Historical Jewish American Newspapers Online

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

The first part of the list includes titles available from many different collections and is presented by state. The second part includes titles available by subscription.

Listed are only those that are available online. As always, tons more are available via microfilm and in the 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.

Jewish American Historical Newspapers

Free Collections:

Arizona  

California

Colorado

Connecticut

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Massachusetts

Maryland

Maine

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Nebraska

New Jersey

Nevada

North Carolina

New York

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Virginia

Washington

Wyoming

  •   The Wyoming Jewish Press

Newspaper Archive (subscription)

Colorado

Florida

Georgia

Indiana

Minnesota

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Virginia

Washington

Newspapers dot com (subscription)

Arizona

Colorado

Florida

Illinois

Minnesota

Missouri

Nebraska

New York

Oklahoma

Texas

Virginia

Wisconsin

Other Excellent Resources:.  

Good Luck and Happy Hunting!

7 replies on “Historical Jewish American Newspapers Online”

Thanks so much for this compilatiin. It will be very helpful.

thank you! this is priceless!

For NJ: The Newark Jewish News https://jhsnj-archives.org/
and the Jewish Chronicle is on GenealogyBank

Thanks Beth. That will be in my next update.

The archives for most of the papers in New Jersey show a server error. Are you sure that those links are correct?

I will check them out today and fix them if possible

Fixed.

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