Historic Pittsburgh
View finding aids and photographs from the Rauh Jewish Archives.

Western Pennsylvania Jewish Cemetery Project
The Western Pennsylvania Jewish Cemetery Project, founded in 1998, preserves the names of over 40,000 Jews buried in more than 80 regional Jewish cemeteries.  The information, collected by dedicated volunteers, has been compiled in a database accessible by e-mailing Susan Melnick (smmelnick@hswp.org) and is being transferred to the Jewish Online Worldwide Burial Registry. Click here to see a partial list of completed cemeteries.

Hebrew Free Burial Cemetery, Corinne Azen Krause collection, undated

The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project
Provides access to digitized copies of The Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), The American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962), and The Jewish Chronicle (1962-Present). This project was made possible through the support of Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, the Rodef Shalom Congregation Archives, the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center , and the Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh and was underwritten in part by the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh.


Herman Fineberg, City Councilman Abe Wolk, and Henry Rivlin packing Torahs for Europe after World War II, c.1945