About the Grayzel Digital Platform
In this digital age, why should archives still be confined to the institution that holds them?
The Grayzel Digital Platform is a project of Gratz College. Grayzel’s goal is to digitally reunite text, images, video, and music not only from the Gratz collection, but from related collections on early American Jewry and the Holocaust from around the world.
Named after historian and longtime Gratz professor, Solomon Grayzel, this site aims to spark users’ curiosity about Jewish history and help them understand the complexities of the Jewish experience in the modern world.
By combining the best of old library technologies and a new modular and open-source database, the Grayzel Digital Platform aspires to be a go-to resource for Jewish studies at all levels: researchers, scholars, and the public alike.
Thank you to the Josephine Cohen Charitable Foundation and the Barbara and Fred Kort Foundation for their generous endowments to establish the American Judaica Project and Holocaust Geniza Project, respectively. To learn more about the generous donors who have empowered this work or if you are interested in making a gift to sustain it, please, please visit our Donor page.
Explore the Collections
A digital library dedicated to the life’s work of Elie Wiesel (1928–2016): Nobel laureate, author of Night, and one of the most important human rights leaders in modern world history.
Rebecca Gratz (1781–1869) was a pioneer of American Jewish education, a philanthropist, and an avid writer. This collection features her personal correspondence as she navigated life in Philadelphia during the Early Republic.
Featuring over 900 interviews, the Holocaust Oral History Archive is among the first and largest collections of Holocaust testimony in the United States.
Dr. Lena Allen-Shore (1921–2018) was a prolific poet, educator, composer, and scholar. After surviving the Holocaust, she dedicated her life to promoting understanding and tolerance. This collection hosts her writing, correspondence, journals, and teaching materials, highlighting her diverse artistic and academic career. (COMING SOON)
The music collection curated by Eric Mandell (1902-1988) unites sheet music, books, and catalogs covering the span of Jewish musical history, with an emphasis on pre-war European liturgical and folk music