American Jewish Keywords

American Studies, as AMST-210 | Moodle site: Course
Wendy H. Bergoffen

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Reference

American Jewish Year Books (1899-2008)

Databases

    Statistics & Primary Sources

    • AC Archives & Special Collections
      Descriptions and contents of archival collections and manuscript holdings at Amherst
    • Jewish DataBank
      Open-access quantitative studies of North American Jews and Jewish communities, with a wide range of national, local and topical studies.
    • Pew Research Center on Religion & American Life
      Independent polling, research, media analysis, and publications on issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs in the U.S. and around the world.
    • Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies
      Multidisciplinary research center at Brandeis for the study of contemporary Jewish life, with freely available publications.
    • Center for Jewish History Digital Collections
      Rare books, children’s books, personal letters, official decrees, maps, memoirs, posters, photographs, scrapbooks, oral histories, finding aids, dissertations, and more from the CJH, the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
    • American Jewish Committee Archives
      More than a million documents, hundreds of movies and radio shows, oral histories, and more digitized resources on the past century of American Jewish history.
    • Internet Archive
      A non-profit library of digitized texts, many from university archives, including Amherst College.
    • Wayback Machine
      Websites saved over time
    • Hathi Trust Digital Library