This Yiddish map of American states and cities, originally published in 1917 by the Industrial Removal Office (IRO), reflects a pivotal chapter in the Jewish immigrant experience in early 20th-century America. Established to resettle Jewish refugees fleeing Eastern European pogroms, the IRO worked to disperse newcomers from overcrowded urban centers into smaller American towns with available jobs and growing Jewish communities. The map itself, labeled using Yiddish script to approximate phonetic English sounds, served both as a practical tool and a cultural artifact.

Thanks to the Judaica Library’s ongoing partnership with Ariel Abramovich, an Argentinian journalist and editor, and various Jewish institutions and publishers in Argentina, we can now offer online open access to previously inaccessible historical issues of the Jewish journal, Mundo Israelita. Originally founded in 1923 by Salvador Kibrick and Samuel Resnick, this important newspaper was the first Spanish weekly for the Argentine Jewish community.

Thanks to generous support from the Shorstein Family Foundation, we have been able to digitize sections of the Jacksonville Jewish Center Archives. The digital collection includes photographs, yearbooks, A/V material, and other records belonging to the Center charting its history and growth from the 1920s to present day.