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	The collections will include print, sound, and visual materials from the Golden Age to the present, on the history, literature, and culture of and about the Sephardi and Mizrahi communities. The collections will represent all languages including Ladino and Judeo-Arabic, and any country with a Sephardi/Mizrahi presence, including the Americas, the Balkans, the Iberian Peninsula, the Middle East, the Mediterranean countries, North Africa, and Turkey.		The collections will include print, sound, and visual materials from the Golden Age to the present, on the history, literature, and culture of and about the Sephardi and Mizrahi communities. The collections will represent all languages including Ladino and Judeo-Arabic, and any country with a Sephardi/Mizrahi presence, including the Americas, the Balkans, the Iberian Peninsula, the Middle East, the Mediterranean countries, North Africa, and Turkey.
	Leo Baeck Institute
			====Leo Baeck Institute====

	The Institute’s library and archives include books and periodicals (microform preferred), non-published materials, and a collection of art and artifacts related to the history of German-speaking Jewry. Included in the collection are manuscripts, official and personal documents, photos, diaries, letters and correspondence, writings on life and daily experiences, documents on births, marriages, divorces, circumcisions, bar mitzvahs, family trees, diplomas, certificates and membership cards of all kinds, visas and emigration documents, newspaper pages/clippings on specific events, posters, prayer books, rabbinical documents, writings from the lives of religious organizations and schools, records of German-Jewish organizations and Jewish communities, etc., as well as non-book materials including videotapes, computer files, records, audio tapes (e.g. oral history projects), etc. Books by non-Jewish authors on Jewish subjects are acquired.		The Institute’s library and archives include books and periodicals (microform preferred), non-published materials, and a collection of art and artifacts related to the history of German-speaking Jewry. Included in the collection are manuscripts, official and personal documents, photos, diaries, letters and correspondence, writings on life and daily experiences, documents on births, marriages, divorces, circumcisions, bar mitzvahs, family trees, diplomas, certificates and membership cards of all kinds, visas and emigration documents, newspaper pages/clippings on specific events, posters, prayer books, rabbinical documents, writings from the lives of religious organizations and schools, records of German-Jewish organizations and Jewish communities, etc., as well as non-book materials including videotapes, computer files, records, audio tapes (e.g. oral history projects), etc. Books by non-Jewish authors on Jewish subjects are acquired.

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	[This policy was updated from the previous version adopted at the CDC meeting on February 12, 2019.]		[This policy was updated from the previous version adopted at the CDC meeting on February 12, 2019.]

			==Minutes==

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	Formats include fine and folk art (including sculpture, paintings, and works on paper), photographs, amulets and jewelry, clothing and accessories, posters and synagogue models. Holdings are particularly strong in ethnographic material, costume, and ephemera.		Formats include fine and folk art (including sculpture, paintings, and works on paper), photographs, amulets and jewelry, clothing and accessories, posters and synagogue models. Holdings are particularly strong in ethnographic material, costume, and ephemera.

	==Collection Development Scope Grid for Books and Periodicals==		===Collection Development Scope Grid for Books and Periodicals===
	The Partners of the Center for Jewish History are involved in active acquisitions of library, archival, and museum materials to maintain outstanding research collections. The partners acquire archival and museum materials, which are essential components of their collections, based on bequests and availability. Subject areas of books and periodicals are included in the attached grid.		The Partners of the Center for Jewish History are involved in active acquisitions of library, archival, and museum materials to maintain outstanding research collections. The partners acquire archival and museum materials, which are essential components of their collections, based on bequests and availability. Subject areas of books and periodicals are included in the attached grid.

	[[Media:Cdc_coll_grid2017.docx\|Collection Grid]]		[[Media:Cdc_coll_grid2017.docx\|Collection Grid]]

	==CJH Electronic Resources Collection Development Policy==		===CJH Electronic Resources Collection Development Policy===

	The Center for Jewish History is committed to fostering a dynamic and engaging environment for researchers and the general public to view the physical and digital holdings of the five Partner institutions. However, the Center has reevaluated the feasibility of returning to historical budgets for electronic resources as both a poor allocation of scarce funding that could directed elsewhere and a misalignment with why visitors come to the Lillian Goldman Reading Room. Traffic to the reading room and online library systems is driven by the outstanding and unique concentration of library and archival holdings available in a centralized location with an impeccable array of general and subject-specific professionals at the Center and Partner institutions.		The Center for Jewish History is committed to fostering a dynamic and engaging environment for researchers and the general public to view the physical and digital holdings of the five Partner institutions. However, the Center has reevaluated the feasibility of returning to historical budgets for electronic resources as both a poor allocation of scarce funding that could directed elsewhere and a misalignment with why visitors come to the Lillian Goldman Reading Room. Traffic to the reading room and online library systems is driven by the outstanding and unique concentration of library and archival holdings available in a centralized location with an impeccable array of general and subject-specific professionals at the Center and Partner institutions.

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Eric Fritzler at 21:13, 4 December 2023

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	==Policies==		==Policies==

	==Partner Collection Scopes==		===Partner Collection Scopes===
	===Overview===		====Overview====
	The library, archives, and museum collections at the Center for Jewish History support research and study of the history and culture of the Jewish people. They are comprised of the repositories of five institutions: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and Yeshiva University Museum. Generally, the collections focus on the modern period and specialize in East European, German-speaking, Sephardic, and American Jewry. The primary languages of the collections are Yiddish, German, Hebrew, English, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. Materials in the collections include books and periodicals, unpublished paper documents, artifacts, and other non-print materials; the Museum has a sizeable archeological and ethnographic collection, spanning ancient, medieval, and modern periods.		The library, archives, and museum collections at the Center for Jewish History support research and study of the history and culture of the Jewish people. They are comprised of the repositories of five institutions: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and Yeshiva University Museum. Generally, the collections focus on the modern period and specialize in East European, German-speaking, Sephardic, and American Jewry. The primary languages of the collections are Yiddish, German, Hebrew, English, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. Materials in the collections include books and periodicals, unpublished paper documents, artifacts, and other non-print materials; the Museum has a sizeable archeological and ethnographic collection, spanning ancient, medieval, and modern periods.

	===American Jewish Historical Society===		====American Jewish Historical Society====

	The Society’s library, archives, and art and artifact collection includes books, periodicals, newspapers, and manuscripts in several languages, family histories, agency records, photographs, microfilm, sound recordings, paintings, works of art on paper, textiles, sculpture, ritual objects, cultural objects, and material in other media, all of which document the western hemispheric American Jewish experience.		The Society’s library, archives, and art and artifact collection includes books, periodicals, newspapers, and manuscripts in several languages, family histories, agency records, photographs, microfilm, sound recordings, paintings, works of art on paper, textiles, sculpture, ritual objects, cultural objects, and material in other media, all of which document the western hemispheric American Jewish experience.

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CJH Electronic Resources Collection Development Policy

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	[This policy was updated from the previous version adopted at the CDC meeting on February 12, 2019.]		[This policy was updated from the previous version adopted at the CDC meeting on February 12, 2019.]

	Additional documentation is available to collection managers at our Partner institutions as well as Center senior managers via a password-protected link. The folder found through the link will be where future electronic resources discussions will be documented as necessary.

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Collection Development Scope Grid for Books and Periodicals

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	The Partners of the Center for Jewish History are involved in active acquisitions of library, archival, and museum materials to maintain outstanding research collections. The partners acquire archival and museum materials, which are essential components of their collections, based on bequests and availability. Subject areas of books and periodicals are included in the attached grid.		The Partners of the Center for Jewish History are involved in active acquisitions of library, archival, and museum materials to maintain outstanding research collections. The partners acquire archival and museum materials, which are essential components of their collections, based on bequests and availability. Subject areas of books and periodicals are included in the attached grid.

	[[~~https://wiki.cjh.org/index.php/File~~:Cdc_coll_grid2017.docx Collection Grid]]		[[Media:Cdc_coll_grid2017.docx\|Collection Grid]]

	==CJH Electronic Resources Collection Development Policy==		==CJH Electronic Resources Collection Development Policy==

Eric Fritzler: /* Collection Development Scope Grid for Books and Periodicals */

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	The Partners of the Center for Jewish History are involved in active acquisitions of library, archival, and museum materials to maintain outstanding research collections. The partners acquire archival and museum materials, which are essential components of their collections, based on bequests and availability. Subject areas of books and periodicals are included in the attached grid.		The Partners of the Center for Jewish History are involved in active acquisitions of library, archival, and museum materials to maintain outstanding research collections. The partners acquire archival and museum materials, which are essential components of their collections, based on bequests and availability. Subject areas of books and periodicals are included in the attached grid.

	[https://wiki.cjh.org/File:Cdc_coll_grid2017.docx Collection Grid]		[[https://wiki.cjh.org/index.php/File:Cdc_coll_grid2017.docx Collection Grid]]

	==CJH Electronic Resources Collection Development Policy==		==CJH Electronic Resources Collection Development Policy==

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	The Partners of the Center for Jewish History are involved in active acquisitions of library, archival, and museum materials to maintain outstanding research collections. The partners acquire archival and museum materials, which are essential components of their collections, based on bequests and availability. Subject areas of books and periodicals are included in the attached grid.		The Partners of the Center for Jewish History are involved in active acquisitions of library, archival, and museum materials to maintain outstanding research collections. The partners acquire archival and museum materials, which are essential components of their collections, based on bequests and availability. Subject areas of books and periodicals are included in the attached grid.

	[https://wiki.cjh.org~~/index.php~~/File:Cdc_coll_grid2017.docx Collection Grid]		[https://wiki.cjh.org/File:Cdc_coll_grid2017.docx Collection Grid]

	==CJH Electronic Resources Collection Development Policy==		==CJH Electronic Resources Collection Development Policy==

Eric Fritzler: /* Collection Development Scope Grid for Books and Periodicals */

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	The Partners of the Center for Jewish History are involved in active acquisitions of library, archival, and museum materials to maintain outstanding research collections. The partners acquire archival and museum materials, which are essential components of their collections, based on bequests and availability. Subject areas of books and periodicals are included in the attached grid.		The Partners of the Center for Jewish History are involved in active acquisitions of library, archival, and museum materials to maintain outstanding research collections. The partners acquire archival and museum materials, which are essential components of their collections, based on bequests and availability. Subject areas of books and periodicals are included in the attached grid.

	[~~Cdc coll grid2017~~.docx Collection Grid]		[https://wiki.cjh.org/index.php/File:Cdc_coll_grid2017.docx Collection Grid]

	==CJH Electronic Resources Collection Development Policy==		==CJH Electronic Resources Collection Development Policy==

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	Also collected is documentation on genealogy and family history, antisemitism, political action groups, and later 19th and early 20th-century newspapers serving Jewish communities throughout the United States.		Also collected is documentation on genealogy and family history, antisemitism, political action groups, and later 19th and early 20th-century newspapers serving Jewish communities throughout the United States.

	===American Sephardi Federation===		====American Sephardi Federation====

	The American Sephardi Federation Library and Archives aims to consolidate and build a comprehensive repository for the preservation and transmission of Sephardic memory, including oral histories and genealogy, representing the richness of the different Sephardic communities. Holdings and services will reflect the overall mission of the American Sephardi Federation.		The American Sephardi Federation Library and Archives aims to consolidate and build a comprehensive repository for the preservation and transmission of Sephardic memory, including oral histories and genealogy, representing the richness of the different Sephardic communities. Holdings and services will reflect the overall mission of the American Sephardi Federation.
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	Other areas such as the Holocaust and antisemitism are collected selectively.		Other areas such as the Holocaust and antisemitism are collected selectively.

	===YIVO Institute for Jewish Research===		====YIVO Institute for Jewish Research====

	The Institute collects print and non-print materials, printed and electronic books, documents, photographs, films, sound recordings, artifacts, artworks, and ephemera relating to all aspects of Jewish history and culture around the world. Of particular interest are materials relating to the everyday life, culture and history of East European Jews and their descendants in the United States.		The Institute collects print and non-print materials, printed and electronic books, documents, photographs, films, sound recordings, artifacts, artworks, and ephemera relating to all aspects of Jewish history and culture around the world. Of particular interest are materials relating to the everyday life, culture and history of East European Jews and their descendants in the United States.
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	The holdings of the YIVO Institute reflect its collecting policies, overall mission and scholarly interests in the past 75 years. The collections concentrate on four main areas:		The holdings of the YIVO Institute reflect its collecting policies, overall mission and scholarly interests in the past 75 years. The collections concentrate on four main areas:

	#1. Yiddish language, literature and culture, including significant holdings on Yiddish theater and music.		#1. Yiddish language, literature, and culture, including significant holdings on Yiddish theater and music.
	#2. History and culture of East European Jews.		#2. History and culture of East European Jews.
	#3. History of the Jews in the United States, focusing on 20th-century immigration and acculturation.		#3. History of the Jews in the United States, focusing on 20th-century immigration and acculturation.
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	The primary languages of the documents are Yiddish, English, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, French, and German, with a significant collection in Ladino.		The primary languages of the documents are Yiddish, English, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, French, and German, with a significant collection in Ladino.

	===Yeshiva University Museum===		====Yeshiva University Museum====

	The Museum’s collection is comprised of over 6,800 artifacts and documents which represent the cultural, intellectual and artistic achievements of over 3,000 years of Jewish experience.		The Museum’s collection is comprised of over 6,800 artifacts and documents which represent the cultural, intellectual and artistic achievements of over 3,000 years of Jewish experience.