Subject Guide: Environmental History

This guide highlights archival collections, library materials, and museum objects related to the topic of environmental history through the lens of the collections of the partners of the Center for Jewish History. Although it is not an exhaustive guide on Jewish environmental history, it touches upon many of the important aspects of its societal, political, and scientific impacts, including:

• Jewish Agriculture in the United States
• Environment in Religion
• Agriculture and Labor
• Camping and Jewish Identity Formation
• The Environment in Jewish Ritual

If you are interested in a collection or library item you do not see highlighted in this guide, please visit search.cjh.org, where you can search by keyword, name, title, subject or call number. 

Please email inquiries@cjh.org if you have any additional questions about the thousands of books, archival collections, and museum objects available to use for research at the Center. 

For more information on the Center's partners, please click below for their organizational websites:

• American Jewish Historical Society
• American Sephardi Federation
• Leo Baeck Institute
• Yeshiva University Museum (YUM)
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO)