Research Your Past
Are you curious about your family’s background in New Haven CT? How about the history of New Haven’s Jewish neighborhood, synagogues and organizations?
Our archives and archivists help people learn more about Jewish New Haven history as well as general New Haven history. Common questions we regularly research include births, deaths and weddings. Our extensive collection of photographs provides views of New Haven over the past century.
Contribute to the Collection
Do you have documents, photos, videos, films or things that illustrate some aspect of Jewish life in New Haven?
Papers and objects that might not seem important to you, may help us fill in gaps in our collections and help us provide a fuller portrait of Jewish life in New Haven over the centuries. Talk with us about donating your material to our collection.
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The Great Give 2024
The Great Give, one of our major fundraisers, begins May 1, 2024, and is the best opportunity for you to support our work. Each donation directly sustains our efforts, whether it’s physically maintaining our archives, supporting researchers and historians, or running educational programs. Now is the time to donate – the first $4,000 will be generously matched 1:1 by our Board of Directors, effectively doubling your donation.
Any amount helps, and we’d love to get the support of as many community members as possible. Please share this message with your friends and family and consider making a pledge this year to help us preserve New Haven’s Jewish cultural heritage for future generations. Visit our page on the Great Give site here!
Judaica Project
JHSGNH and the Peter C. Hereld House for Jewish Life at Quinnipiac University are thrilled to present the Judaica Project! Please join us for monthly dialogues on Zoom about Judaica, Jewish art, and what these mean to you. This series is made possible by a generous grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven.
Follow the links to join us!
Thursday 4/18 @ 7 PM: L’dor V’dor Judaica with Emily Scheinfeld
Thursday 5/16 @ 7 PM: Black Cat Judaica with Nelly
Past:
Wednesday 6/28 @ 2 pm: Rabbi Reena Judd’s Jewish Boxes
Thursday 7/13 @ 7 pm: Hannah Paperno on Thrifting Judaica
Thursday 8/24 @ 7 PM: Marci Pratt on Crafting Judaica
Thursday 11/16 @ 7 PM: Ruth Simon McRae on Judaic Textile Arts
Wednesday 12/13 @ 2 PM: Rabbi Reena Judd’s Menorah Collection
Thursday 1/18 @ 7 PM: Cynthia Beth Rubin on Digital Art with Hebrew Manuscripts
Sunday 2/11 @ 9:30 AM: Finding Your Own Jewish Genealogy with Dan Oren
Photographic History Presentation
JHSGNH’s Photographic History of Jewish New Haven has been presented to many synagogues in Greater New Haven including: Temple Emmanuel, Temple Beth Sholom, Mishkan Israel and B’nai Jacob. Please contact us if you would like the presentation for your synagogue or organization: call (203) 392-6125 or email us.
An Ethnic History of New Haven
A publication of The Ethnic Heritage Center of New Haven
Click to read or download the PDF document.
Jews In New Haven
Walk New Haven
JHS Newsletter
We thank The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and Andrew Eder for their financial contributions towards the construction of this website.
