Jewish Studies

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is a Jewish relief organization based in New York City that was established in 1914. You can browse their various collections online, including photographs, texts, and artifacts, or search across their database.

The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories explores Jewish life in Eastern Europe before, during and after World War II. The archive consists of nearly 400 interviews, conducted primarily in Yiddish, and mostly in small towns throughout Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. The interviews focus on language, religious customs and beliefs, songs, and Holocaust testimony and present a variety of perspectives on how ordinary Jews experienced the twentieth-century.

Hosted by Yale University, the Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies comprising 12,000 recorded hours of videotape.

The Jewish Women’s Archive is a national organization dedicated to collecting and promoting stories of Jewish women. This website is the world’s largest collection of information on Jewish women.

More than 900 interviews that are 1 to 2 hours in length. The interviews are life histories that cover the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.