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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.
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.
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
- 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 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
- 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
- Doroshow Gottleib photographs
- Dorf/Press/Arnovich Family Research papers
- 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
- Jerry Weinberg papers
- Jewish Historical Project of North Dakota records
- Julius Segal papers
- Kaplan Family papers
- Karon family papers
- Leonard (Butch) Levy papers
- Lazarus Family papers
- Leo Gross collection
- Lois Devitt papers
- Louis Lerman papers
- Maddy Braufman papers
- Marilyn Chiat papers
- Mary Wilensky papers
- Molly Ehrlich Tyler collection on Jewish women's service during World War II
- Molly Friedman 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 Oral History collection
- Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest media collection
- Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest newsletter collection
- Jewish Population Studies collection
- Jews in Northern Minnesota collection
- North and South Dakota collection
- Sharron and Oren Steinfeldt Photography collection
- Urban Exodus: The St. Louis Park Oral History Project records
- Yearbook collection