Sacred Texts

General

Bar Ilan Responsa Project
This database includes Torah, Talmud, codes, and commentaries in addition to works of responsa. Texts are available in Hebrew only. Basic searching is available to anyone, but advanced features are only available on the HUC campuses or through the Jewish Studies Portal.
http://www.responsa.co.il/

Sacred Jewish Texts at Snunit
This Hebrew site includes the Hebrew texts of the Tanakh, Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud (Babylonian, and Jerusalem), Tosefta, and Mishneh Torah. Click one of the texts listed below the title. When viewing a text, you can highlight a word and them click on the dictionary icon floating on the left side for the English definition.
http://kodesh.snunit.k12.il/

Mechon-Mamre
This site has the Tanach in Hebrew and English, Onqelos, and RaMBam's Mishneh Torah, Mishnah, Talmud, and Tosefta.
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/index.htm

Rabbinic

E-Daf
This site has images of Talmud pages with audio files in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
http://www.e-daf.com/

Seforim Online
This site focuses on the works of the Rishonim and Acharonim
http://seforimonline.org/

Modern works

HebrewBooks.org
"Hebrewbooks.org was founded in order to preserve old American Hebrew books that are out of print and/or circulation ... [their] mission has expanded to include all Torah Seforim ever printed"
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/

Digitized Ladino Library
The Sephardi Studies Project at Stanford University has digitized and posted several texts including: Kanunname de Penas, Yisrael, Reuven Eliyahu, Traduksyon Livre de las Poezias de Rosh ha-Shana i Kippur; Jerusalmi, Isaac, From Ottoman Turkish to Ladino; Risâle, Alschech, Josef, The Selihoth of the Sephardim; Jerusalmi, Isaac, The Song of Songs in the Targumic Tradition.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/mediterranean/seph_project/index.html

Prayers & Prayerbooks

Early American Reform Prayerbooks
In the United States in the 1800's, many congregations saw the need for new prayerbooks. They wanted shorter services, translations of the prayers, less repetition and to incorporate European elements of reform as well as American values. The HUC-JIR libraries have many examples of these prayerbooks and as well as congregational hymnals. - See more at: http://huc.edu/libraries/collections/ebooks/earlyreformlit.php#sthash.JrBaBh8k.dpuf
http://huc.edu/libraries/collections/ebooks/earlyreformlit.php

Catalona Mahzor
Mahzor for Rosh Ha-Shana and Yom Kippur according to the Spanish Catalonian Rite. It is dated approximately 1280. From the collection of the National Library of Israel
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/heb6527/index_eng.html

Yizkor (Memorial Books) at New York Public Library
There are hundreds of books available as pdf files on this site.
http://yizkor.nypl.org/

Project Ben-Yehuda
This Hebrew site has texts of Hebrew poetry and literature that is in the public domain
http://www.benyehuda.org/

Sacred Jewish Poetry
Includes the texts of piyutim as well as sound file examples.
http://www.piyut.org.il/english/

Menasseh Ben Israel
Scanned images of books printed by this early Dutch publisher
http://cf.uba.uva.nl/en/collections/rosenthaliana/menasseh/books.html

Legends of the Jews / Louis Ginzberg
V. 1-4
http://philologos.org/__eb-lotj/

Berman Jewish Policy Archive
BJPA is the central electronic address for Jewish communal policy. BJPA offers a vast collection of policy-relevant research and analysis on Jewish life to the public, free of charge, with holdings spanning from 1900 until today.
http://www.bjpa.org/

Jewish Data Bank
The Data Bank archives and makes available electronically questionnaires, reports and data files from the National Jewish Population Surveys (NJPS) of 1971, 1990 and 2000-01. The Data Bank is the sole distributor of the NJPS 2000-01 dataset, and has archived a large collection of related materials. In addition to the NJPS studies, the Data Bank provides access to other national Jewish population reports, Jewish population statistics and approximately 200 local Jewish community studies from the major Jewish communities in North America. http://www.jewishdatabank.org/

Dictionaries

Jastrow online / at Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies
http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/jastrow/
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature

Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
You can search the database for word definitions or browse the texts.
http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/

American Sign Language
http://www.aslpro.com/

Maps

Ancient Maps of Jerusalem
Since the first printed map of Jerusalem appeared in the late 15th century until the beginning of the nineteenth century, when maps began to be based on accurate surveys, more than 300 maps of Jerusalem were designed and printed.
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/maps/jer/

Ancient Maps of Jerusalem
From the Eran Laor Cartographic Collection
http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/maps/pal/html/

Newspapers

Early Hebrew Newspapers Project / The Jewish National and University Library, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project
Includes: Halevanon, Hamagid, Havazelet, Havazefira, Hameliz, Hazevi/Haor/Hashkafah
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/newspapers/eng.html

Compact memory - Internetarchiv Juedische Periodika
Includes over 100 German Jewish journals from between 1806 and 1938
http://www.compactmemory.de/

Exilpresse Digital
This German site has 30 Jewish German newspapers published between 1933-1945. Includes Aufbau and Die Zeitung
http://deposit.ddb.de/online/exil/exil.htm

Zeitschrift fur hebraische Bibliographie
1896-1921
http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/catalog.php?IdentPerio=NP00569

Jewish Community Chronicle (Long Beach & Orange Co., Calif.)
February 1, 1947 through December 20, 2000
http://jewishchronicle.library.csulb.edu/

Southern Israelite
Established in 1925 in Augusta Georgia, the Southern Israelite changed owners and formats over the years. In 1987, the paper changed its name to the Atlanta Jewish Times.
http://israelite.galileo.usg.edu/israelite/search

Jewish Herald (Houston, Texas)
Founded in 1908 by Edgar Goldberg, The Jewish Herald was “a weekly publication, devoted to matters of interest to the Hebrew citizens of Houston.”
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93068209/

Pittsburg Jewish Newspaper Project
The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project is composed of the Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), the American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962), the Jewish Chronicle (1962-present), and the Y-JCC series (1926-1975).
http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/pjn/index.jsp

Proquest Historical Newspapers
Full text searchable versions of: The American Israelite (1854-2000), The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857-1922), and The Jewish Exponent (1887-1990) are available from the HUC campus only through Proquest.
http://search.proquest.com/news/?accountid=145232

Lists of Sources

Halacha Brura and Birur Halacha Institute
This Hebrew site has an extensive list of online Biblical and rabbinic sources.
http://www.halachabrura.org/alephlink.htm

Judaica Electronic Resources / by JNUL List sites with full text books, electronic forums, databases, full text journals, and scholarly Jewish portals
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/ejudaica.html

While the Library thinks that these sites are useful, their content is not under our control and may express views that are not shared by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

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