Judaic Resources

Major Sites

• Academic Guide to Jewish History : major print and internet scholarly resources
• Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory
• An Academic Guide to Jewish History - major print and internet scholarly resources
• Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People - now merged with the National Library of Israel " They hold the archives of hundreds of Jewish communities, as well as of local, national and international Jewish organizations and the private collections of many outstanding Jewish personalities. The Archives now hold the most extensive collection of documents, pinkassim (registers) and other records of Jewish history from the Middle Ages to the present day."
• Early Hebrew Newspapers - Currently Halevan (1863 to 1886), Hamagid (1856 to 19033) and Havazelet (1863 to 1911) have been digitized. (Hebrew site)
• Hebrewbooks.org - "Hebrewbooks.org was founded in order to preserve old American Hebrew books that are out of print and/or circulation. Many American Rabbis wrote seforim (Hebrew books) in the early part of the 20th century. They have long since passed away and in many instances so has their holy work. Currently our mission has expanded to include all Torah Seforim ever printed. At Hebrewbooks.org you will be able to view and print the entire Sefer online." - can search and browse by author and title. Note this also includes journals.
• Hot Sites - Jewish
• Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
• Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity
• Jewish Book Council
• Jewish Directory - pull down menu to search for synagogues, schools etc.
• Jewish Law : examining Halacha, Jewish issues and secular law
• Jewish Studies Network discussion logs, preprint articles etc.
• Jewish Studies Resources by Nancy Pressman Levy, Princeton University Library
• Jewish Studies Web Site (Columbia University Libraries)
• Jewishnet
• Judaic Digital Library - texts are not free, but can use the site to search for texts on your topic
• Judaism and Jewish Resources page - large, well-organized site
• Judaism (Yahoo)
• Maven - Good index to Israeli and Jewish sites
• Nextbook: a gateway to Jewish culture, literature and ideas - provides a good listing of Jewish newspapers and magazines/journals.
• Ultimate Jewish/Israel link launcher - Over 4,500 Jewish links.
• Virtual Jerusalem
• Women's section

Others

• Academy of the Hebrew Language
• All About Jewish Theatre - information on Jewish theatre and performings arts including listings of currrent Jewish theatre, directory of organizations and over 4,000 articles, books, magazaiines, films, plays and links.
• American Jewish History on the Web - good links to information on Jews and the civil war
• American Jewish Press Association - directory of members - good links to Jewish journals, magazines and newspapers
• American Jewish Historical Society
• American Jewish Year Book - Index to Obituaries 1948-1998
• Archive of Judaism and Health Research
• Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center
• British Library Hebrew Collection
• Canadian Jewish Congress
• Canadian Institute for Jewish Research
• Center for Jewish Art
• Center for Jewish History
• Chabad Lubavitch
• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Dead Sea Scrolls - guide to critical editions as well as secondary material
• Dead Sea Scrolls - Scrolls from the Dead Sea : the ancient library of Qumran and modern scholarship - Library of Congress Exhibit
• Digitized Book Repository (Jewish National and University Library) - includes approximately 100 books to date
• Early Hebrew Newspapers - Halevanon (1863-1886) Hamagid (1856-1903)
• European Sephardic Institute
• Genizah On-Line Database -" The 140,000 fragments of Hebrew and Jewish literature and documents rescued from the The Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo cover every aspect of life in the Mediterranean area a thousand years ago "
• Holocaust web sites
• Holocaust Era assets - finding aids, bibliographies, research etc.
• Institute for Judaism and Civilization
• Internet resources for Jewish Latin America and the Caribbean
• Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Israel Union Catalog
• Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs - contains many documents about Jewish communities, relations with Israel, human rights etc.
• The Jerusalem Mosaic - Nice Images of Jerusalem
• Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons and Significant Others - program of the Jewish Health, Healing and Recovery Network of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services - see Library section for documents and bibliographies
• Jewish Bible Association
• Jewish Book : Material Texts and Comparative Contexts - online exhibit from the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
• Jewish Book Council
• Jewish Braille Institute
• Jewish Communities of the World
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain - very good guide to genealogical sources
• Jewish Gen: Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research
• Jewish Guide to the Internet by Diane Romm - provides updates to the printed guide of the same name
• Jewish Heritage Society in Russia
• Jewish Heritage Video Collection alphabetical and subject arranged list of 200 videos.
• Jewish Language Research Website - resource for the study of Jewish languages (Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Italian, Jewish English, and Jewish Neo-Aramaic etc.) and provides references to works on this topic and information on scholars in this area.
• Jewish Lists - for a comprehensive list of Jewish discussion groups and web sites, send a message to listserv@jtsa.edu with the text "Get Jewish lists"
• Jewish Museums and Museum Resources World Wide
• Jewish Music
• Jewish National and Hebrew University Sound Archive catalog - can search by tradition ( Ashkenazi, Italian, Yemenite, etc,) and can use the Hebrew and Yiddish song index to locate works.
• Jewish Press Site - full text versions of historical Jewish Newspapers - currently The Palestine Post,.The Bulletin de l'Alliance Israelite Universelle and Paix Et Droit are available
• Jewish Public Library of Toronto - good web links to Jewish periodicals on the internet, Canadian Jewish web sites, Jewish reference sources etc.
• Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism
• Jewish Virtual Library
• Jewish Wisdom Database - searchable guide to Jewish proverbs
• Jewish Web World Homepage
• Jewish Women's Archives - includes some primary texts (photographs, speeches and documents)
• Jews in the Southwest US - Bloom Southwest Jewish Archive
• Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry - can search the catalogue by topic, author, title etc. and view the exhibit
• J.O.I.N (Jewish Ozzies' Inter.Net : the electronic voice of the Australian Jewish Community
• Judaeo-Maghrebi literature - Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco
• Judaic Digital Library - can search, but need to purchase a subscription to see full text of books
• Judaica Americana : Ephemeral Pamphlets fro the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
• Judaica Libraries
• Judaica Libraries and Archives on the Web
• Judaica collection
• Judaica Libraries' HomePages and other Judaica resources
• Judaica Sound Archives - " is a major center for the collection, preservation and digitization of Judaica audio recordings."
• Judaism 101 - good general introduction to Judaism written from a traditional perspective
• Khirbet Qumran on the Web - index to images of the site, can search by coin type and object
• Learn Kabbalah.com - good overview of Kabbalah
• LEKKET - "a collection of basic articles on the subject of Jewish Studies. All the articles were selected and classified by academic committees from the different research fields of Jewish studies"
• Liberal Judaism in the Netherlands
• Libraries and Archives with Jewish Music Collections
• Library of Congress Subject Headings in Jewish Studies
• Meaning of Words: Marcus Jastrow and the Making of Rabbinic Dictionaries
• Manfred and Anne Lehmann Foundation
• Melton Centre for Jewish Education
• Middle East and Jewish World Databank - archive of news stories, journal articles, government documents and other data on Israel, Middle East and Judaic topics. Offsite assistance is provided. Members receive up to 1 hour of the Archivist's research time; cost otherwise is $10 with each additional hour $8 (students receive a discounted rate). 20 cents per page of photocopying for first 10 pages, thereafter 15 cents.
• My Bar Mitzvah/My Bat Mitzvah Resource Center
• The National Center for Jewish film - archive of Jewish films, Alphabetical list of films that be purchased or rented
• National Center for the Hebrew Language
• National Yiddish Book Center - resources for Hebrew teachers and students, also includes a guide to ulpanim in both Israel and America
• Navigating the Bible - introduction to the Hebrew Bible, including an interactive tutor for Bar/Bat Mitzvah with audio files for the Torah and Haftorah readings
• New Jewish Valuesfinder: a guide to values in Jewish Children's books - can search by author, title, subject, value etc. and limit to grade level, d ate, publisher and whether work won an award
• News about Jews - (from the Jewish Theological Seminary Digital Collections - . "Digitized images of 259 American newspapers from the Abraham and Deborah Karp Collection of Early American Judaica. These newspapers span the years 1782-1898." Can search by keyword.
• Online Books Page - Jewish Literature
• Orthodox Union
• Project Genesis
• Qiryat Sefer - National Bibliography of Israel
• Rabbinic Genealogy
• Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive - index to this collection over 25,000 Yiddish and other Jewish songs
• Royal Library, Copenhagen Judaica Collection - catalogue of holdings
• Second Temple Synagogues - a wonderful site devoted to the study of Second Temple Synagogues. Based on the author's PhD Thesis work, this includes images and literary archives.
• Shabbat - When it starts and ends
• Sholem Aleichem's life and work
• The South African Jewish Year Book Database - over 1,000 biographical entries on Jews in South Africa
• Shtetl, Yiddish Language Home Page
• Sources of Jewish Mysticism - excerpts from a number of key Kabbalah texts
• Spinoza - A dedication to Spinoza's Insights - Glossary, index, texts and web sites
• Synagogue directory - World-wide in scope
• Talmud Guide - If you only have the title of the chapter of the Talmud, you can use this guide to determine which tractate the title is found in. Note the titles are listed in Hebrew.
• This Day in Jewish History
• Treasures from the Jewish Cultural Renaissance in Germany 1898-1938 - images of books journals and photographs - includes Gershon Scholem, Franz Rosenzweig, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Martin Buber and Hayim Nahman Bialik
• Twice Blessed: The Jewish GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trangender) Archives Online
• Ulpan Directory - covers Israel and America
• Union of American Hebrew Congregations
• US Synagogues - directory by state
• Yad Vashem - Information on Yad Vashem and its services
• Yad Vashem - Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
• Yiddish Plays: An Annotated Bibliography (The Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays at the Library of Congress)
• Yiddish Sources in Historical Research - listing of archives, libraries, programmes, journals, bibliographies etc.
• Yizkor Books Online
• WebShas - search the Talmud by subject and keyword
• World Jewish Hospitals
• Zemerl - the interactive database of Jewish song - provides lyrics and information about Jewish songs
• Yiddish Books from the National Digital Library of Poland - over 200 Yiddish books

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