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Subject Guide: American Midwest

Queen Mary...Chicago (1/2), circa 1938. Walter and Hedwig Grossmann Collection. LBI.

Looking down a street in downtown Chicago with theaters and skyscrapers down both sides

Periodicals in English

Illinois

The Chicago Jewish Forum (Chicago, Ill.)

New American (Chicago, Ill.)

Indiana

Jewish Post (Indianapolis, Ind.)

Iowa

Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa)

Ohio

American Israelite (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Hebrew Union College Monthly

Later Title: Hebrew Union College Quarterly.

The Jewish Review and Observer (Cleveland, Ohio)

Earlier Title: Jewish Review (Cleveland, Ohio); Later Title: Jewish Independent

Michigan

Jewish News (Detroit, Mich.)

Newsletter (Jewish Historical Society of Michigan)

Minnesota

Identity: a publication of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Minneapolis. (Minneapolis, Minn.)

Mount Zion Temple Bulletin (St. Paul, Minn.)

Nebraska

Jewish Press (Omaha, Neb.)

Memories of the Jewish Midwest (Omaha, Neb.: Nebraska Jewish Historical Society)

Wisconsin

Milwaukee Jewish Voice (Milwaukee, Wis.)

Periodicals in Non-English Languages

Illinois

Di Idishe arbeṭer ṿelṭ (Chicago, Ill.) [Digitized] [Yiddish]

Idisher ḳuryer (Chicago, Ill.) (Second catalogue record here) [Yiddish]

Ḳulṭur. (Chicago, Ill.) [Yiddish]

Unzer ṿorṭ. (Chicago, Ill.) [Digitized] [Yiddish]

Iowa

Ḳinder-land (Sioux City, Iowa) [Yiddish]

Progress (Sioux City, Iowa) [Yiddish]

Ohio

Deborah (Cincinnati, Ohio) [Available online] [German]

Idishe ṿelṭ (Cleveland, Ohio) [Yiddish]

Yiddishe Tegliche Presse (Cleveland, Ohio) [Digitized] [Yiddish]

Michigan

Dziennik Polski (Detroit, Mich.) [Polish]

Ḳulṭur-lige (Detroit, Michigan) [Yiddish]

Minnesota

Di Shabeśdige Posṭ (Minneapolis) [Yiddish]

Missouri

Idisher Reḳord (Saint Louis, Mo.) [Located off-site, please contact reference@yivo.org to discuss access] [Yiddish]

Wisconsin

Zeitgeist (Milwaukee, Wis., Chicago, Ill., and Louisville, Ky.) [Digitized] [German]