Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest

Jewish Historical Society staff and collections access will be very limited during the month of April. JHSUM is conducting a Collections Inventory and our archives will be closed to researchers during that time. Research requests will be filed in the order they are received beginning again the first week of May. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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