Susan Hoffman
Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
320 Elmer L. Anderson Library
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-0192
Email: s-hoff@umn.edu
web: http://www.jhsum.org
The holdings at the UMJA represent the largest and most important collections of the JHSUM. Included are the records of the St. Paul and Minneapolis Jewish Federations, Community Centers, Talmud Torahs, the Jewish Vocational Service, Jewish Community Relations Council, Hillel, as well as various synagogue records, and records of the Minnesota Rabbinical Association and women's organizations such as Hadassah, National Council of Jewish Women, Mount Sinai Hospital Women's Auxiliary. Included, as well, is material collected by individuals about early Jewish settlement and life in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, out-state Minnesota and North and South Dakota. There are inventories for each collection to aid researchers.
Photo:Talmud Torah Alumni Association football team, 1920.
"There is no team that can stack up with our present one."
Alumni Association News, August 1929.
Together the collections chronicle the activities of Jews in creating and building ethnic/religious communities and self-defense organizations, as well as their efforts to promote social welfare in the larger community. The materials at the UMJA at present consist of paper records including board and committee minutes, programs annual reports financial records, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, research reports, and in some instances, material from national organizations that help the researcher understand why certain projects were undertaken. With minor exceptions, all are in English. If no size is indicated, the collection is less than a box.
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JHSUM Database
Archival Collections
Institutional Holdings
Organizational Holdings
Women in World War II Database
Personal Holdings
Regional Holdings
Minnesota Settlers Project Database
North Dakota Catalog Database
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest Database
This database contains all the collection of the Jewish Historical Society, whether they contain one page or sixty linear feet. The largest collections have inventory notes which are listed below.
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Archival Collections
The photography and oral history collections are available for use at the JHSUM offices in Minneapolis, not in Andersen Library with the remaining archival materials.
Sharron and Oren Steinfeldt Family Photography Collection
Oral History Collection
Institutional Holdings
Adath Jeshurun Congregation, Minneapolis (4 boxes)
Adath Jeshurun Synagogue, St. Paul
Bet Shalom Congregation, Minneapolis
Beth El Synagogue, Minneapolis
Beth El Women's League, Minneapolis (1 box)
B'nai Emet Synagogue, Minneapolis
Gedaliah Leib Synagogue, St. Paul
Herzl Camp
Hillel Foundation (4 boxes)
Jewish Community Center of St. Paul (3 boxes)
Jewish Organizations Misc. Box 21
Jewish Organizations Misc. Box 26
Jewish Community Center of Minneapolis (2 boxes)
Jewish Home for the Aged of the Upper Midwest
Jewish Family Service of St. Paul (3 boxes)
Jewish Vocational Service of St. Paul (3 boxes)
Kenesseth Israel Congregation Minneapolis (2 boxes)
Minneapolis Jewish Federation (34 boxes)
Mount Zion Temple, St. Paul (12 boxes)
Sholom Home, Inc (Home for Aged)
Sons of Abraham Synagogue, St. Paul
Sons of Moses Synagogue, St. Paul
St. Paul United Jewish Fund and Council (9 boxes)
Talmud Torah of St. Paul (2 boxes)
Talmud Torah of Minneapolis (4 boxes)
Synagogues Misc. Box 19 contains info on:
Temple of Aaron, St. Paul (7 boxes)
Temple Israel, Minneapolis (3 boxes)
United Jewish Fund of St. Paul
Organizational Holdings
B'nai Brith
Hadassah, Minneapolis chapter (2 boxes)
Hadassah, St. Paul chapter (5 boxes)
Hadassah, Upper Midwest Region (2 boxes)
Habonim
Industrial Removal Office (copied from AJHS)
Minnesota Rabbinical Association (2 boxes)
Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary (9 boxes)
National Council of Jewish Women, St. Paul Section (6 boxes)
National Council of Jewish Women, Minneapolis Section. (10 boxes)
Sons of Abraham cemetery
Soviet Jewry Container List
Soviet Jewry Scope and Content
Theodore Herzl Society
We Rolled Up our Sleeves Synopsis
Workmen's Loan Association, St. Paul
Women in World War II
This database contains materials pertaining to the over one hundred Jewish women from the Upper Midwest who served in World War 11.
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Zionist Organization of America, Minneapolis District
Personal Holdings
Calof, Rachel
Calof, Meier
Deinard, Amos (early Mpls Jewish families) (2 boxes)
Goldfine family, Duluth
Harris, Diane (1 box)
Peilen, Ruth (1 box)
Rosenblum, Gene (early St. Paul Jewish families) (2 boxes)
Raskas, Rabbi Bernard
Sanders, Ida
Silberstein family, Duluth
Wolk, Helen (1 box)
Regional Holdings
Outstate Minnesota
Minnesota Settlers Project
In the fall of 1980 Dr. Marilyn Chiat began research on the material culture of Minnesota's early Jewish settlers: synagogues, cemeteries and ceremonial and folk art, focussing on the time period 1881-1924. more...
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Southern Minnesota
Rochester Box 37
Southern Mn Box 52
Duluth/Superior
Duluth Box 113
Duluth Box 115
Duluth Box 23
Duluth Box 72
Duluth-Superior Box 85a
Temple Beth-El, Superior, WI
Iron Range
Iron Range Box 1
Iron Range Box 2
North and South Dakota
Ackerman Family South Dakota Collection
Dakotas Box 119
Dakotas Box 34
North Dakota Geller Inventory
North Dakota Geller Place Names
North Dakota Catalog
North Dakota database was created for the Jewish Historical Project of North Dakota, which was incorporated in 1978 to collect data about Jews who settled in North Dakota. The project was abandoned after the death of one of the founders, and in 1992 the material was donated to the Jewish Historical Society. The collection is rich in reminiscences of Jewish homesteaders, and it has material on communities that once held (relatively) large numbers of Jews. The database has been arranged in several ways such as by family names so that it will be of value to genealogists.
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