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

Photo ©Nome Jewish Congregation
Latest Update: June 14, 2011 to add new resources. You'll find some 250 links on this page. I am always seeking to expand my links to 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 Glacial Shabbat, Carol Tice, Aish.com
- 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 Airlines responds to tefillin incident, Uriel Heilman, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 15, 2011
- 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: The Final Frontier, Henry and Elaine Levy, Jewish Post
- Alaska's Digital Archives, Seder 1949, Adak Alaska
- Alaska's Digital Archives, Seder Table All Set
- Alaska Digital Photograph Archives
- Alaska's Jews, 1960 [pdf document]
- Alaska Jews to Get Jewish Museum, by Haviv Rettig, June 21, 2007, jewishworld.jpost.com
- Alaska Klezmer Band
- Alaska Klezmer Duo
- Alaska Klezmer Duo: Freylachs For Two (CD)
- 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
- Alaska's Jews May be Isolated and Few ... Kalene Johnson, March 2008, Alaska Inside [pdf document]
- Lubavitch Jewish Center Abandons Controversial Land Swap, Alaska Pride Blog Site, March 17, 2007
- Alaska, The Nazis, and the Jews, Anchorage Daily News
- Alaska Part IV: In search of a shabbat minyon, This &That Blog Spot, June 10, 2011
- 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
- An Alaskan Jew in Israel Blog Site
- 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
- Creating the "In-Between" A Playwriting Exchange Between Students in Philadelphia and Ketchikan Alaska, marshapincus.com, April 23, 2009
- 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 Gruening (See Gruening)
- Ethan Berkowitz, Wikipedia
- Explore North: Nome, Alaska
- Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Task-Force: Featuring Judith Kleinfeld, Fairbanks Jewish Congregation
- Fairbanks Congregation Or HaTzafon
- Fairbanks Historic Preservation Plan, 2007 [pdf document]
- 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
- Finesilver's Gold, A new novel by Ruth Shallet Littman, based on stories of her grandparents, who were among the first Jews to enter Alaska with the Gold Rush in 1894
- 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
- Genealogy fo Beginners: Helpful suggestions for those seeking genealogical information for family and ancestors
- A Glacial Shabbat, Carol Tice, Aish.com
- 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
- Gruening, Ernest • Ernest Gruening
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
- 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
- Hensley, Willie • Willie Hensley (Hensley is of Inupiat and Jewish ancestry; his father was a pioneering Jewish merchant in Alaska):
50 Faces for America's Future, See Page 8, August 6, 1979, Time Magazine
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People, Release date December 23, 2008, by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People, a new memoir by Willie Hensley, bookforum.com
Alaskan Natives Gain Political Punch
Board of Trustees Chair Willie Iggiagruk Hensley honored by Alaska Senators, First Alaskans Institute
Honoring Willie Hensley, GovTrack.us
The Impact of the Pipeline on Alaska Natives, PBS.org
Interview with Willie Hensley, Lit Site Alaska
Legislation to Help Alaska Natives Keep Land, Hal Spencer, February 7, 1988, New York Times
Native Claims Act Pioneers to Retire, Elizabeth Bluemink, December 12, 2007, Anchorage Daily News
What Rights to Land Have the Alaska Natives? by William L. Hensley, May 1966, a paper written for Judge Jay Rabinowitz
Willie Hensley Biography, Alaskhool
- 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
- It's Not New York, It's Not L.A., It's Small Town Jewish USA, by Dara Kahn, B'nai B'rith, Spring 2011
- 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
- JewAlaska Blogger
- JewAlaska: One of Hashem's Frozen Chosen Blog Site
- 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)
- The Jewish Experience of the Great White North, October 9, 2006, frumsatire.wordpress.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)
- The Jews in Alaska: 1867-1880, by Rudolf Glanz
- Jews in Nome, alaska.net
- Jews in Remote Corners of the World, by Ida Cowen
- "Jewskimos" welcome novel highlighting Alaska Jews, by Yereth Rosen, Reuters UK, June 11, 2007
- Jews who cruise: I’m now a member of the floating faithful, Dan Pine, jweekly.com, November 30, 2007
- Joy Greisen Jewish Education Center, Anchorage
- JuneauAlaska.com, Visitor Guide, Jewish Community of Juneau
- 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
- Life on the Frontier: The Jews of Alaska, by Bernard Reisman
- 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, 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
- The New Jewish Experiential Book, by Bernard & Joel Reisman
- Nome International Jewish Cemetery Project, International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
- Nome Jewish History, Sue Steinacher and KJ Graham, Nome Nugget
- No Place Like ... Nome: Alaska chills out in the summer heat, Ben G. Frank, Jewish Exponent, July 24, 2008
- 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
- North to Alaska: There's Lots of Warmth in Alaska, Joannie (Henya) Tansky, chabad.org
- 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
- Oh, That Wild Life in Alaska! Susan Perloff, Jewish Exponent, April 27, 2011
- Pacific Northwest Council, Union For Reform Judaism
- Philanthropist Reaches Out To Jewish Alaska, The Jewish Press, June 27, 2007
- Profile: Michael Chabon, Hadassah Magazine, October 2007
- Profile: Ruth Gruber, Hadassah Magazine, February 2001
- 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 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
- Strength in Low Numbers ... Kalene Johnson, March 2008, Alaska Inside [pdf document]
- Synagogues at Extreme Latitudes
- Tsaina Lodge, Lisa Wax, owner: receiving raves from The American Israelite weekly for its beauty, native artifacts, and its outstanding restaurant.
- 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
- 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
- Willie Hensley (See "Hensley")
- 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

