Historical Jewish American Newspapers Online

For those of you who have Jewish ancestry in your family tree, there are lots of Jewish-American newspapers that have been published over the last hundred or so years that may help you find some information and stories about your ancestors.

Take a look at these sites and search away!

Listed are only those that are available online. As always, there are tons more available via microfilm and in original form via libraries and archives.
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Please note that most listed below are free and some require a subscription or a login from a university library. Some are indexed, and some are not. 

Please be aware that there are several titles that are available from more than one online collection, and the range of available dates may be different, so you might want to research all the sources.

(Updated December, 2020; recently added links are in BOLD)

Free Collections:

Arizona

• Phoenix Jewish News Photographs Collection  
• Phoenix, 1948-1983 - The Phoenix Jewish news.
• The Phoenix Jewish News

California

• Los Angeles - B'nai B'rith Messenger
• Long Beach - Jewish Community Chronicle
• San Francisco - J. The Jewish News of Northern California
• Los Angeles - University of Judaism News (1949-1962)

Colorado

• The Intermountain Jewish News Obituary Database
• Denver, Colo., 1915-1925 - The Denver Jewish news.
• Denver, Colo., 1903-1913 - The Jewish outlook.
• Denver Jewish News
• Jewish Outlook

Connecticut

• The Connecticut Jewish Ledger Obituary Database
• Jewish ledger (Springfield, Mass. : Hartford ed.) (1935 & 1938)

District of Columbia

• Washington Jewish Voice

Florida

• Jewish Floridian (Miami, Fla.)
• Jewish Floridian (Palm Beach, Fla.)
• Jewish Floridian and Shofar of Greater Hollywood
• Jewish Floridian of greater Ft. Lauderdale 
• Jewish Floridian of North Broward​
• Jewish Floridian of Palm Beach County (Palm Beach, Fla. 
• Jewish Floridian of Pinellas County 
• Jewish Floridian of South Broward 
• Jewish Floridian of South County 
• Jewish Floridian of Tampa 
• Jewish News of Sarasota-Manatee
• Jewish Press of Pinellas County
• Jewish Press of Tampa
• Judaica Newspaper Collection 
• Heritage Florida Jewish News
• Chai Life 
• Jacobean, The Voice of Jacob 
• Jewish Unity
• L'CHAYIM
• ​Shpiel.

Georgia

• The Southern Israelite (1929-1958, 1984-1986)

Illinois

• American Jewess
• Jewish Sentinel 
• The Sentinel
• The Chicago Obituary Database 
• Chicago, Ill., 1878-1??? - The Jewish advance.
• Sentinel 1911-1949
• The Reform Advocate
• Our word
• Jewish Workers World
• The Jewish art friend
• The Jewish Record

Indiana

• Jewish Post and Opinion 
• Jewish Post 
• Chronicler-Spokesman
• Spokesman

Kentucky

• Kentucky Jewish Chronicle

Maryland

• The Baltimore Jewish American
• Baltimore American

​Massachusetts

• ​Jewish Times 
• The Boston Jewish Advocate Obituary Database
• The Boston Jewish Advocate Wedding Announcements Database
• The Boston Jewish Advocate "Seeking Kin" Announcements Database 
• The Justice
• Der Emeth (The Truth)
• The Jewish Journal
• The Truth (Boston)
• The Boston Jewish voice

Michigan

• Detroit Jewish News 
• Detroit Jewish Chronicle (1916–1951)

Minnesota

• Minneapolis ;, 1915-current - The American Jewish world.
• St. Paul ; Minneapolis - The American Jewish world (9/10/1915 - 12/29/2017)
• The American Jewish World

Missouri

• The Jewish Voice
• Sulamith
• The representative

Nebraska

• The Jewish Press (Omaha)

New Jersey

•  Paterson NJ The Jewish Post 
•  Jersey City NJ Jewish Standard 
•  Fair Lawn NJ Israelight 
• Clifton NJ Jewish Community News 
• The New Jersey Jewish News

New York

• Aufbau
• Blackness
• Book (New York)
• Brunswick East New York Progress
• Business record
• Daily Jewish Herald 1894-1900
• Das Volk (The People) 1907-08
• Die Fraye Shtunde (The Free Hour)
• Die Wahrheit
• Eden
• El Progresso
• El Progresso, La Boz del Pueblo, La Époka de Nu York
• Familien Journal
• Family Magazine
• Forward
• Funny pages
• HaDeror
• Halam
• HaMitspe (New York)
• Hebrew
• Houmoh - Hebrew Weekly
• Il Progriso / La Boz del Poivlo / La Epocha di New York
• Informant to the new
• Jewish Current Archives
• Jewish Journal  ​
• Jewish Telegraph Agency Archive (clippings)
• La America
• La Amerika
• La Luz
• La Luz
• Manhattan - New York NY Jewish Journal (Yiddish) ( 1890-1906)
• Minikes holiday leaves
• Our School (Beit Sifrenu)
• Our script
• Our theater
• Revival
• Shibalim
• Shibolim
• Shulamit
• Specularia
• Summit
• The advertiser
• The Asmonean
• The bee
• The Daily Herald
• The day
• The dramatic world
• The Echo of the Teacher (Hed Hamoreh)
• The Evening Newspaper (Die Abend Zeitung)
• The evening paper
• The Forward
• The free hour
• The haman-bag
• The Hebrew (Katriel Zvi Sharhzahn)
• The Hebrew American
• The Hebrew American
• The Hebrew Leader
• The Hebrew Renaissance (Tehya)
• The Hebrew Standard
• The human friend
• The Jewish American
• The Jewish Chess Journal
• The Jewish Children's World
• The Jewish Daily News 
• The Jewish Farmer
• The Jewish guard
• The Jewish guard
• The Jewish Guardian
• The Jewish Guardian (1898)
• The Jewish Messenger 1857-1902 ​
• The Jewish Morning Journal
• The Jewish Morning Journal
• The Jewish Nation (Dos Yiddishe Folk)
• The Jewish Stage (Die Yiddische Bihne)
• The Jewish Weekly
• The Jewish world
• The Jewish World (Die Iddishe Welt)
• The kibbutz
• The land wise
• The LTS (New York)
• The manager
• The Morning Magazine
• The nation
• The Nation (HaLeom)
• The Nation (HaLeom)
• The new time
• The new world
• The new world
• The Observatory (New York)
• The People - New York
• The People's Wit (Der Land Hockem)
• The Principal (HaMenahel)
• The Public Prosecutor
• The sparrow
• The teacher
• The Teacher (HaMoreh)
• The theater singer
• The Theatrical Sonsgter (Der Theater Singer)
• The Time (Die Neue Zeit)
• The Treasure of Wisdom and Science for Israeli Literature
• The truth
• The whip
• The women world
• The workers' newspaper
• The Youth
• This Jewish nation
• This nation
• This New Life - New York
• Tomorrow newspaper
• Western candle
• Yiddish daily

North Carolina

• The Charlotte Jewish News 

Ohio

• Columbus - Columbus Jewish Chronicle  - 1918-1919
• Columbus - Jewish Chronicle  - 1919-1919
• Toledo - Toledo Jewish News  - 1938-2005, 2013-2015
• Ohio Jewish Chronicle 
• Die Deborah (1901-02)
• OJC Ohio Jewish Chronicle
• Ohio Jewish Chronicle  
• The Cleveland Jewish News Obituary Database
• Cleveland Jewish News Digital Archive 
•  - Cleveland Jewish News (1964– )
•  - Hebrew Observer (1889–1890, 1897–1898)
•  - Jewish Independent (1906–1964)
•  - Jewish Review (1895–1899)
•  - Jewish Review and Observer (1899–1958)
•  - Jewish World (1913–1952)
• The Ark; The Jewish Home Journal
• The Jewish world
• The Jewish Daily Press
• The true voice

​Oregon

• The Jewish Tribune

Pennsylvania

• Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project  
•  - Jewish Criterion (1895-1962) 
•  - American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962) 
•  - Jewish Chronicle (1962-present) 
•  - Y-JCC series (1926-1975).
• Philadelphia Jewish Exponent Obituary Database 
• The Occident and American Jewish Advocate 
• The Occident and American Jewish Advocate
• Bread and Freedom
• The star
• Zion's friend

South Carolina

• The Sabbath School Companion

Tennessee

• Nashville Jewish Observer

Texas

• Houston, Tex., 1908-1914 - The Jewish herald.
• Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex., 191?-1921 - The Jewish monitor.
• The Jewish Herald
• Texas Jewish Post 
• The Houston Jewish Herald-Voice Database  
• The Jewish Herald-Voice (1029)
• The Jewish Monitor (114) 

Virginia

• The Jewish South (1893-1899)  
• Richmond, Va., 1893-1899 - The Jewish South.

Washington

• Jewish Transcript 

Free from Libraries with a ProQuest Subscription:

• The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger—1857-1922
• The American Israelite—1854-2000
• The Jewish Advocate—1905-1990
• Jewish Exponent—1887-1990

Genealogy Bank (subscription):​

• Jewish Chronicle
• Jewish Daily News
• Jewish Journal
• Jewish Morning Journal
• Atlanta Jewish Times
• Detroit Jewish News
• Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
• Jewish Star
• Jewish Times
• Washington Jewish Week

Newspapers.com (subscription)

• The Jewish Herald
• The Jewish Monitor
• The Jewish South
• The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
• The Jewish Standard
• Buffalo Jewish Review
• St. Louis Jewish Light

Other Excellent Resources:
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• Wikipedia has a list of 51 Jewish Newspapers Currently Published in the USA. You might want to visit the individual sites to see if they have historical archives available. Might require a subscription.

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• Compact Memory is a digital collection of about 300 Jewish periodicals from German-speaking countries, 1806-1938. All in German.

 

• The Historical Jewish Press has a collection of 365 publications (most not from America). Included are Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods.

 

• A nice Library of Congress article on the Jewish Press in America over the years can be found at  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awas12/newspapers_periodicals.html

 

• Several university libraries have purchased parts of the ProQuest collection and may have Jewish newspapers available. You might check with your nearest major university library to see what they have in their collection or have easy access to.

Good Luck and Happy Hunting!

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