Berman Archive at Stanford

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The Berman Archive documents American Jewish Communities. We’re the largest archive of the printed material of communal American Jewish life. Website: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/ Documensch Daily: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/documensch

"An archive, if you're not careful, can just sit on the other side of a wall. That's the last thing any of us want."

—Gemma R. Birnbaum
Executive Director, AJHS

Graphic for All We Have Standing Between Us featuring a Jewish man protesting with Black Americans in a moment that appears to be from the Civil Rights protest era

Graphic reading: Juneteenth 2026 Resource List

"How do we actually listen to the other before we put our arguments forward?"

Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh

Pull quote that reads: “I believe that educating students and teachers about who Jews are, and our multiple roles in U.S. history, is one way to redress the ignorance that fuels antisemitism.”

Pull quote from article: “Nexus has sharpened its focus on the dangers posed to Jewish safety by authoritarianism and its attendant instrumentalization of antisemitism.”

- Jonathan Jacoby

Screenshot of the linked essay about Adrienne Rich

Screenshot of the American Jewish Committee Bulletin from Nov 2, 1947

Graphic promoting event, Art from the Archive, Oct 28 at Stanford University

Cover of Perspectives 1952: "The Jew at College"

Screenshot of the first page of the 1993 issue of Sh'ma dedicated to the question of interfaith marriage

Newpaper spread from the J Weekly with our interview with Lisa Kay Solomon

Screenshot of Sh'ma article from October 19, 1973.Article text can be found at link.

Imagr of the first page of an essay from the 1940 Contemporary Jewish Record exploring the history of Jews in Mexico from the 16th Century to 1940.

Lee Levinger quote: "Antisemitism can be attacked or presented only by the defense of democracy against facism, the protection of all minorities here and abroad."

1932 Jewish Social Service Quarterly page with the headline: "A Business Man Looks at the Depression"

Cover of A Message to American Jewry by Rabbi Moses Miller

Photo of a young man eating a cookie in the shape of a Jewish Star

Quote reads: "in its initial iteration in the Talmud, the holiday celebrated not just ecological sustainability, but the economic sustainability of the society. This day constituted an established time to determine the annual contribution of fruit to tithe, which in early Jewish society provided necessary sustenance for the religious classes and the poor."