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Center for Jewish History

The American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are all housed at The Center for Jewish History. Together, the archival collections held by our partner institutions at the Center for Jewish History constitute the world's most comprehensive documentation of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel with more than seven linear miles of papers, publications, recordings, artifacts, artworks, photographs, and over 145 terabytes of digitized materials.
archives.cjh.org offers centralized access to the description of over 5,600 archival collections housed at the Center for Jewish History, across all of our partners' archival holdings, including essential information such as the size, date range, subject coverage, access restrictions, and arrangement of the collection. Each collection typically includes a historical or biographical note, scope and content note, and, when available, an inventory of boxes, folders, or items. Many archival collections have been partially or completely digitized. Digitized material can be viewed online through links found in a collection. Physical collections that have not yet been digitized can be viewed by visiting our shared Lillian Goldman Reading Room.