TPS 0113: Jewish American Theatre: Home

• Hathi Trust
• Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
• Internet Archive
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• Primary Source Sets (Digital Public Library of America)

• American Jewish Archives
• Center for Jewish History Digital Collections
• The Collection at the Jewish Museum
• Jewish Women's Archive
• JDC Archives.
• NYPL Digital Collections from the Dorot Jewish Division
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections
• Video Recordings — Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies
• Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History (theweitzman.org)
• Yad Vashem Digital Collections
• Yiddish Book Center Digital Library & Collections
• Yeshiva University Libraries Digital Collections
• Yiddish Theater Collection at Museum of NYC
• Yiddish Theatre Collection at NYPL

Search for local sources based on your project. For examples:

• Galveston Movement in Texas State Historical Association
• University of North Texas Libraries
• Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience | New Orleans
• New Orleans, Louisiana - Jewish Virtual Library
• Jewish Heritage Collection « at the College of Charleston Addlestone library (cofc.edu)
• South Carolina Jews Tell Their Stories « Jewish Heritage Collection (cofc.edu)
• Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina (jhssc.org)
• Jewish Archives in the United States
• New York State Historic Newspapers

• State Archives and Historical Societies

• adViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials 
• American Archive of Public Broadcasting

 

I. American Historic Newspapers and Magazines

• Accessible Archives
• America's Historical Newspapers
• American Periodicals 1740-1900
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (All States included, 1777-1963):
  A selection of digitized American Jewish newspapers from 7 different states.
• Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971
• Newspapers.com
• More

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II. Academic Journal Articles

• JSTOR
• Project Muse
• Performing Arts Periodicals Database

 

• In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
• America: History & Life, Film & Television Literature, Historical Abstracts, LGBTQ+ Source,  Music Literature,, Women's Studies International

III. JumboSearch for Books     

Sample titles at Tufts libraries:

• Oxford bibliographies. Jewish studies
• Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson by Prof. Heather Nathans
• Experiments in Democracy: Interracial and Cross-Cultural Exchange in American Theatre, 1912-1945
• Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage by Prof. Heather Nathans
• A history of the New York stage, from the first performance in 1732 to 1901
• The immigrant scene: ethnic amusements in New York, 1880-1920
• Performing the Progressive Era: immigration, urban life, and nationalism on stage
• Street scenes: staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924
• Wonder of wonders: a cultural history of Fiddler on the roof
• Yiddish empire: the Vilna Troupe, Jewish theater, and the art of itinerancy
• Yiddish proletarian theatre: the art and politics of the Artef, 1925-1940
• The Yiddish theatre: new approaches