St. Louis, Missouri, is home to over 60,000 Jewish Americans. They trace their ancestry back through Germanic Europe, Slavic Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Mediterranean basin. St. Louis has been home to dozens of synagogues of all denominations: Reform, Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist, Renewal, and non-denominational, including the oldest synagogue west of the Mississippi River.
This LibGuide currently contains:
- Finding aids for Jewish related physical materials (books, periodicals, microform, etc.) in our library collection.
- Finding aids for Jewish primary sources from other countries that have been digitized and are available online.
- Jewish language guides, to assist with transcribing and translating genealogical records from both print Hebrew, cursive Hebrew, and print Russian.
- Records and record indexes for some St. Louis-area synagogues.
- Video tutorials on Jewish history and genealogy topics, produced by St. Louis County Library H&G.
