Joy Katzen-Guthrie's Heritage Tours
Alaska Jewish Resources & Links
Compiled by Joy Katzen-Guthrie

Photo ©Nome Jewish Congregation
I have expanded considerably this collection of links of Jewish Alaska and hope you will find the results helpful. You can be of much assistance to me by letting me know if you have discovered a Jewish Alaska resource. Or if you have a site or subject of your own that you would like me to include in this list, please share it with me as well, at joyfulnoise@earthlink.net. - Joy
- A Recollection of Civil Rights Leader Elizabeth Peratrovich, Letter to Governor Greuning, December 30, 1941
- About Alaska Commercial Company
- Alaska Airlines: Operation Magic Carpet
- Alaska Commercial Company
- Alaska Commercial Company Handbook, pdf file containing historical information, page 2
- Alaskan Embalming Law Faces Opposition, by Matt Volz, Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, February 11, 2005
- Alaska Jews to Get Jewish Museum, by Haviv Rettig, June 21, 2007, jewishworld.jpost.com
- Alaska Klezmer Band
- Alaska Klezmer Duo
- Alaska Jewish Historical Museum of Anchorage
- Alaskan Jews: A Commentary by Dr. Gerhard Falk
- Alaskan Jews Trying to Connect, by Tamar M. Sternthal, Boston Jewish Advocate
- Lubavitch Jewish Center Abandons Controversial Land Swap, Alaska Pride Blog Site, March 17, 2007
- Alaska, The Nazis, and the Jews, Anchorage Daily News
- Alaska pilot played role in Israeli airlift rescue, by George Bryson, Anchorage Daily News, July 15, 2007
- Alaska Territorial Guard, Wikipedia
- Alaska Town Dedicates Synagogue, By Tony Carroll, Juneau Empire, August 17, 2005
- Alaska's Digital Archives
- Alaska Timeline, Alaska Storyteller Photography
- Albert Faille Wilderness League, Dr. Norman E. Kagan, Director
- Alumni Profile: Northern Exposure, Columbia College Today
- American Jewish History: Alaska, Jonathan Likud Homepage
- American Jewish Yearbook: Alaska (HTML) or pdf document
- Anchorage Chabad
- Anchorage Congregation Beth Sholom
- Anchorage Downtown Walking Tour
- Anchorage Historical Highlights
- Anchorage Public Library: About Us, detials of library's founding by Zachary J. Loussac
- Are there Jews in The Yukon, Northwest Territories, or Alaska
- Beacon of Hope, Sanctuary: Alaska, the Nazis, and the Jews, Anchorage Daily News, by Tom Kizzia, May 16-19, 1999
- Ben Levi's Gold, a poem of the Alaskan Gold Rush by R. R. Strang, 1910
- The 'Best Boy' Meets 'Best Girl' in a Lubavitcher-Style Shidduch, Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, August 15, 1997
- A Bibliography for the History of Skagway, Alaska, and the Klondike Gold Rush, Tennessee Archaeology Net
- Bikes And Ice Blog
- Bikes On Ice, Mirabilis.ca
- Big Long Alaska Post, by Meron, a Jewish traveler to Alaska
- Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives, University of Arizona Manuscript Collection
- Bob Kaufman's Weblog of Life on Our Last Frontier
- The Cabin Boy Who Became A Millionaire, Pt. 2, Swedish Finn Historical Society Quarterly
- Canadian Jewish Links
- Chabad of Alaska
- Chabad of Anchorage
- Chayim's Farewell to Fairbanks, Congregation Ohr HaTzafon
- Chihuly: The Jerusalem Wall of Ice
- The Cool Jew Show: Jewish Life in Alaska
- Cooperation Between Israel and the State of Alaska
- Congregation Beth Sholom, Anchorage
- Congregation Or HaTzafon, Fairbanks
- Congregation Sukkat Shalom of Juneau
- Couple Brings Jewish Film Culture to Alaska Interior, Associated Press March 2, 2006
- Cruising Alaska, Jewish Style, Rachel Rome, Jewish Journal, July 7, 2000
- David Green, Anchorage
- Don't Miss the Boat: Halachic Guidelines of Kosher Cruises, Rabbi Zvi Goldberg, Star-K Kashrus Administrator, Fall 2005
- Does Noah Feldman deserve to be hated?, by Shmuley Boteach, Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2007
- Ernest Henry Gruening, Questia Encyclopedia
- Ernest Henry Gruening, Encyclopedia.com
- Ernest Gruening, Jewish Virtual Library
- Ernest Gruening, Alaska's Greatest Governor, by Claus M. Naske
- Ernest Gruening of Alaska, Alaska.edu
- Ethan Berkowitz, Wikipedia
- Explore North: Nome, Alaska
- Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Task-Force: Featuring Judith Kleinfeld, Fairbanks Jewish Congregation
- Fairbanks Congregation Or HaTzafon
- Festival brings Jewish film culture to Alaska Interior, Rachel D'Oro, Juneau Empire, March 2, 2006
- Film Festival Celebrates a Decade of Jewish Movies, Christi Hang, newsminer.com
- From Michael Chabon, Noir and Niftorim in the North, NPR.org, Fresh Air from WHYY, May 3, 2007
- For Alaska kids, big day on the bimah occurs in summer, by Pearl Salkin, Jewish Bulletin of Northern California
- The Frozen Chosen: New York Times Book Review of Michael Chabon's Yiddish Policeman's Union, April 29, 2007
- The Frozen Chosen, by Rabbi Sheryl Nosan, JewishJournal.com, May 23, 2003
- The Frozen Chosen, by Sue Fishkoff, jewish-holiday.com
- Funds to be raised in fun fashion for Jewish museum in Alaska, By S. Jane Szabo, Anchorage Daily News, October 24, 2004
- Glatt Kosher Alaska Cruises from Kosherica
- Goldstein takes first for Soldotna, Kenai Peninsula Online, September 7, 2003
- Governor's Ball: Mayor Weinstein Praises Governor, Stories in the News, Ketchikan, Alaska, January 27, 2003
- A Guide to the Jewish Pacific Northwest
- Happy Birthday, Yukon, Klondike Sun, Dawson City, Yukon, June 26, 2996
- Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America, by Ruth Gruber, Amazon.com
- Honoring Our Heritage: Goldstein’s extensive WWII collection helps preserve historic truth, University of Pittsburgh
- Hillel and Jewish Student Organizations, Alaska
- The Historic Alaska Building, Anchorage
- Holocaust: The Untold Story
- Holocaust Survivor Rachel Gottstein, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
- How Wyatt Earp Got Buried in a Jewish Cemetery
- Ice Bikers Follow Frozen Trail of Gold Rush, Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News, April 14, 2003
- In Alaska, a Real-life ‘Northern Exposure’, by Nathaniel Popper, The Jewish Daily Forward, Sep 17, 2004
- Ingenuity Helps Alaska Orthodox Jews Keep Kosher, AP, Dan Joling, AP
- Inside of Time: My Journey from Alaska to Israel, by Ruth Gruber, Amazon.com
- International Jewish Cemetery Project, Alaska
- Israeli emissary flies to Alaska so unusual family can emigrate, by Natalie Weinstein Jewish Bulletin of Northern California
- Israelis Laud Alaska sailor for 1947 Exodus mission, by Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, April 2, 2007
- It's Not Easy Being Green, by Vivi Abrams, JewishTimes.com, March 29, 2002
- James B. Gottstein Law Offices, Anchorage
James B. Gottstein Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
James B. Gottstein Additional Information
- Jay Rabinowitz Public Service Award, Alaska Bar Foundation
- Jay Ramras, Alaska State Representative, District 10, Fairbanks
- Jewish Alaska Blog by Zahava
- Jewish Alaska by Zahava
- Jewish and Kosher Alaska, Kosher Delight Jewish Online Magazine
- Jewish Community of Juneau (English translation)
- Jewish Community of Juneau (French)
- Jewish Community Online: Rabbi Harry Rosenfeld
- The Jewish Experience of the Great White North, October 9, 2006, frumsatire.wordpress.com
- The Jewish Homeland in Alaska?, November 18, 2003, allisonkaplansommer.blogmosis.com
- Jewish Identity Stronger in Alaska, Heather Camlot, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
- Jewish Life In Alaska, Kesher Talk, April 6, 2002
- Jewish Politicians in Alaska
- Jews in Nome
- Jews in the Wild West
- Jewish Life in Alaska, Kesher Talk, April 6, 2002
- Jewish Population in America, American Jewish Yearbook, 1991 (pdf document)
- Jewish Population in America, American Jewish Yearbook, 2003 (pdf document)
- Jewish Rapper Draws Crowd, by Cara Christiansen, KTUU-TV, Anchorage, June 22, 2007
- Jewish Sect Sends Team Into Wilds of Alaska, Associated Press, August 9, 2003
- Jewish Traditions to Find New Place at Shabbat Table, Seattle Times, December 2004 (pdf document)
- Jewish Web Index, State by State
- Jewish Women's League (Fairbanks) Records, 1957-1963, American Jewish Archives
- Jewries at the Frontier, Gilman & Shain, Eds., Google Book Search
- Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict, by Sander L. Gilman
- Jewries at the Frontier, Accommodation, Identity and Conflict (Review): An article from: American Jewish History (Digital)
- "Jewskimos" welcome novel highlighting Alaska Jews, by Yereth Rosen, Reuters UK, June 11, 2007
- JuneauAlaska.com, Visitor Guide, Jewish Community of Juneau
- Juneau, Alaska Walking Tour
- Juneau Area Spirituality Guide, Jewish Community of Juneau
- Juneau Congregation Sukkat Shalom
- Juneau Jewish Community Dedicates Center, Juneau Empire, August 14, 2005
- Juneau Jewish Community Observes Yom Kippur, Juneau Empire, September 12, 2002
- Justice Jay Rainbowitz Dies
- The King-Havenner Bill of 1940: Dashed Hopes for a Jewish Immigration Haven in Alaska, By Hannah L. Mitson, January 1, 1998
The King-Havenner Bill of 1940: Bibliography
- Klondike Cemetery Restoration, Jewish Heritage Report, Spring-Summer 1998
- Klondike Gold Rush
- Klondike Jewish Cemetery Restoration Project
- Land of the Lost, Interview of Michael Chabon about his new novel, by Sara Ivry, May 7, 2007, nextbook.org
- The Last Frontier: Jewish Pioneers in Alaska, Alaska Genealogy Books (Listing #42)
- Lighting Candles Where the Sun Doesn't Set, by Simcha Layah Zaklad, Stepping Stones, 1999
Lighting Candles Where the Sun Doesn't Set, by Simcha Layah Zaklad, Stepping Stones, 1999
- Lewis Gerstle, Sierra Foothill Magazine
- Looking for love in the Lower 48 -- Alaska Jay gets lucky, by Enid Weiss, Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, October 16, 1998
- The Long Shalom, Book Review, Boston Globe, May 6, 2007
- Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Anchorage Daily News, May 2007
- Michael Chabon, New York Times Book Review of Michael Chabon's Yiddish Policeman's Union, April 29, 2007
- Middle East Outreach Council Goes to Alaska, by Jonathan Friedlander, Outreach World
- Mikveh: A Jewish Institution ahead of its time, Alaska's First Mikveh
- Mikvah-Less In Alaska, by Harriet Gold Cabelly
- Minister of Colonies, Time Magazine, August 27, 1934
- Mishpacha Junior Magazine Interviews Junior Shlucha from Alaska, Shmais News Service, Feb 21, 2006
- Moose in the mikvah is no sweat for Alaskan Jews, by Sue Fishkoff, Jerusalem Post Service
- Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
- National Museum of American Jewish History
- National Museum of American Jewish History (History of Exhibitions)
- National Register of Historic Places, Anchorage
- Northern Enclosure: Michael Chabon's Novel Posits a Jewish Homeland In Alaska, by Benjamin Anastas, Bookforum, April/May 2007
- Northern Exposure: Columbia College Today, Alumni Profile
- Northern Exposure, Jewish Daily Forward, June 20, 2007
- No Safe Havens, Mountain Xpress, April 28, 1999
- Not Like Egypt: Passover in Alaska, by Joan Nathan, NY Times, April 8, 1998
- Novel involving Alaska Jewish colony is rooted in history, by Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News, April 26, 2007
- Pacific Northwest Council, Union For Reform Judaism
- Philanthropist Reaches Out To Jewish Alaska, The Jewish Press, June 27, 2007
- Rabbi Abraham Garmaize, Mat-Su Jewish Center in Religious Services, Education and Social functions in Matsu Valley
- Rabbi Lenore Bohm at Stillpoint Lodge Center for Creative Renewal, Hallibut Cove, September 25-28, 2008
- The Rebbe Writes: Rosh Chodesh Sivan, 5734 [1974], Chaplain, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska
- Reflecting on a life with U.S., Israeli Leaders, by Jerry Tallmer, Downtown Express, April 9, 2003
- Robert and Jessie Bloom Papers, Inventory
- Rochlin (Harriet) Collection of Photographs of Western Jewish Life, ca. 1845-1991, Online Archive of California
- Russians and East Europeans in America, Russian Alaska
- Ruth Gruber, Jewish Virtual Library
- Ruth Gruber: Advocate for the Immigration of Jews fleeing Hitler and a Journalist, by Seymour “Sy” Brody, Florida Atlantic University Libraries
- Ruth Gruber To Discuss Her New Book At Museum Of Jewish Heritage, huliq.com
- Ruth Gruber Writings: Confronting Terror in the 21st Century
- Sanctuary: Alaska, the Nazis, and the Jews, Anchorage Daily News, by Tom Kizzia, May 16-19, 1999
- A Sculpture of Courage, by Sally Friedman, Extension of Remarks in the House of Representatives, July 27, 1989
- Shari Kochman, Deputy Legislative Director for Gov. Knowles, Board Secretary for Juneau Jewish Community
- Sitka Community Resource Guide
- Sitka Historical Society & Museum
- Solomon Ripinsky, Sheldon Museum & Cultural Center, Haines, Alaska
- Small-Town Jews Find Life in a Sea of Christians Challenging, New Standard, October 11, 1997
- Stillpoint Lodge Center for Creative Renewal in Hallibut Cove
- Stillpoint Lodge Features Rabbi Lenore Bohm, September 25-28, 2008
- Synagogues at Extreme Latitudes
- Two Women Rabbis Will Fill Pulpits, Andrea Adelson, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 2004
- Union For Reform Judaism Pacific Northwest Council
- Unit Company, ABM’s Pick for Contractor of the Year, February 4, 2004, Alaska Business Monthly
- US Considered Shelter For Jews In Alaska, NPR's Weekend Edition, Saturday, May 12, 2007
- Washingtonian honored in Alaska, by Diana Brement, JTNews.net, January 19, 2007
- Weaving Women's Words: Meta R. Buttnick, Seattle Stories, Jewish Women's Archive, 2004
- Weinstein Longest Serving Ketchikan Mayor, Stories in the News, Ketchikan, Alaska, November 29, 2006
- What Rights to Land Have the Alaska Natives? by William L. Hensley, May 1966, a paper written for Judge Jay Rabinowitz
- Wyatt Earp
- Yiddish Policeman's Union, by Michael Chabon
- Yiddish Policeman's Union, by Michael Chabon, New York Times Book Review, April 29, 2007
- Yukon & Canada Jewish Communities
- Yukon Territory Jewish Communities
- Zachery Joshua "Z.J." Loussac, Anchorage Library
- Zahava's Jewish Alaska Blog
- Zahava's Jewish Alaska

