The Berman Archive at Stanford—formerly the Berman Jewish Policy Archive—documents American Jewish Communities. With open access to digital artifacts from 1900 to the present, it is the largest archive of the printed material of communal American Jewish life. The project’s collections, public programming, and content efforts seek to chart the full range and evolution of Jewish voices in the academic, religious, communal, and professional spheres. 

The archive houses collections of “gray literature,” material produced outside traditional academic and commercial spheres, offering a varied look at the many past iterations of the American Jewish experience. The Berman Archive serves as a central repository for documentation of, about, and for American Jewry—the newsletters of Jewish nonprofits or communal organizations, Jewish-focused publications that can’t be accessed online, and studies of Jewish populations in America. The collections seek to offer multiple perspectives, from the mainstream and the margins of American Jewish life.

(Description adapted from information on project website)