American Jewish History
![Portrait of Isaac and Jette Levison by J. Eberhart, 1857 [76.28]](http://www.magnes.org/sites/www.magnes.org/files/images/4710450354_fa4eff7058.thumbnail.jpg "Portrait of Isaac and Jette Levison by J. Eberhart, 1857 [76.28]")
The most important archival holdings documenting the history of the Jews in America are:
Stanford University – Judaica and Hebraica Collections
Overview: Scope of the Collections
Academic Consortium at the Jewish Endowment Fund
The Academic Consortium brings faculty and graduate students in the field of Jewish Studies together with their peers at other Bay Area institutions, providing intellectual exchang
Encyclopaedia Judaica (UC Berkeley access only)
Online version of the 22-volume Encyclopedia Judaica.
Otzar ha-chokhmah (UC Berkeley access only)
Otzar ha-chokhmah (אוצר החכמה) is an online database containing more than 45,000 full-text titles in a wide range of fields of Judaic Studies from ancient to modern: Bible and it
Index to Hebrew Periodicals (UC Berkeley access only)
Indexes over 300 journals and newsletters covering a variety of subjects with an emphasis on Judaica, literature, education, arts, law and current Israel affairs (politics and society).
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies sponsors nearly seventy courses a year in Jewish studies at UCLA, as wel
Jewish Music Research Center – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Jewish Music Research Center (JMRC) is an academic institution fully dedicated to the documentation, research and publication of scholarly materials about Jewish mus
Center for Jewish Art – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
For nearly thirty years the Center for Jewish Art, a research institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has carried out a comprehensive documentation program of the visual cultural heritage