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Book Reviews 175 WESTERN JEWISH HISTORY CENTER: GUIDE TO ARCHIVAL AND ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS. By Ruth Kelson Rafael with a foreword by Moses Rischin. Berkeley: Western Jewish History Center, Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, 1987. 225 pp. Softbound $28.50. Order from: Magnes Museum Order Dept., 2911 Russell Street, Berkeley, CA 94705. A CATALOGUE OF AUDIO AND VIDEO COLLECTIONS OF HOLOCAUST TESTIMONY. Compiled by Esther Katz and Joan Ringelheim. New York: The Institute for Research in History, 1986. 238 pp. Softbound, $27.50. Order from: The Institute for Research in History, 1133 Broadway, Room 923, New York, NY 10010. Scholars of American Jewry and the Holocaust, and others interested "in an historical presence in our lives" (Rischin, Guide, i), may now find their way to hundreds of oral history interviews with American Jews thanks to the publication of these two recent catalogues. These important ven- tures were made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which gave a two-year grant to the Western Jewish History Center, and by the Goldsmith Foundation, which granted funds to The Institute for Research in History. The Guide to material at the Western Jewish History Center lists three hundred archival and manuscript collections and includes entries for ninety-five oral history interviews. The oral history section is divided into six series: California Jewish Community; Jewish Lives and Experience; Northern California Jews from Harbin, Manchuria; Petaluma Jewish Com- munity Oral History Project; San Francisco Jews of Eastern European Origin, 1880-1940; and Western Portraits. A beautifully designed and printed...
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