Jewish American Heritage Month proclamations & legislation
PSN Jewish-American primary source sets and teaching resources
- Happy Hanukkah
- Passover
- Religious Freedom
- Touro Synagogue
- Aaron Copland
- Gertrude Stein
- Sophie Tucker
- Featured Source: Leonard Bernstein illustrated letter guided primary source analysis activities
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
- 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
Speak Your Mind