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The JGSI Subject Database - JCRP
- The Jewish Chicago Resource Portal -

including Jewish newspapers, archives, JGSI newsletters, presentations, cemetery information, references and links to other resources.

 

Search The JGSI Jewish Chicago Resource Portal (JCRP)
Last Updated January 2024; 7774 records.


Resource Title and Type of Collection:
Title contains

(Events, Individuals, Organizations, Places, Topics, e.g.)

For example: Title "contains":
. . . ANSHE finds ANSHE ANTOPOLE and ANSHE EMET, etc.
. . . IRISH finds AMERICA: IRISH and IRISH JEWS, etc.
. . . LAWNDALE finds JEWISH LAWNDALE and LAWNDALE AVENUE, etc.

Type
Includes Journals, Newspapers, Presentation Videos, etc.
. . . Leave this blank for all collections or use the dropdown arrow (v) to view and select one from this list.


Subject contains

(Archives, DNA, Shul, Cemetery, History, or Location, e.g.)

Ancestral Home or Current Location:
Town
sounds like
starts with
contains

Search options can help find information when you’re not sure of the exact spelling.
For example:
. . . "Sounds Like” ZHITOMER finds ZHITOMER and ZHITOMER/VOLIN, etc.
. . . “Starts with” MARIAM finds MARIAMPOL and MARIAMPOLE, etc.
. . . “Contains” MOT finds MOTOL and MOTELE, etc.

Country contains

Author/Speaker contains

(Recommend using Last Names, e.g., Morrow, Seidenberg, Greenspan.)


Year contains

(Year or date established or published.)

Supplemental Information contains

(Title, Volume, Page reference, Cemetery, Location details, e.g.)



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