Home

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi walking up a ramp in Burg Hohenzollern

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, among his many accomplishments, was the founder of Jewish Renewal.  Explore the Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi Papers

Alan Lew's Writings

Writings by Zen Priest and Rabbi Alan Lew. Lew founded Maker Or, the first Jewish meditation center attached to a synagogue, with Zen Master Zoketsu Norman Fischer.  Learn more about the Alan Lew Papers

Institute of Contemporary Midrash members in practice

The Institute for Contemporary Midrash was created to support the participation of contemporary midrash, a type of biblical interpretation, through visual, performing, and literary arts.  Learn more about the Institute of Contemporary Midrash Records

Arthur Waskow with a Torah Scroll

Rabbi Arthur Waskow is a scholar, author, and activist who published the groundbreaking work, The Freedom Seder in 1969.  Learn more about the Arthur Waskow Papers

The Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, in conjunction with the University Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collections, is building a collection of archival holdings focused on Judaism and the Jewish-American experience from roughly the late 1940s to the present. The material collected in the Innovations in Jewish Life Collections aims to shed light on the religious, cultural, and social movements of American Judaism as well as on the various philosophies of Judaism and Jewish organizations in the relevant period. Materials take the form of photographs, audio and video tapes, and written documents, which include correspondence, sermons, yearbooks and scrapbooks, memoirs, organizational records, and books in manuscript form, among other things. 

The Innovations in Jewish Life Collections exist to document the work of the individuals and groups, who transformed and in many cases are still transforming the American Jewish experience in the post-World War II period, and to make that experience accessible to students, researchers, and interested parties of all kinds. 

 

 

The Innovations in Jewish Life Collections is a partnership between the Program in Jewish Studies and University Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collections at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Program in Jewish Studies        Rare and Distinctive Collections 

Make an appointment to visit the IJL Collections!

Want to come visit the IJL Collections?

The Innovations in Jewish Life Collections are housed at the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries' Archives.  For information about scheduling a visit to conduct research in the IJL Collections, please follow the instructions on the Libraries website, or contact rad@colorado.edu for more information.

Request an Appointment