Title: Southwest Jewish Archives, Southwest Jewish Archives

URL: http://swja.arizona.edu/

Collection: Library-Developed Websites & Exhibits

Description: Website for the Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives which offers several educational exhibits. The Pioneers exhibit presents the pioneer Jewish experience in West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona through images of photos held in regional archives and museums, electronic texts, articles, newspaper accounts, and biographical information. The Synagogues exhibit reinforces that pioneer Jews placed a priority on maintaining their beliefs, values, and traditions amid the hazards of the nation's frontier. Crypto-Jews focuses on the Crypto-Jewish experience in the U. S. Southwest and is one of the most highly visited areas of the website. The Oral Histories section features interviews with Tucson's New American community. Its members were invited to participate in recording information about their lives and experiences in the former Soviet Union and now in Tucson. By including their stories, we find similarities between the pioneers of the 19th century and those of the late 20th. Oral Histories includes the story of a 20th (and now 21st) century family whose family odyssey is traced from Europe to the eastern U. S. and then to Tucson. Finding Aids provides web access to the physical collection held in the UA Library's Special Collections.

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Subject:   Jewish Americans,  Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives