L'Dor V'Dor
L’Dor V’Dor, newsletter of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society is published and sent to all NJHS members twice yearly. The newsletter includes various articles of interest regarding the history of our Jewish community and activities.
Journals
The first volume of Memories of the Jewish Midwest, a publication of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society, was printed in 1985. Additional editions have been published throughout the years on various topics of interest. All members of the Society are sent one free copy of this journal when available.
Brandeis Store Empire
In 2008, The Nebraska Jewish Historical Society completed a documentary video of the Brandeis family and department store. The documentary chronicles the Brandeis family from early ancestors to Department Store Empire. For a century, J.L. Brandeis & Sons ruled the department store market in Omaha, serving hundreds of thousands of customers yearly. Advertisements of the period billed the downtown store as “the greatest store in the West.”
Jewish South Omaha
Memories of the Jewish Midwest, Jewish South Omaha, Founding a Neighborhood, Fostering a Community Volume 13 - Summer 2006/5766
This 55 page volume, dedicated to Irv Sherman, is a collection of interviews of people with connections to South Omaha. The stories begin with new Americans drawn to South Omaha because packinghouses needed workers in the 1890s to the 1930s. Stories continue with Jewish entrepreneurs and their children telling of their ownership and innovations in independent meatpacking operations in South Omaha beginning soon after World War I until current times.
WWII Veterans
History & Stories of the Jewish Midwest. Journal of the NJHS Volume 12, Summer 2003/5763
Council Bluffs
History & Stories of the Jewish Midwest. Journal of the NJHS Volume 15, Summer Fall 2017
Grocery
Memories of the Jewish Midwest, Mom and Pop Grocery Stores, Volume 14 was published in November of 2011. The book celebrates and documents the Jewish grocery stores that operated in Omaha, Lincoln, Council Bluffs, Greater Nebraska and Southwest Iowa. The almost 200 page book is filled with photographs and recollections of Jewish grocers and members of the families who operated stores throughout the area from the early 1900s to the present.
The book was a dream of Dr. Ben Nachman, a NJHS volunteer whose father owned a small store in Omaha. Dr. Nachman died in 2010; publication of the book is dedicated in his memory.
