This collection contains correspondence, publications, books, photographs, newspaper articles, manuscripts, slides, and a CD disc and other media related to Jonathan Goldstein's 33-year teaching career at the University of West Georgia. Much of the material pertains to his research area of Jewish communities in Asia and includes rare serials, retained in his papers, pertaining to these communities.

Additional materials relate to speakers who he brought to campus as part of his teaching, including retired U.S. Marine Corps General and Congressional Medal of Honor winner Raymond Davis, photojournalist Robert Arnett, and “Enola Gay” navigator and retired U.A. Army Air Force Captain Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk.

The last addition of his papers include files he maintained, which include notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and more about an array of these communities, particularly in China. Also included in his papers are nearly comprehensive runs of rare serials, with articles written in English, Hebrew, and Russian: Bulletin (Igud yotsʼe Sin). Russian. / Igud iot︠s︡eĭ Sin = [Byuleṭin Igud yotsʼe Sin] and Israel-China Voice of Friendship.