The mission of the American Jewish Historical Society is "to foster awareness and appreciation of the American Jewish past and to serve as a national scholarly resource for research through the collection, preservation and dissemination of materials relating to American Jewish history." Constituting the oldest ethnic historical organization in the United States, the Society provides detailed...
"Dedicated to 19th Century Jewish-American history, poetry and fiction, polemics and philosophy," this site provides an omnibus of historical materials relating to Jewish contributions to nineteenth-century American history with an emphasis upon the settlement of the West and the Civil War. Primary documents here include letters, memoirs, and slavery polemics of both Union and Confederate...