Major Projects
Report
David Epstein, Co-Publisher of WSJH recently
returned from traveling in the Mid-West giving Scholar Weekends
and other Lectures to Synagogues and Museums on the subject of:
The Third Golden Age of Judaism: Why the Pioneer
Jews were So Successful in the Wild West and What We Learn from
Them.
On March 3, 2009 the Western States Jewish
Archives were formally dedicated at the Charles Young Research
Library at UCLA.
If you are not yet a Member of the
Western States Jewish History Association,
we recommend that you become on at once. Cost is only $36/yr.
Just send your name and address and a check for
$36 to:
Western States Jewish
History, 22711 Cass Avenue, Woodland Hills, CA 91364
(818) 225-9631
We will be updating our
two Indexes. They now cover 40 years of articles presented in our
Journal. Volume 41, which is quite extensive, will be added in the
near future.
Go to 40 Year
Indexes.
Our Western States Jewish
History Archives Continue to Grow for All Scholars
During the Spring of 2009 approximately another 50
cartons of rare books, very old newspapers, old journals and other
ephemera from the archives of Western States Jewish History were
presented to the Huntington Library. We have been told that a great
deal of this material was known about, but never seen. Now it has a
safe home.
Information on how to access this material will be
listed shortly on this site.
During the Spring and Summer of 2007, the Brin
family turned over all the documents relating to the Heritage
Newspapers to Western States Jewish History for sorting,
archiving and placing in research institutions where the material
would be of value to scholars and historians.
50 years of bound copies of the Heritage
Newspapers where sent to UCLA Special Collections and Hebrew Union
College in Los Angeles, and to the Rose Society in San Diego. They
are a treasure showing the history of Jewish Los Angeles, Orange
County, Ventura County and San Diego for the years beginning with
the early 1950s to the turn of the 21st century.
Hundreds of photographs were added to the
Photo Archives of WSJH.
Office records, ephemera, correspondence, etc. is
being prepared for placement at the Huntington Library.
IF ANYONE KNOWS THE LOCATION OF THE BOUND COPIES
OF THE B'NAI B'RITH MESSENGER, PLEASE CONTACT US!
