JSPS Historical Papers & Archival Documents

The Jewish Student Press Service (JSPS) was founded in 1971  as a wire service by and for Jewish students to provide quality news articles to the variety of independently published Jewish campus papers and magazines that were cropping up across the country. Though JSPS's publishing work today continues through New Voices Magazine (est. 1991), the articles published by the Press Service are a significant historical treasure trove, documenting the opinions, attitudes, political consciousness, and major questions on the minds of Jewish students from the 1970s-1990s. While many of the physical JSPS archives are housed at the Center for Jewish History, many documents remain in the hands of JSPS and New Voices Editors.

In an effort to make these resources publicly available to researchers, the public, and today's Jewish student journalists, we're attempting to digitize a selection of our archives into easily readable PDFs. Some of our selection was generously donated to New Voices by former JSPS editor Peter Silverman. We encourage our readership community to take a look at these amazing documents - and encourage students and researchers consider these items as prompts, bringing more Jewish writing into the world by citing, using, and remixing the writing of our previous generations of young journalists.

Click the links below to view scanned PDFs of these historical JSPS documents and read what the Jewish student journalists of decades past were writing about.

• "Attah" Student Newspaper: Madison, Wisconsin. December 1976.
• "Hayom" Paper: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 1976.
• JSPS "Jewish Press Features" Packet: September 1976.
• JSPS "Jewish Press Features" Packet: November 1976. (Final article separately viewable here)
• JSPS Feature: "Notes from the International Conference of Gay Jews," May 1977.

Digitized Editions of New Voices Magazine

• "The Sex Issue" October, 1999.