Please note: The Center will be closed for a private event on Tuesday, October 15. The Reading Room & Genealogy Institute will be open.

Welcome to the Center for Jewish History

Home to five distinguished partner organizations

The largest and most comprehensive archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel

Center for Jewish History and partner collections span five thousand years, with tens of millions of archival documents (in dozens of languages and alphabet systems), more than 500,000 volumes, as well as thousands of artworks, textiles, ritual objects, recordings, films, and photographs. The Center's experts are leaders in unlocking archival material for a wide audience through the latest practices in digitization, library science, and public education. As one of the world's foremost research institutions, the Center offers academic fellowships, symposia, conferences and lectures as well as a wide array of cultural, educational and genealogy programs for the public. Please visit the Center, search our collections online and join our Email List.

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American Jewish Historical Society

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American Sephardi Federation

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Leo Baeck
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Yeshiva University Museum

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YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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