Jewish Genealogy

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.

This LibGuide currently contains:

• Finding aids for Jewish related physical materials (books, periodicals, microform, etc.) in our library collection.
• Jewish language guides, to assist with transcribing and translating genealogical records from both print Hebrew and cursive Hebrew.
• Video tutorials on Jewish history and genealogy topics, produced by St. Louis County Library H&G.