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The Berman Archive documents American Jewish Communities. We’re the largest archive of the printed material of communal American Jewish life.

Website: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/
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In the Berman Archive: Read our recent interview with JIMENA executive director Sarah Levin: bermanarchive.stanford.edu/understandin...
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Today we launch the Documensch Daily, a one-stop shop for all the research and news about American Jews. Instead of sifting through your inbox or a bunch of journals, you can satisfy all your Jewish research needs and curiosities by coming here:

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October 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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In the archive: Read this 1997 essay about the influences and inspirations for Adrienne Rich's poetry and her impact on Jewish and LGBT culture: exhibits.stanford.edu/bermanarchiv...
Screenshot of the linked essay about Adrienne Rich
October 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Looking in the Berman Archive, we didn't find much on Jewish Operas but we did find a 1947 AJC newsletter featuring Jews IN an opera house for a meeting. We'll take it.

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Screenshot of the American Jewish Committee Bulletin from Nov 2, 1947
September 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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We hold a 1983 article adressing a shift towards Jewish day schools. Louis Schwartzman asks, "Do public school students have greater opportunity to grow up understanding the complexities of our society and the sophistication of our multicultural community?"

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September 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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How have scholars and storytellers used archives to document and narrate Jewish experience?

Join us for a conversation at @stanfordtaube.bsky.social with Rachel Cockerell, author of Melting Point, a new book that engages with this question and so much more.

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Graphic promoting event, Art from the Archive, Oct 28 at Stanford University
September 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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🗃️ In the archive we have an interesting Hillel-funded report from 1952 studying the Jewish experience at Harvard. exhibits.stanford.edu/bermanarchiv...
Cover of Perspectives 1952: "The Jew at College"
August 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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In our archive we have the 1993 issue of Sh'ma which was dedicated to the question of interfaith marriage:

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Screenshot of the first page of the 1993 issue of Sh'ma dedicated to the question of interfaith marriage
August 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Nice to see our interview with Lisa Kay Solomon, Stanford's futurist in residence, reprinted in the J Weekly!

Read the full interview here: bermanarchive.stanford.edu/looking-forw...
Newpaper spread from the J Weekly with our interview with Lisa Kay Solomon
August 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Orthodox American Jewry has come a long way in this regard. Read this 2001 Moment Magazine article in our holdings about the Gay Orthodox Underground:

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August 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Melting Point by @rachelcockerell.bsky.social is a refreshing account of the Jewish experience traced from an idea of Zion, to a pilgrimage to Galveston Texas, to the theaters of New York City, and to Jewish family homes in London.

Read our interview here: bermanarchive.stanford.edu/the-past-spe...
August 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Read our interview with Lisa Kay Solomon, author, strategic foresight designer, and Designer in Residence and Lecturer at Stanford d.school. We discuss the connections between the American Jewish community and futures thinking.

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August 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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We don't have much on Jews and football in our archives but we did find this lovely 1973 article in Sh'ma by a Jewish chaplain for the Miami Dolphins football team.
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Screenshot of Sh'ma article from October 19, 1973.Article text can be found at link.
July 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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This Cinco de Mayo we’re thinking about all of our holdings that connect American Jewish institutions with Mexico. This essay from the 1940 Contemporary Jewish Record explores the history of Jews in Mexico from the 16th Century to 1940. exhibits.stanford.edu/bermanarchiv...
Imagr of the first page of an essay from the 1940 Contemporary Jewish Record exploring the history of Jews in Mexico from the 16th Century to 1940.
May 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Antisemitism is evergreen. Writing in 1936, Lee Levinger of B'nai B'rith noted "with amazement and horror the vast revival of anti-Semitism in our own day." The call to maintain democracy as key to the fight is all too relavant.

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Lee Levinger quote: "Antisemitism can be attacked or presented only by the defense of democracy against facism, the protection of all minorities here and abroad."
May 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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American Jews have always had a stake in immigration policy, as the Berman Archive’s holdings can attest. Case in point, this American Jewish Committee analysis of the hard fought and uneven American Immigration Act of 1990.

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May 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Spread the word! The Berman Archive at Stanford is looking for a consulting Digital Archivist to help expand our collections strategy.

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April 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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We're hiring a consulting Digital Archivist to help expand our collections strategy.

👉 Details here: lnkd.in/gT_b2yUk
April 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Sharing this 1932 holding from the Berman Archive for no particular reason: www.bjpa.org/search-resul...
1932 Jewish Social Service Quarterly page with the headline: "A Business Man Looks at the Depression"
April 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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In 1941, Rabbi Moses Miller delivered a grim Message to American Jewry, an exigent situational assessment of the predicament for Jews around the world during Hitlerism’s rise. Miller connects the fight against antisemitism to pro-labor and anti discrimination efforts. www.bjpa.org/search-resul...
Cover of A Message to American Jewry by Rabbi Moses Miller
April 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Religious freedom will be tested next month with a major Supreme Court case. We interviewed @rachellaser.bsky.social, CEO of @americansunited.bsky.social to learn about the case and its implications for Jews and all religious minorities in this country. bermanarchive.stanford.edu/church-state...
March 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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New Report: American Jews are Doing Great! bermanarchive.stanford.edu/new-report-a...
Photo of a young man eating a cookie in the shape of a Jewish Star
March 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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As Jews celebrate Tu BiShvat today, this 2009 artcicle in Sh'ma reminds us of the holiday's environmental and economic underpinnings: www.bjpa.org/search-resul...
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Quote reads: "in its initial iteration in the Talmud, the holiday celebrated not just ecological sustainability, but the economic sustainability of the society. This day constituted an established time to determine the annual contribution of fruit to tithe, which in early Jewish society provided necessary sustenance for the religious classes and the poor."
February 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM