Below is a list of non-secular resources located in New York City for doing genealogical research on Jewish immigrants to the United States. Several organizations have online catalogs to their collections and some have digital collections of transcripts, documents, photographs, books, and ephemera that may be viewed online from any location.
- American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants
- American Jewish Historical Society (at the Center for Jewish History)
- American Joint Distribution Committee
- American Sephardi Federation (at the Center for Jewish History)
- Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute (at the Center for Jewish History)
- Center for Jewish History
The CJH has a unified catalog at search.cjh.org that will return results from the collections of its five partner organizations. Its free, online digital collections may be searched at access.cjh.org.
- HIAS – Hebrew Immigration Aid Society
- Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc.
The JGS has guides to New York City-area repositories, as well as New York State and beyond.
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Leo Baeck Institute (at the Center for Jewish History)
- Yeshiva University Library
In addition to the library (linked above), the Yeshiva University Archives contains other special collections relevant to genealogical research, including personal and institutional papers.
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (at the Center for Jewish History)
Like Yeshiva University, the YIVO Institute has a separate archives division, the YIVO Archives.