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From left, J.’s Maya Mirsky interviews Lara Michels, head of archival processing at Cal's Bancroft Library, and Susan Morris, a former curator and executive director of the Judah L. Magnes Museum. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Preserving Jewish history and Americana: Insights from two Bay Area archivists

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 1, 2026April 1, 2026

I sat down with two wonderful historians and archivists, Lara Michels and Susan Morris, on March 22 to discuss the importance of preserving California Jewish history. We met up at […]

A family in the Seduva shtetl, captured before the world they knew disappeared. The Lost Shtetl Museum offers an intimate look at religious, civic and cultural life in communities like these. (The Lost Shtetl Museum/collection of Anat Rosen)
Posted inCulture

Echoes of a lost shtetl: How sound is recreating a vanished Jewish world

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz January 26, 2026January 26, 2026
In the 1940s, we often wrote of "the Palestine Problem."
Posted inFrom the Archives

A second look back at 130 years of our publication

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 2, 2025December 2, 2025
Temple Israel has occupied a variety of buildings over the years, including this one on Hunter Street, seen here in 1905. (Courtesy Western States Jewish History Association)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Gold drew Jews to Stockton. Community kept them there.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 6, 2025June 6, 2025
Telegrams were a big part of Jewish holiday observance in 1933. (J. Archives)
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Not so long ago, Jews absolutely loved to send telegrams

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 28, 2025May 28, 2025
The National Endowment for the Arts logo on the building that houses its offices in Washington, D.C. (F Delventhal via Flickr CC BY 2.0)
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Trump’s cuts are a war on Jewish literature, thought and history itself

by Aviya Kushner May 7, 2025May 7, 2025
The National Endowment for the Humanities has historically funded scholarship in the humanities. (Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Scholars tell important Jewish stories with NEH funds. What happens to them now?

Pamela S. Nadell by Pamela S. Nadell April 10, 2025April 10, 2025
Four Stabucks cups, each with a name handwritten on it: Rivka, Ezra, Avi, and Talia
Posted inU.S.

A new study explains why Starbucks can’t spell your Jewish name

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA September 12, 2022September 12, 2022
A 1949 announcement in this paper about Bat (or Bas) mitzvah classes
Posted inFrom the Archives

San Francisco’s first bat mitzvah in 1947 paved the way for others

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 29, 2022
Pages from "The Last Jews of Penang" show the Malaysian Jewish community's former synagogue.
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New graphic novel tells the story of Malaysia’s lost Jewish community

by Jordyn Haime and JTA December 6, 2021December 6, 2021

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