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The Myer & Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History

IN MAY 1990, Temple University created the Center for American Jewish History. Established to insure that American Jewish history continues as a subject of active research and documentation, the Feinstein Center is an academic unit of the Department of History in Temple's College of Liberal Arts.

 

MISSION

The Myer & Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History was created to promote the study of the Jewish experience in America.  The Feinstein Center is dedicated to encouraging and nurturing a new generation of scholars to devote their talents and energies to research and teaching in this field.

 

The Feinstein Center, as part of its mandate to create electronic resources for the study of American Jewish History, has a searchable Database of American Jewish Historical Repositories.  These Repositories may be archives, museums, libraries, synagogues, newspapers, communal organizations; in short, any source of original material that may be of value to the student of American Jewish History. The purpose of this directory is to provide scholars with leads about potential locations for research. By simply typing a keyword, (which may be a name, location, institution, or idea), the directory will return a list of repositories that contain sources relating to that keyword.

 

FEINSTEIN CENTER HAS A NEW DIRECTOR

Dr. Lila Corwin Berman is the Murray Friedman Professor and the Director of the Myer & Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University.  Dr. Berman holds a PhD in American Religious History from Yale University.  Her first book, Speaking of Jews:  Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity, has recently been published by the University of California Press.

 

PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY'S OTHER JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAMS

The Jewish Studies Program offers students an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism, with courses in secular Jewish culture, Jewish religion, Jewish history, philosophy, languages and literatures.

 

The Center for Afro-Jewish Studies is a research and learning institution dedicated to scholarship on Afro-Jewish peoples and developing awareness of the historical, political, religious, and philosophical issues that arise from the convergence of the African and Jewish diasporas.


MURRAY FRIEDMAN, Founder and Director of the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, 1926-2005

 

 

 

 

 

Click here to view a tribute in memory of Murray Friedman