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Jewish Genealogical Society
of Greater Philadelphia (JGSGP)

Library Holdings

The JGSGP library collection occupies a dedicated area in the Tuttleman Jewish Public Library of Gratz College on the second floor of the Newman Building. It is available during normal Tuttleman Library hours.

The library of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Philadelphia College is a reference library, meaning books may be used only in the library. There are two exceptions, the collection of tapes and certain books. Through donations to the library and special purchases, we now have duplicates of some of our books. The library committee decided to allow the duplicate books to circulate. The following guidelines have been established:

The following books are currently available to be circulated:
  1. Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy
  2. Bar Mitzvah Gala, May 17, 1989, exhibit at the National Museum of American Jewish History
  3. Finding Our Fathers: a Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy, Dan Rottenberg, 1977
  4. From Generation to Generation: How to trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Personal History, by Arthur Kurzweil, 1980
  5. Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area, 2003
  6. Growing up in America, May 23, 1990, exhibit at the National Museum of American Jewish History
  7. A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel (2 copies), by Sallyann Amdur Sack, 1987
  8. Image Before My Eyes: a Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1934-1939, by Lucjan Dobroszycki and Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimbel, 1974
  9. In Their Words, A Genealogist's Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian Documents by Jonathan D. Shea, 2002
  10. Jewish Farming Communities of Northeastern New York, 1998
  11. Jewish Life in Philadelphia, 1830-1940, by Murray Friedman
  12. The Jews of St. Petersburg: Excursions Through a Noble Past, by Mikhail Beizer, 1989
  13. Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals, 1987
  14. Shores of Refuge: A Hundred Years of Jewish Emigration, by Ronald Sanders, 1988
  15. To Dwell in Safety: the Story of Jewish Migration Since 1800, by Mark Wischnitzer, 1949
  16. Vienna and Its Jews: the Tragedy of Success, 1880s-1980s, by George E. Berkley, 1988
To borrow a book or tape, please see Al First or Joan Rosen prior to the monthly meeting.

Donations of books are gratefully accepted. Please contact the JGSGP office for all contributions.

Our JGSGP Library catalog is online in a fully-searchable, standard library catalog form maintained by the Gratz Library staff.

To use it, do the following:

  1. Go to www.gratz.edu, the Gratz web site.
  2. Click on Tuttleman Library.
  3. Click on Links. A blue box appears to the right with heading Spotlight..
  4. In the blue box, click on Mandarin Library Database.
  5. The Search webpage will appear.
You can search the library for anything it has, but if you want to specify the JGSGP collection, click on Enhanced Search, find the Anywhere choice in the drop down box, and type "JGSGP" in the first blank box. Go down one level and change the OR to AND. Then type in below that what you want to find. Try this with "Harry Boonin" and see what you come up with. The search engine looks everywhere in the record, so books that were donated by Harry appear in the list along with any he wrote, or co-wrote, or edited.

Recent Acquisitions

JEWISH GENEALOGY CONFERENCE MATERIALS

        All CDs are on a shelf in the Gratz Library work room. You must ask for them.

 

BOOKS PERIODICALS
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Revised June 10, 2008