Community Oral History Projects

  Katrina's Jewish Voices

• Explore Katrina's impact on the Jewish communities of the Gulf Coast and New Orleans through the eyes of people who lived through the storm.
• Discover the ways Jews across the country contributed to relief and rebuilding efforts.
• Examine journals, photographs, reflections, sermons, blog postings, emails, and letters contributed by members of Jewish communities nationwide in the months during and after Katrina.
• Add your voice by contributing your own Katrina story.

  Contemporary Activists (Women Who Dared)

• Hear contemporary Jewish women talk about the role that gender and Jewish identity played in their choice to become activists.
• View online biographical information and photographs of contemporary activists.

  Weaving Women's Words

• Share the stories of a dynamic generation of Jewish women, whose stories have too often been missing from the pages of our communal experience.
• Explore their worlds through the women's own words, intimate photographic portraits, and vibrant works of interpretive art.

Baltimore Stories

Seattle Stories

Nicki Newman Tanner Oral History Archive

For over a decade, the Jewish Women's Archive has been conducting oral histories. Parts of these interviews have been used in various exhibits on our website. Now we have embarked upon an ambitious program to preserve the interviews by digitizing and maintaining them, along with edited transcripts and other digital artifacts, in a secure repository. Over the next few years we will be increasing access to these materials and making them easier to find and search. We are also developing tools so that teachers and students can use the interviews, selected clips, images, and other primary documents to create online displays and presentations. The first interviews will be online in the summer of 2008.

For more information contact Jayne Guberman at 617-383-6758 or send an email to .