community center, academic and public
library professionals. Goal is to support
Judaic libraries, advance Judaic
literature and librarianship.

Mardigian Library

University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Road
Dearborn, MI 48128

(313) 593-5614
FAX: (313) 593-5561
Email: bkriigel@umich.edu
Website: holocaust.umd.umich.edu
Contact Person: Barbara Kriigel

Houses more than 150 interviews with
Holocaust survivors conducted by
professor Sidney Bolkosky. As
interviews are transcribed, the transcript
and accompanying audio portion are
made available at website.

Midrasha Library*

Agency for Jewish Education
21550 W. Twelve Mile Road
Southfield, MI 48076

(248) 354-1050

FAX: (248) 354-1068

Contact Person: Maxine McGliner

Books, periodicals, newspapers and
magazines in English, Hebrew and
Yiddish for research and general
interest.

Morris & Emma Schaver
Library/Archive

Holocaust Memorial Center
6602 W. Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322

Prentis Memorial Library

Walter P. Reuther Library

Temple Beth El
7400 Telegraph Road
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301

Wayne State University
541 Cass
Detroit, MI 48202

(248) 851-1100

(313) 577-4024
(313) 577-0451 Michael Smith
(313) 577-2658 Thomas Featherstone
FAX: (313) 577-4300
Contact Person: Michael Smith or Thomas
Featherstone

Over 7,500 volumes of Judaica, including
a rare book collection.

Purdy/Kresge Library at Wayne
State University

Judaica Collection
5244 Gullen Mall
Detroit, MI 48202

(313) 577-6424
FAX: (313) 577-4172
Website: http://www.lib.wayne.edu/purdy/
Contact Person: Sallie H. Ellison

General university research collection in
business, social sciences and
humanities.The Kasle Collection of
Judaica and Hebraica provides the core
of an extensive collection on the Jewish
religion and culture.

Temple Israel Libraries & Media
Center

5725 Walnut Lake Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48323

(248) 661-5700

FAX: (248) 661 1302

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Email: info@holocaustcenter.org
Website: holocaustcenter.org
Contact Person: Feiga Weiss, Judy
Rosenzweig

An international resource for study of
European Jewish history, the
Holocaust, Jewish geneology and
Judeo-Christian relations. Rare books,
documents, videos and John J. Mames
Oral History Department collecting
Holocaust testimonies.

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GENEALOGY

Jewish Genealogical Society of
Michigan

P.O. Box 251693
West Bloomfield, MI 48325-1693
(248) 355-4212
FAX: (248) 355-9267
Email: srosman@aol.com
Website: http://www.jgsmi.org
Contact Person: Stephen M. Rosman,
president

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Email: tilibrary@aol.com
Contact Person: Rachel Erlich, M.S.L.

Weinberg Family Library houses over
10,000 Judaic volumes. Hodari Family
Children's Library and Media Center
includes over 2,000 Jewish books, audio
and videotapes, compact discs and
computers with Judaic software.

(248) 661-0840

FAX: (248) 661 4204

Archives offer documents on 20th-
century labor and urban issues. Includes
unpublished records, published
materials, photographs, audio, visual
tapes and films. Also houses papers of
Leonard Simons Jewish Community
Archives.

Thelma Pollock Keller
Resource Center*

JARC
28366 Franklin Road
Southfield, MI 48034
(248) 352-5272
FAX: (248) 352 5279
Contact Person: Lynn Medow

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Workshops, lectures, field trips,
seminars. Information exchange. Learn
research techniques. Library resources
provide worldwide research
opportunities.

HISTORICAL RESOURCES

Jewish Historical Society of
Michigan

6600 W. Maple Road

West Bloomfield, MI 48322
(248) 626-5259
Contact Person: President Joan Braun

Documenting and publicizing of
Michigan Jewish Journal. Journal once a
year, exhibits, programs and tours.

A library and resource center
specializing in materials for people with
disabilities and their families.

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