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You can search for materials in the search boxes below, or scroll down to view a list of links to collection guides for all of our collections. If you are interested in viewing materials, contact the archivist at umja@umn.edu.
Archival collection guides: Use collection guides (or finding aids) that describe a collection of archival records, personal papers, or manuscripts to locate material for your research. The guide may be a brief summary or a detailed description and inventory. Visit FAQ page on how to navigate guides.
Libraries catalog: Explore the University of Minnesota Libraries catalog for information about rare and special books, periodicals, and other publications held by the UMJA Archives.
To search digitized content from UMJA, visit the UMedia UMJA page.
Collections are organized into the following lists:
- Institutional records
- Synagogue records and Rabbi personal papers
- Personal and family papers
- General and subject collections
Institutional records
- B'nai B'rith, Minot Lodge records
- B'nai Brith, Rochester Lodge records
- B'nai B'rith, Superior Lodge records
- Brandeis University National Women's Committee, Minneapolis-St. Paul chapter records
- Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery records
- Duluth Hebrew Institute records
- Excel Garment Manufacturing records
- Group Theater collection
- Hadassah, Duluth chapter records
- Hadassah, Grand Forks chapter records
- Hadassah, Minneapolis chapter records
- Hadassah, Sioux Falls chapter records
- Hadassah, St. Cloud chapter records
- Hadassah, St. Paul chapter records
- Hadassah, Upper Midwest Region records
- Hebrew Cemetery (Superior, Wisc.) records
- Hillcrest Country Club Women's Club records
- Hillel of the University of Minnesota records
- Interfaith Tea group records
- Jewish Community Center of Greater Minneapolis collection
- Jewish Community Relations Council records
- Jewish Community Relations Council / Anti-Defamation League Holocaust Oral History project
- Jewish Dating Service records
- Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis records
- Jewish Family Service of St. Paul records
- Jewish Fellowship Club records
- Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest records
- Jewish Vocational Service of Minneapolis records
- Jewish Vocational Service of St. Paul records
- Jewish War Veterans records
- Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary records
- Liberty Garment Manufacturing Company records
- Lincoln Del collection
- Lincoln Junior High School collection
- Mercury Club records
- Minneapolis Jewish Cemetery Association records
- Minneapolis Jewish Federation records
- Minnesota Jewish Group Home Inc. records
- Minnesota Rabbinical Association records
- Monarch Club records
- Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary records
- Mount Sinai Hospital records
- Mu Beta Chi Fraternity records
- National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Minneapolis section records
- National Council of Jewish Women, St. Paul section records
- New Jewish Agenda records
- Sholom Auxiliary records
- Sigma Alpha Sigma records
- Sigma Delta Tau scapbooks
- Sophie Wirth Camp scrapbooks
- St. Paul Jewish Community Center records
- Talmud Torah of St. Paul records
- Talmud Torah of Minneapolis records
- United Jewish Fund and Council of Saint Paul records
- Women's League for Conservative Judaism records
Synagogue records and Rabbi personal papers
- Adas Israel Congregation records
- Adath Jeshurun Congregation records
- Beth Jacob Congregation records
- B'nai Abraham (Virginia, Minn.) Synagogue records
- Fargo Hebrew Congregation records
- Gedaliah Leib Congregation records
- Kenesseth Israel Congregation records
- Minnesota Synagogues collection
- Mount Zion Temple Oral History records
- Mount Zion Temple records
- Mount Zion (Sioux Falls, SD) Congregation records
- Rabbi Bernard Raskas papers
- Rabbi Harold H. Gordon papers
- Rabbi Kassel Abelson papers
- Rabbi Moses B. Sachs papers
- Rabbi Stacy Offner papers
- Rabbi Sylvan Kamens eulogies
- Shir Tikvah records
- Temple Beth El (Superior, Wisc.) records
- Temple Israel records
Personal and family papers
- Abe Sperling papers
- Alan Rich papers
- Amos S. Deinard papers
- Berman Family papers
- Bonnie Heller papers
- Burton Burnstein papers
- Burton Rudolph papers
- Charles Frisch collection
- Clare Schwartz papers
- David and Genia Levi papers
- David and Tessy Oxman papers
- David Doepel photograph collection
- Dorf/Press/Arnovich Family Research papers
- Doroshow Gottleib collection
- Dorr Family collection
- Dutch and Naomi Kastenbaum papers
- Etheldoris Grais papers
- Etta Fay Orkin papers
- Evelyn Smith papers
- Fannie Schanfield papers
- Firestone/Brin family papers
- Flori Loew papers
- Frank and Arthur Eisenberg papers
- Frank and Freda Schochet papers
- Fremland Family papers
- Gary Berman clippings collection
- Gary Filerman papers
- Gene Rosenblum collection
- Hanovich Family scrapbooks
- Harold and Zelda Goldenberg Family papers
- Harold Smith papers
- Harry Lerner papers
- Harry Rosenthal papers
- Helen and Sam Ziff papers
- Hiram Z. Mendow papers
- Jack Mackay papers
- Jack Pink papers
- Jack Sinykin papers
- Jeff Norman research papers
- Jerry Weinberg papers
- Jewish Historical Project of North Dakota records
- Joseph Zimbrolt photographs
- Julius Segal papers
- Kaner Family papers
- Karon family papers
- Lazarus Family papers
- Leonard (Butch) Levy papers
- Leo Gross collection
- Lois Devitt papers
- Louis Lerman papers
- Maddy Braufman papers
- Marilyn Chiat papers
- Marvin Pertzik papers
- Mary Wilensky papers
- Molly Ehrlich Tyler collection on Jewish women's service during World War II
- Molly Friedman papers
- Nina Samuels papers
- Paulette Fink papers
- Project to Document Early Jewish Settlers in Minnesota records
- Resort Discrimination collection
- Rhoda Lewin papers
- Richard Harris papers
- Roslyn Joseph Steinfeldt papers
- Roz Baker papers
- Ruth Davis collection on Jewish Girl Scouts
- Ruth Peilen collection
- Samuel Schwartz papers
- Samuel Sloane papers
- Sher Family research papers
- Sidney Cohen papers
- Sidney Schok papers
- Sophie Teener papers
- Tankenoff Family papers
- Weiss Family papers
- William Hoffman papers
General and subject collections
- Black/Jewish Relations research collection
- Independent Researchers' papers
- Jewish Camping collection
- Jewish Cookbook collection
- Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest media collection
- Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest newsletter collection
- Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest Oral History collection
- Jewish Population Studies collection
- Jews in Northern Minnesota collection
- North and South Dakota collection
- Sharron and Oren Steinfeldt Photography collection -- to view photographs from this collection that have been digitized, visit UMJA's UMedia page
- Urban Exodus: The St. Louis Park Oral History Project records
- Yearbook collection