American Jewish Historical Society

General note about the data

The data used in the map is primarily from documents in the collection and Federation-published items.  The map will display in most browsers but it may be easiest to use in Chrome.

Dates
Most of the dates in the date range refer to when we know the agency was being funded by Federation.  (Additional dates may exist in the history text itself)  Where there are gaps in dates for a particular agency it is because we have not yet found complete data on dates at individual locations. Most date ranges begin no earlier than the founding of Federation and end around the time of Federation’s merger with UJA in 1986, or in 1989 or 1991, depending on what source was used for information.  This does not mean the agency went out of existence or is no longer part of the UJA-Federation network; it may just be data that is currently incomplete. 

Images
The images are taken primarily from the collection itself.

Histories
Many of the histories in the pop-ups use information from two Federation publications: Golden Heritage, 1969; and This is your Federation, about 1966.  Other sources are listed, mostly as links to websites, finding aids, articles where you can look for additional quick information on the fly.  Much more detailed information about all of the agencies can be found within the collection, using the finding aid.

Maps – All of the Federation agency maps in the collection have been digitized and can be found here.

Links to New York Times articles – researchers without a subscription to the New York Times archives will find that some or all of the full articles to which some of the histories provide links are blocked. Therefore the full citation for the article is also included.

Completeness of Data
The dates, addresses, images and histories will continue to be added to until the map is complete, around the time the processing of the collection is finished, early fall 2015.