A Quick Guide to Jewish Periodicals
Historical Jewish Periodicals Online
Title |
Language |
Dates |
Location |
Source |
| Aufbau | German | 1934-2004 | New York, NY | Internet Archive/Leo Baeck Institute |
| American Jewess | English | 1895-1899 | Chicago, IL | Jewish Women’s Archive |
| “Az men zukht, gefint men” (collection) | Yiddish | 1771-1962 | various | Indiana University - Bloomington |
| Compact Memory (collection) | German | 1768-1939 | Germany | Goethe University |
| Die Deborah | German | 1901-1902 | Cincinnati, OH | HathiTrust |
| Florida Jewish Newspapers (collection) | English | 1927- | Florida | University of Florida |
|
Forverts (see Historical Jewish Press for 1897-1948) |
Yiddish | 1999-present | New York, NY |
Forverts |
| Historical Jewish Press (collection) | English, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Judaeo-Spanish, Russian, Yiddish | 1843-1987 | various |
Historical Jewish Press |
| Jewish Community Chronicle | English | 1947-2000 | Long Beach, CA | California State Library - Long Beach |
| Jewish Post and Opinion | English | 1930-2005 | Indiana, Kentucky | Indiana University |
| Jewish Sentinel | English | 1911-1949 | Chicago | Illinois Digital Archives |
| Jewish Telegraphic Agency | English | 1926-present | New York, NY | Jewish Telegraphic Agency |
| Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project
(collection) |
English | 1895-1975 | Pittsburgh, PA | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Price Library of Judaica Anniversary Collection | Dutch, English, German, Hebrew, Spanish, Yiddish | various | various | University of Florida |
| ProQuest Historical Jewish Newspapers
(access at Library or remotely with Library card) |
English | 1857-2000 | various | ProQuest |
| Southern Israelite | English | 1929-1986 | Atlanta, GA | Georgia Historic Newspapers |
| Tsukunft | Yiddish | various | New York, NY | HathiTrust |
| Yidishe shprakh | Yiddish | 1941- | Vilnius, Lithuania (Wilno, Poland) /New York, NY | YIVO |
| YIVO Bleter | Yiddish | 1931- | Vilnius, Lithuania (Wilno, Poland) /New York, NY | YIVO |
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Contemporary Periodical Indexes
Name |
Language |
Date |
Scope |
Source |
| Ethnic NewsWatch
(available at Library or remotely with Library card) |
English | 1990-present | 36 periodicals | Ethnic NewsWatch/ProQuest |
| Index to Jewish Periodicals (available at Library) | English, | 1988-present | 200+ periodicals | Index to Jewish Periodicals/EBSCO |
| Index to Yiddish Periodicals | Yiddish | 1862- | 800 periodicals | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| RAMBI | various | 1966-present | 1,000+ sources | National Library of Israel |
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