Jewish Studies Resources: Primary Sources

Documents cover a broad range of topics. Includes the following collections:
• Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons
• Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress
• Franklin D. Roosevelt and Race Relations, 1933-1945
• German Anti-Semitic Propaganda, 1909-1941
• Holocaust and Concentration Camp Trials
• Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West's Response to Jewish Emigration, 1938-1947
• The Jewish Question: Records from the Berlin Document Center
• Jewish Underground Resistance
• Nuremburg Laws and Nazi Annulment of German Jewish Nationality
• Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950
• Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement
• Testaments to the Holocaust
• U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950
• "We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death:" Freedom Riders in the South, 1961

Primary source materials chart the Jewish Diaspora from the earliest settlements in 1654 to European arrivals in the early 20th Century, and offer insight into the everyday lives of the American Jewish population. Explores the communal & social aspects of Jewish identity and culture, and traces Jewish involvement in the political life of American society as a whole.

Provides access to digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and other primary source materials from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections. Includes:
• Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle - NAACP Papers (1909 - 1972): Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and The NAACP's Major Campaigns; Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records, and Organizational Records and Personal Papers.
• Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War - Slavery in Antebellum Southern Industries, 1700-1896; Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915: Plantations Records.

Provides access to historical newspapers including the following collections:
• African American Newspapers
• American County Histories
• The Civil War Collection
• Reconstruction of Southern States
• South Carolina Newspapers
• The Virginia Gazette