Archive—documents American Jewish communities. it provides open access to digital artifacts from 1900 to the present, with strengths in “gray literature"--material produced outside traditional academic and commercial spheres, especially by Jewish organizations.

Jewish Life in America provides a window onto Jewish communities in America from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to today. It allows you to search and explore six major organizational collections and twenty-four collections of personal papers from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.

Sourced from Amistad Research Center, this primary source collections features content from the Race Relations Department, based at Fisk University from 1943-1970, that investigated problem areas in race relations and developed methods for educating communities and preventing conflict. Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.

The Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies of first-hand experiences of the Nazi Holocaust, comprising over 12,000 recorded hours of videotape. Testimonies were produced in cooperation with thirty-six affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel, and were recorded in the preferred language of the speaker. Tulane University affiliates have been graciously offered access to this resource. Please log in by creating an account using your Tulane email.

This collection provides unique documents on the investigation and prosecution of war crimes committed by Nazi concentration camp commandants and camp personnel. Documents include: correspondence; trial records and transcripts; investigatory material, such as interrogation reports and trial exhibits; clemency petitions and reviews; photographs of atrocities; newspaper clippings; and pamphlets. Many concentration (and later extermination) camps and sub-camps are represented in this collection, including Mauthausen, Dachau, Belsen-Bergen, Buchenwald, Treblinka, Sobibor, sub-camp Gros-Raming, sub-camp Gusen I, sub-camp Ebensee, and others.

The Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR) was organized in London in August 1938 as a result of the Evian Conference of July 1938, which had been called by President Roosevelt to consider the problem of racial, religious, and political refugees from central Europe.

This online archive delivers essential primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. It covers the politics and administration of the post war refugee crisis in Europe well as the day-to-day survival of the refugees themselves.

Contains documentary evidence collected in several different programs: the eyewitness accounts which were collected before, during and after the Second World War, from people fleeing the Nazi oppression, a large collection of photographs of pre-war Jewish life, the activities of the Nazis, and the ghettoes and camps, a collection of postcards of synagogues in Germany and eastern Europe, most since destroyed, a unique collection of Nazi propaganda publications including a large collection of ‘educational’ children’s’ books, and the card index of biographical details of prominent figures in Nazi Germany, many with portrait photographs. Pamphlets, bulletins and journals published by the Wiener Library to record and disseminate the research of the Institute are also included. 75% of the content is written in German.

This publication provides a wealth of unique correspondence, reports and analyses, memos of conversations, and personal interviews exploring such themes U.S.-Vatican relations, Vatican’s role in World War II, Jewish refugees, Italian anti-Jewish laws during the papacy of Pius XII, and the pope’s personal knowledge of the treatment of European Jews.

Border and Migration Studies Online is a collection of text, video, and images organized around fundamental themes associated with border and migration issues. It includes primary and secondary source materials for more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including Israel.

British government Confidential Print files, issued by the Foreign and Colonial Offices, cover the Middle East from Egypt to Afghanistan for the period from 1839-1969.

Contains contemporary accounts and follow the detailed exchanges that shaped British foreign policy from the origins of the First World War and beyond.

Offers original source material from the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through the Black September war of 1970-1971.