The Miriam Catalog and Repository

Welcome to NAJC

The purpose of the Miriam Catalog and Repository is to document the culture of North American Jews.

Who We Are

President NAJC
Alan Bailin, PhD, MLS

Professor of Library Services, Hofstra University

Treasurer
Ari Fridkis, MA, MSW

Rabbi, Temple of Universal Judaism

Secretary
Martha Kreisel, MA, MAH

Retired Associate Professor of Library Services, Hofstra University

Collection Director
Ann Grafstein, PhD, MLIS

Professor of Library Services, Hofstra University

 

Miriam Catalog and Repository

The purpose of the Miriam Catalog and Repository is to document the culture of North American Jews. North American Jewish Culture (NAJC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation.

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The Klezmatics - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
(YouTube, 2022-12-22) The Klezmatics
A recording of a complete performance by the Klezmatics, performed at the studio of radio station, KEXP. Click on the link to listen.
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How The Klezmatics Changed Music — and My Life
(The Forward, 2009-12-01) Rogovoy, Seth
The author of this article recounts a deeply personal story of how the Klezmer band, The Klezmatics, helped to forge his connection with his Jewish roots with his interest in contemporary music. The band was formed in 1986 and they have become the best-known Klezmer band, certainly in the United States. The group is both deeply rooted in Eastern European Yiddish musical tradition while also benefiting from an infusion of musical influences from jazz, rock, and folk music (including Woody Guthrie), along with a dose of political activism. The Klezmatics are the only Klezmer group to have won a Grammy, but, ironically for an album based on Guthrie's music rather than for one of their Yiddish albums. Click on the link to read the article.
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The Tulsa Race Massacre and Oklahoma’s Jews: Share How local Jews – some with fresh memories of European pogroms – did their small part to help victims of one of the worst acts of racial violence in US history.
(Aish, 2025-01-07) Goldfarb, Phil
This article recounts the Jewish role in helping the African American victims of one of the worst race massacres in American history. It took place in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hundreds of African Americans in a well-to-do community, were killed or injured, and many homes and businesses were destroyed. While few whites reached out to protect or help the victims, many Jewish families took them into their homes and businesses, bought them food and clothing, and hid them. Many of these Jewish families were recent immigrants from Eastern Europe, where they had experienced pogroms and other manifestations of antisemitism. The article describes several stories about specific incidents and the targeting of Jews by the Ku Klux Klan. Click on the link to read the article.
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Judith Lax May 7, 1924–April 19, 2022
(Jewish Women's Archive, 2025-01-14) Krupnick, Helene Herman
Judith Lax was a pioneering lay leader in the Conservative Jewish movement. At a time when women did not occupy leadership roles in the Conservative movement, Lax believed that “women should experience Judaism as fully as men do.” In 1971 she became the first female president of a Conservative congregation. She was also instrumental in women's participation in liturgical services, including allowing women to receive "aliyot" to the Torah. Click on the link to read the article.
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Twenty-First Century Jewish Literature by Women in the US
(Jewish Women's Archive, 2021-06-23) Skinazi, Karen E.H.
This article in the Jewish Women's Archive discusses the nascent area of literature created by Jewish women in the United States. The topics are very wide-ranging, but much of it focuses on the past, reinterpreted in a contemporary light and from a female perspective. All explore issues related to Judaism and Jewish identify. Click on the link to read the article.