30 | AUGUST 25 • 2022

OUR COMMUNITY

W

e have some
good news from
the Detroit
Jewish News Foundation
that we’d like to share with
you. The Foundation is
the owner and publisher
of the Detroit Jewish News
and home to the William
Davidson Digital Archive of
Jewish Detroit History.
First, in our efforts to
continually improve the
Jewish News Foundation
website, it has been
upgraded to be more
visually appealing and for
easier navigation. See the
revisions for yourself at
djnfoundation.org.
In addition, the
Foundation website is the
main portal to the William
Davidson Digital Archive.
Recently, there was a
significant enhancement
to the database — every
page of every issue from
the 2019, 2020 and 2021

Detroit Jewish News was
added to the Archive. The
Archive now holds more
than 340,000 pages in its
database. It is one of the
best online newspaper
archives in America and
one of the leading archives
for English-language Jewish
publications.
The Davidson Digital
Archive is also a permanent
collection at the Bentley
Historical Library at the
University of Michigan and
is hosted on U-M servers.
The Archive includes almost
every page of the Detroit
Jewish Chronicle from
1916-1951 — one month of
issues from 1916 cannot be
located — and every page
of the Detroit Jewish News,
from its first issue on March
27, 1942, to the last issue
of 2021. New issues will be
added every year.
The database is free and
open to the public. It has

The JN’s William Davidson Digital
Archive has been updated with more
pages and a refreshed website.

News from the
JN Archives

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