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 June, 2019; recently added links are in BOLD)

Free Collections:

Arizona

• Phoenix Jewish News Photographs Collection  

California

• Los Angeles - B'nai B'rith Messenger
• Long Beach - Jewish Community Chronicle
• San Francisco - J. The Jewish News of Northern California

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)

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 

Indiana

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

Kentucky

• Kentucky Jewish Chronicle

Maryland

• The Baltimore Jewish 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)

Michigan

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

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
• Jewish Current Archives
• The Jewish Morning Journal
• Jewish Journal  ​
• Die Wahrheit
• La Amerika
• El Progresso
• The Forward
• The Jewish Messenger 1857-1902 ​
• Daily Jewish Herald 1894-1900
• Das Volk (The People) 1907-08
• Die Fraye Shtunde (The Free Hour)
• El Progresso, La Boz del Pueblo, La Époka de Nu York
• Familien Journal
• HaDeror
• HaMitspe (New York)
• Houmoh - Hebrew Weekly
• La Luz
• Our School (Beit Sifrenu)
• Shibolim
• The Echo of the Teacher (Hed Hamoreh)
• The Evening Newspaper (Die Abend Zeitung)
• The Hebrew American
• The Hebrew Renaissance (Tehya)
• The Jewish Daily News 
• The Jewish Farmer
• The Jewish Guardian
• The Jewish Guardian (1898)
• The Jewish Morning Journal
• The Jewish Nation (Dos Yiddishe Folk)
• The Jewish Stage (Die Yiddische Bihne)
• The Jewish World (Die Iddishe Welt)
• The Nation (HaLeom)
• The People's Wit (Der Land Hockem)
• The Principal (HaMenahel)
• The Teacher (HaMoreh)
• The Theatrical Sonsgter (Der Theater Singer)
• The Time (Die Neue Zeit)
• Jewish Telegraph Agency Archive (clippings)
• The Nation (HaLeom)
• The Hebrew American
• The Youth

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)

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 

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 (326)
• 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 

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 200 Jewish periodicals from German-speaking countries, 1806-1938. All in German.

 

• The Historical Jewish Press has a collection of 316 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.

Happy Hunting!

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