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Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project

The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project makes available more than one hundred years of Jewish newspapers published in Pittsburgh. Digitized page images capture daily life in Pittsburgh from the 1890s to 2010, with particular focus on Jewish communities. The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project is composed of the Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), the American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962), the Jewish Chronicle (1962-2010), and the Y-JCC series (1926-1975).






Play Index (H.W. Wilson)

Indexes classic and historical plays, along with the works of contemporary playwrights. Play Index covers new editions and translations, and includes descriptive annotations to summarize the plot and indicate musical requirements.


PressReader

This resource is available to CLP cardholders only.

PressReader is a digital newsstand featuring hundreds of the world’s most popular newspapers & magazines. Recent Pittsburgh Post-Gazette issues included. Limit publications by language or country to narrow your search and quickly find newspapers and magazines.



Readers’ Guide Retrospective

This resource is available to CLP cardholders only.

For over 100 years, Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature has become the ultimate index of subjects in the popular press, has earned the trust of researchers at all levels, and has been hailed by Library Journal as one of the “50 Best Reference Sources for the Millennium.” All the information from 44 Readers’ Guide annuals in a single database that you can search easily and precisely; access to over 3 million article citations from approximately 375 leading magazines; many of the articles are peer reviewed.