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- Center for Jewish HistoryA research institution, whose archives comprise the world’s largest and most comprehensive archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel.
- H-JudaicJewish Studies network, including listserv
- Jewish History Resource CenterFrom the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jewish Internet Guidethe only current print directory of Jewish sites on the Web.
- Words like Sapphires: 100 years of HebraicaOnline exhibit from the Library of Congress collections
Online Text and Media Archives
- The Berman Jewish Policy ArchiveOpen access to a growing library of 20,000+ policy-relevant Jewish communal documents from leading authors, journals, and organizations.
- The Eran Laor Cartographic CollectionThe Eran Laor Cartographic Collection is a physical and virtual collection of maps. The heart of the collection comprises ancient maps, atlases and travel books to the Holy Land and as such, it is the largest of its kind in the world.
- Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place"The goal of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place is a database to track the circulation of printed "Jewish books" (in Hebrew, other Jewish languages, and books in Latin and non-Jewish vernaculars with Judaica contents)."
- Hebrew Books.org"over 1,000 Rare and out of Print Seforim and Journals for FREE online. All seforim are downloadable and printable."
- Kotar LibraryA major repository for Hebrew language ebooks.
- Ktivcontains nearly 4.5 million images from 45,000 manuscripts — slightly more than half of all known volumes. They include prayer books, biblical texts and commentary, philosophy, literature and scientific writings, in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic and more - handwritten Jewish texts from Spain to Afghanistan, which have been digitized and catalogued online.
- National Yiddish Book CenterFull text of out-of-print Yiddish books
- Otzar HaHochmaOnline library of Judaic books, containing over 41,500 books (seforim).
- Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck InstitutsThis important series for German-Jewish history is now openly available through Mohr Siebeck.
- Soncino Classics Collectionclassic works of Judaism: the Talmud, Midrash rabbah and Zohar are presented on one CD, in the original Hebrew and Aramaic, complete with the authoritative Soncino English translation.
- Steinschneider Bibliographic Databasebased on Die hebräischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher; bibliographical study of over 1100 medieval Hebrew manuscripts composed during the golden age of Jewish philosophy and science.
- American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger, The (1857-1922)One of ProQuest's American Jewish Newspapers
- The American Israelite (1854-2000)One of ProQuest's American Jewish Newspapers
- Aufbau 1951-2004Founded in 1934 and published in New York until 2004. Contributors included many of the most prominent German literary, political, and scientific figures in exile. Prior years are in the Exilpresse archive (see below).
- Compact MemoryJewish periodicals from 1806-1938
- Exilpresse Digital (Digital Exile Press)Deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933-1945
- Historical Jewish PressThis site contains a collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods.
- The Jewish Advocate (1905-1990)One of ProQuest's American Jewish Newspapers
- The Jewish Exponent (1887-1990)One of ProQuest's American Jewish Newspapers
- Blavatnik ArchiveCollections in Modern Jewish History & Culture, World Wars I & II, and Soviet Russia
- Dartmouth Jewish Sound ArchiveMusical and spoken recordings, including in Yiddish
- Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale University)If you wish to access this archive off campus, you must do so with the Hopkins VPN, as no single sign on currently exists.
- USC Shoah Foundation Visual History ArchiveIncludes more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide.