Primary Source Spotlight: Jewish Resources

Last Updated on August 3, 2021

PSN Jewish-American primary source sets and teaching resources

• Happy Hanukkah
• Passover
• Religious Freedom
• Touro Synagogue
• Aaron Copland
• Gertrude Stein
• Sophie Tucker
• Guided Primary Source Analysis: Leonard Bernstein illustrated letter

Library collections

• The Hannah Arendt Papers
• Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
• Leonard Bernstein Collection
• The Aaron Copland Collection
• Felix Mendelssohn at the Library of Congress
• Yiddish American Popular Sheet Music
• Yiddish Playscripts

Jewish heritage month collections

• Select Jewish-American images
• More Jewish-American images
• Goldstein Foundation Collection–Prints and Drawings
• Prints, Photos and Manuscripts from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee World Digital Library
• Yiddish American popular songs
• Audio and video from the Library of Congress & beyond

Chronicling America historic newspapers

• The Jewish Herald Houston, Tex., 1908-1911
• The Jewish Monitor Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex., 1919-1921
• The Jewish South Richmond, Va., 1893-1899
• Select newspaper articles
  • “Condition of the Jews Today” New-York Daily Tribune, August 25, 1901
  • “Future of Judaism in America” The San Francisco Call, December 10, 1905
  • “The Jew in the United States” Dearborn Independent, June 5, 1920
  • “Jewish Idea in American Monetary Affairs” Dearborn Independent, June 18, 1921
  • “Part Played by the Hebrew in the History of the Nation and State” The Salt Lake Herald, November 19, 1905
  • “Some New Books – The Jewish Encyclopedia” The (New York) Sun, September 28, 1902
  • Topic: The Dreyfuss Affair
  • Topic: The Trial and Lynching of Leo Frank

Online exhibitions

• From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
• Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection 1912-1948
• Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom
• Scrolls from the Dead Sea
• Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress 1912–2012

Veterans history

• Jewish Veterans of World War II
• Story of the Century: My Afternoon with a Jewish American World War II Veteran Library of Congress blog May 18, 2017

Articles & special presentations

• Songs of the Zionist Movement in America
• Traditional Sephardic Music and Song
• Yiddish American popular songs 1895 to 1950

Library blog posts

• Celebrating Yiddish American Popular Song Library of Congress Blog May 24, 2017
• “A Dudele”: A Little Song for Jewish Heritage Month Folklife Today April 16, 2014
• Jewish American Heritage Month In Custodia Legis May 16, 2011
• Jewish American Heritage Month In Custodia Legis May 4, 2017
• Jewish American Heritage: A Surviving Text Library of Congress Blog May 1, 2014
• My Father, Leonard Bernstein Library of Congress Blog August 24, 2018
• Simon Sobeloff and Jewish Baltimore In Custodia Legis September 12, 2019
• Story of the Century: My Afternoon with a Jewish American World War II Veteran Library of Congress Blog May 18, 2017

Library webcasts

• A Bibliographer Encounters the Muses: Reflections on the Yiddish Theater and Its Legacy
• Breaking the Holocaust Silence: A Hidden Hasidic Text of 1947 and Elie Wiesel
• Haven to Home: An American Journey
• Hear O Israel: Yiddish-American Radio 1925-1955
• Herman Wouk
• Holy Moses! A Cultural History of the Ten Commandments in Modern America
• Irish and Jewish Influences on Vaudeville
• I Will Wake Dawn: Illuminated Psalms
• Jewish American Heritage Month Opening Ceremony
• The Jewish Book in America
• Jewish Life in Mr. Lincoln’s City
• Jews and Shoes
• Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community
• Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T.E. Lawrence, Aaronsohn and the Seeds of the Arab-Israel Conflict
  
• Mark Ozer: The Litvak Legacy 
• My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
• Quick to the Party: Southern Jews and the Americanization of Hanukkah
• Song of Songs
• Traditional Judaism or Reform
• What Stillness Illuminated