How to use this Site

The JTA Digital Archive runs on a Google search platform. As such, the keyword search works much like a search on Google's homepage. Type what you are interested in finding, and hit enter or search. For more options, hit "Refine your Search" and you will be offered more options like date ranges.

For your keyword search to be most effective, there a few things you should consider:

• As this is a closed site, there is a limited range of data which Google can use to learn how to recommend alternate results. So, be mindful of alternate spellings -- especially for proper nouns like people, places and holidays.
• Remember that significant dates or periods in modern Jewish history often did not acquire common names until long after their occurrence. For example, a search for "Holocaust" or "Kristallnacht" will not get you stories contemporaneous to those events.

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