Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives - Heinz History Center

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The Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives was founded in 1988 to collect, preserve, and make accessible the documentary history of Jews and Jewish communities of Western Pennsylvania.
The program is supported by Rauh Jewish Archives Endowment Fund at the Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, the Senator John Heinz History Center, and many generous donors.
The Rauh Jewish Archives holds more than 1,000 collections documenting the lives of Jewish people and and organizations, including dozens of congregations, institutions, and businesses and hundreds of families. Correspondence, diaries, memoirs, ledgers, minutes, scrapbooks, ephemera, audio tapes, photographs, and moving images are housed in archival containers and stored in a monitored, secure, and climate-controlled environment. Related artifacts are transferred to the History Center’s museum collections.
The collections are available for research in the reading room of the Detre Library & Archives of the History Center.
For more information, please email
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Seth Glick, Chair
Matt Cohen, Vice Chair
Ateret Cope, Secretary
Becca Ackner
Patti Anouchi
Maureen Kelly Busis
Estelle Comay
Hilary Daninhirsch
Meyer Grinberg
Susie Gross
Jedd Hakimi
Teddi Horvitz
Jill Joshowitz
Carole Kamin
David Knoll
Anita Kornblit
Donna Kruman
Orly Olbum
Ben Samson
Matt Sandler
John Spear
Lindsay Strassman
Adele Sufrin
Loren Vivio
Marcia Weiss
Evan Wolfson
Bobbi Zimmer-Kann
Alan & Barbara Ackerman (permanent ex-officio, past chair)
H. Arnold Gefsky (permanent ex-officio, past chair)
Stanley Levine (permanent ex-officio, past chair)
J. Robert Myers (permanent ex-officio, past chair)
Bernard Newman (permanent ex-officio, past chair)
Dr. Alexander Orbach (permanent ex-officio, past chair)
Adam Reinherz (permanent ex-officio, past chair)
Judith R. Robinson (permanent ex-officio, past chair)
Alan & Barbara Ackerman (Berkman Endowment Fund representative)
Dan Brandeis (Jewish Community Foundation director)
Melissa Hiller (ex-officio, American Jewish Museum director)
Catherine Loevner (ex-officio, Heinz History Center board liaison)
Richard E. Rauh (ex-officio, Rauh family representative)
Toby Tabachnick (ex-officio, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle editor)
Eric Lidji (Rauh Jewish Archives director)
Matt Strauss (Detre Library & Archives director)
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From 1989 until 1999, the Archives was supported by the United Jewish Federation (currently the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh), in-kind contributions of the Senator John Heinz History Center, and donors. In 1999, Richard E. Rauh created an endowment at the United Jewish Federation Foundation, and the Western Pennsylvania Jewish Archives was renamed the Rauh Jewish Archives (RJA). In 2004, through an agreement between the Jewish Federation Foundation, the RJA Advisory Committee, and the History Center, the RJA has become a program of the History Center, with the income from the RJA Endowment at the Jewish Federation Foundation has been directed to the History Center to support the work of the RJA.
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