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The Pinkas Project

Cataloging records from Jewish immigrant communities.

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Chicago, IL

Shul-Pinkes of the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute

Published in 1948 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Chicago branch.

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A pinkas is a traditional ledger from a Jewish communal organization, often illuminated and calligraphed. The Pinkas Project is a collaborative effort to build an online catalog of pinkasim created in immigrant communities. The project’s goals are to learn more about how this practice spread and to spur scholarship about Jewish communal records. Learn more.

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We are eager to learn more about pinkasim created in all immigrant communities outside of Eastern Europe. (There is already significant scholarship around the original Eastern European pinkasim.)

Do you know about a pinkas not featured on this site? Do you have a research interest in this area? Please reach out!

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