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| Name | Nature of Resources | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| 929-Tanakh be-yahad | This resource is a project similar to Daf Yomi, going through one chapter of the Bible a day, with text and audio commentaries. Available in Hebrew or English. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Bible, Primary sources |
| Aramaic Targum of Shir Ha-Shirim | This resource is an English translation of the Aramaic translation of Shir Ha-Shirim by Jay C. Treat. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Bible, Midrash, Tanakh, Tanach |
| Bible Hub | This resource is organized by Bible verse and include commentaries, definitions of terms, multiple translations and more. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Bible, Tanakh, Tanach, Reference, Dictionary |
| CDLI Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative | CDLI hosts about 500,000 images and/or translations of cuneiform texts. It also includes references to help Near Eastern studies. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Manuscripts, Photographs |
| Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon | This Lexicon includes every dialect of Aramaic from the 9th century BCE through the 13th century CE. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary sources, Bible, Tanakh, Tanach, Reference, Dictionary |
| Dead Sea Scrolls Project | The Dead Sea Scrolls Project provides free access to a searchable database of very high quality images of the Dead Sea Scrolls | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary sources, Bible, Manuscripts, Photographs |
| Digital Dead Sea Scrolls | This site offers descriptions of the Dead Sea Scrolls with images. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary sources, Bible, Manuscripts, Photographs |
| Early Christian Writings | This collection of Christian writings 30-380 in English translation is searchable and browsable by date range and type of work. It also includes links to commentaries and analysis of these works. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary sources, Bible |
| Early Jewish Writings | This is a collection of Jewish writings in English translation: Tanakh, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Philo of Alexandria, Josephus. It is searchable and browsable by name of work and includes links to commentaries and analysis of these works. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary sources, Bible, Tanakh, Tanach |
| Early Church Fathers | This is a full text of collection of early Christian works through 325 CE (electronic version of Early Church Fathers). Access it through the browse function in the table of contents. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Bible |
| ETANA - Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives | ETANA is a portal for Ancient Near eastern studies. Its major projects include Abzu (database of open access primary and secondary sources), Core texts (digitized hieroglyphic, cuneiform, and alphabetic texts,) and eTACT (repository of translated Akkadian texts) | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Manuscripts, Photographs |
| Jastrow Dictionary | The Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies hosts a browsable (but not searchable) Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Bible, Reference, Talmud, Midrash |
| Leningrad Codex | From the electronic version of the Leningrad Codex maintained by the J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Bible, Tanakh, Tanach |
| Maagar Sifrut ha-Kodesh | This resource includes full text of Bible, Tosefta, Talmud Bavli, Mishnah Torah, etc. and a Hebrew/English dictionary. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Bible, Mishnah, Talmud, Reference |
| Mechon-mamre | This is an online translation of the Bible, including vocalized/unvocalized text etc, commentaries and other resources. Texts are available in English, Hebrew, and parallel Hebrew/English. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Bible, Tanakh, Tanach |
| Mikraot Gedolot Haketer | This website provides the searchable hebrew text of Mikraot Gedolot, including the Aramaic translation, and commentaries. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Bible, Tanakh, Tanach, Midrash |
| Morfix | This website provids Hebrew/english online dictionary, with other language learning resources such as games and quizzes. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Bible, Reference, Dictionary |
| New English Translation of the Septuagint | This resource is a new English Translation of The Septuagint, with a list of emendations and corrections from the most recent version of the publication. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Bible, Tanakh, Tanach |
| Sefaria | Sefaria is repository of Liturgical, Talmudic, and Biblical texts in English, Hebrew and sometimes Aramaic, also includes Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Edot Ha-Mizrah siddurim, Chabad, etc and allows for user-creation of source sheets for teaching and discussion. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Bible, Liturgy, Reference, Dictionary, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud, Mishnah |
| Zohar Pritzker edition | This website contains the Aramaic text of the first five volumes of this edition of the Zohar. The Versions include regular text, underlined text showing emendations, and “user-friendly,” which includes page numbers that correspond to this printed edition, Italics for the Biblical verses, and citations for the verses with verse and chapter number. | Bible/Early Resources, Early Sources, Primary Sources, Reference, Rabbinic Literature |
| Halacha Brura | Access this resource through the "ezrei limud" tab: study aids for daf yomi, commentaries on Rambam and agadah, parashat hashavu'a, and laws of Hanukah and Pesah | Talmud/Rabbinic Resources, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud, Holidays, Education, Halacha |
| Leviticus Rabbah | This is a synoptic edition of Leviticus Rabbah | Talmud/Rabbinic Resources, Rabbinic Literature, Bible, Tanakh, Tanach, Midrash |
| Midrash Project at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies | Access critical versions of Midrashim, including Kohelet Rabbah, Esther Rabbah, Shir ha-Shirim and others, by clicking on each title in the section headed "Synoptic Editions of Midrashim." | Talmud/Rabbinic Resources, Rabbinic Literature, Midrash, Primary Sources, Reference |
| Midrashic Units in the Mishnah | This resource is a database that explains every biblical reference/interpretation in the Mishnah, in order of occurrence, except for the tractate Avot. | Talmud/Rabbinic Resources, Rabbinic Literature, Mishnah, Reference |
| Parallelism in the Palestinian Talmud | This resource contains lists of places and sources where the Jerusalem Talmud parallels the text or discussions in the Babylonian Talmud and other Rabbininc literature. | Talmud/Rabbinic Resources, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud, Rabbinic Literature, Reference, Israel |
| Rabbinic Resources | This site is a collection of links to Rabbinic primary texts, journals, dictionaries, and other study tools. | Talmud/Rabbinic Resources, Rabbinic Literature, Primary sources, Rabbinic Literature, Bible, Midrash, Talmud, Mishnah |
| Soncino Edition of the Talmud in English | This is an English edition/translation of the Soncino Talmud, formatted into two columns by Reuven Brauner. | Talmud/Rabbinic Resources, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud, Primary Sources |
| Cantors Assembly | The Cantors Assemply provides full text of Journal of Synagogue Music Archive and audio recordings or Torah reading. Essays address Jewish law related to music. | Music Resources/Sound Resources, Music, Cantor, Liturgy, Archive |
| Chazzanut Online | This resource offers biographies of musicians and links to online music resources, including sheet music archives | Music Resources/Sound Resources, Music, Audio Recording, Liturgy, Archive, Manuscripts, Primary Source |
| Jewish Music Research Center | The Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) is an academic institution dedicated to the documentation, research, and publication of scholarly materials about music conceived, performed, and consumed within Jewish social frameworks in the past and present. | Music Resources/Sound Resources, Music, Archive, Articles, Reference |
| Jewish Music Web Center | The purpose of the Jewish Music WebCenter is to support and encourage scholarship and general enjoyment of Jewish music. This website provides an informational platform for activities by individuals and groups as well as academic and archival resources. | Music Resources/Sound Resources, Music, Cantor, Archive, Reference |
| Judaic Collection Recorded Sound Archives of FAU | Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of Jewish music, the RSA has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings | Music Resources/Sound Resources, Music, Cantor, Audio Recording, Archive |
| Milken Archive | Founded in 1990, this archive has 600 works, oral histories, 50,000 photographs, historical documents, recordings of live footage, program notes and other resources to document the history of Jewish music in America. | Music Resources/Sound Resources, Music, Cantor, Audio Recording, Video, Articles |
| National sound archive | The Music Center catalog includes records for books, characters, personal archives and archives of institutions and communities. Catalog Music Center also includes the Sound Archives, the recordings of folk music, popular, artistic, Israeli, Jewish, and music from various communities in the country. | Music Resources/Sound Resources, Music, Audio Recording, Archive |
| Save The Music Foundation | One of the largest collections of recorded Jewish music online, searchable by composer, performer, language, collection, etc. 62 pages of videos of performances are available as well. | Music Resources/Sound Resources, Music, Audio Recording, Video |
| VirtualCantor | The purpose of this site is to promote the proliferation of Nusach and to make a Nusach readily accessible to those who have a desire to learn and a desire to deepen their Judaism. Includes music for various liturgical, holiday and lifecycle events. | Music Resources/Sound Resources, Music, Cantor, Audio Recording, Holidays |
| Yiddish American Sheet Music | This collection is made up of primarily Yiddish theater music, the Yiddish American Sheet Music Collection includes the Irene Heskes Collection (from the archives of the Hebrew Publishing Company). Includes printed sheet music as well as items in manuscript form. Selections prior to 1922 are presented online, while others, still remaining under copyright in the United States, will likely be added to the site as they enter the Public Domain. | Music Resources/Sound Resources, Music, Yiddish, Images, Manuscripts, Primary sources |
| Yiddish Sheet Music | This collection is part of the Brown University Library Center for Digital Initiatives, this collection contains digital images of approximately 700 pieces of pre-1923 Yiddish sheet music. While most of the collection is from Yiddish musical theater, it also contains cantorial works and folk music. | Music Resources/Sound Resources, Music, Yiddish, Images, Manuscripts, Primary sources |
| Yiddish Song of the week | This website featues a Yiddish song of the week with translations and transliterations of lyrics, by folklorist Itsik Gottesman | Music Resources/Sound Resources, Music, Judaica, Yiddish, Audio Recording |
| Visual Midrash | Visual Midrash is an online bilingual (Hebrew and English) collection of Bible art and commentary, sponsored by the TALI Education Fund in Israel. | Art Resources, Art, Judaica, Midrash, Art, Photographs, Judaica |
| Loeb Jewish Portrait Database | This resource is the world’s most extensive online gallery of portraits of American Jews in the Colonial and Antebellum Periods, with depictions of various famous Jewish personages. | Art Resources, Art, Judaica, History, Photographs, Genealogy |
| Pomegranate Guild | The mission of the Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework is to pass needlework traditions to other generations of women and men through the sharing of knowledge and techniques needed to create handcrafted items intended for both Jewish ritual and cultural use. | Art Resources, Art, Judaica, Holidays |
| Skirball Cultural Center | Its mission is to explore the connections between 4,000 years of Jewish heritage and the vitality of American democratic ideals. It seeks to welcome and inspire people of every ethnic and cultural identity in American life. | Art Resources, Art, Judaica, History, Photographs, Museum, Holidays |
| All About Yiddish Theatre | This website offers Hebrew encyclopedic articles on Jewish theater and general Jewish topics: works of art, people, and events. It also contains galleries of still images from Yiddish theater. | Art Resources, Art, Judaica, Yiddish, Education |
| American Guild of Judaic Art | The Guild's membership includes Jewish artists, galleries, museum curators, collectors, retailers of Judaica, writers, educators in the field of Jewish studies and art history, and others professionally involved in the field. The Guild can suggest educational workshops, lectures, seminars and outreach programs both for artists and for the general public. | Art Resources, Art, Judaica, Education, History |
| Bezalel Narkis Index of Jewish Art | Collection of Jewish art, including illuminated manuscripts and early printed books | Art Resources, Art, Judaica, Primary sources, Manuscripts |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | This collection includes photographs from 1910 to the present with a focus on WWII era. | Genealogy, Geneaology, History, Photographs, Primary sources, Holocaust |
| Jewishgen | One of the most well-known Jewish geneaology websites, it has searchable databases by town/country, surname, etc. It also has Hebrew/Gregorian date converter which is particularly helpful regarding birth/date dates. | Genealogy, Genealogy, History, Calendar, Photographs |
| Jewish Geneaology in Italy | This site includes a history of Jews in Italy, census lists, Jewish family heraldry, and name database. | Genealogy, Genealogy, History, Photographs, Primary sources, Holocaust |
| Jewish Records Indexing-Poland | This website is a index of Polish Jewish genealogy, with over 5 million records or births, deaths and marriages, which have survived the Holocaust and later periods of Polish history. | Genealogy, Genealogy, History, Photographs, Primary sources, Holocaust |
| Museum of the Jewish People | The Museum of the Jewish People includes geneaological information searchable by surname and place of origin. | Genealogy, Geneaology, History, Photographs, Primary sources |
| Polish Roots | PolishRoots covers all areas that were historically part of the Polish Commonwealth, from the 16th through the 18th centuries, throughout the years of partitions by Prussia, Russia, and Austria, through its rebirth in 1918, subsequent domination during World War II and post-War occupation, to its present freedom and struggle for independence through the latter 20th Century. | Genealogy, Geneaology, History, Photographs, Primary sources, Reference |
| Routes to Roots Foundation | This is a website for tracing Central and Eastern European/Ashkenazi ancestry and routes of migration, including access to archival documents, photographs and postcards. | Genealogy, Geneaology, History, Photographs, Archive, Articles |
| Sephardic Genealogy | This is Sephardic genealogy website by Jeffrey S. Malka, including a list of most popular Sephardic surnames, general history of Sephardi Jews, databases, and other resources. | Genealogy, Geneaology, History, Photographs |
| Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island | This site includes several online exhibits on immigration to the United States as well as a searchable database of ship (and some aircraft!) manifests. | Genealogy, Genealogy, Photographs, Primary sources |
| Kevarim | The goal of this project is twofold: to preserve the memory of departed Gedolei Yisrael, and to provide a place to turn to in time of need to those who may not have the opportunity to travel. | Genealogy, Genealogy, Photographs |
| American Jewish Archives | The AJA preserves, and makes available for research, materials on the history of Jews and Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere (primarily focusing on America) including data of a political, economic, social, cultural, and religious nature. | Jewish History Resources, Primary sources, History, Manuscripts, Photographs, Art, Archives |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives | The JDC Archives houses the organizational records of JDC, the overseas rescue, relief, and rehabilitation arm of the American Jewish community, the archives includes over 3 miles of text documents, 100,000 photographs, a research library of more than 6,000 books, 1,100 audio recordings including oral histories, and a collection of 2,500 videos | Jewish History Resources, Primary sources, History, Manuscripts, Photographs, Art, Archives |
| Global Directory of Jewish Museums | This directory of Jewish Museums is sortable by country, city, or museum name and includes the link to the museum. | Jewish History Resources, History, Reference, Statistics, Museum, Archives, Directory |
| Historic Synagogues Europe | This website is an interactive map of all existing European synagogues, whether currently used as such or not, including pictures, dates of construction, and what the current usage of the buiilding is and other searchable features. | Jewish History Resources, History, Reference, Statistics, Directory |
| Jewish Languages Research | This website is run by HUC Professor Sarah Bunin Benor, includes a database for research into history and usage of languages Jews have spoken and written throughout history. | Jewish History Resources, History, Yiddish, Video, Reference, Statistics |
| Jewish Museum | The Museum maintains a unique collection of nearly 30,000 works of fine art, Judaica, antiquities, folk art, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media which reflect the global Jewish experience over more than 4,000 years. | Jewish History Resources, History, Art, Photographs, Manuscripts, Museum |
| Jewish Virtual Library | This website is an online encyclopedia covering all aspects of Jewish history | Jewish History Resources, History, Reference, Photographs, Israel, Education, Statistics, Articles |
| Jewish Women’s Archive | The Jewish Women’s Archive is a national organization dedicated to collecting and promoting the extraordinary stories of Jewish women. | Jewish History Resources, History, Reference, Gender Studies, Photographs |
| Jewish Women’s Studies | This is a database for Jewish Women’s Studies by topic such as Holocaust, Medieval era, research institutes and archives, etc. | Jewish History Resources, History, Gender Studies, Bible, Rabbinic Literature, Education, Holocaust, Reference |
| JTA Archive | The Jewish Telegraph Agency archive website provides access to current articles, with the archive starting 1923. | Jewish History Resources, History, Newspapers, Articles |
| Library of Congress' From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish life in America | The exhibition features more than two hundred treasures of American Judaica from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions. | Jewish History Resources, History, Reference, Photographs |
| Ma’agarim- The Historical Dictionary Project | This historical dictionary of Hebrew aims to document when and where certain words and phrases entered the Hebrew language, what the original form was, and if the word/phrase is still in use, among other historical questions. | Jewish History Resources, History, Reference, Dictionary |
| Medieval Jewish History Resource directory | This website is list of Jewish history resources by time period, subject, geographic location etc. | Jewish History Resources, History, Education, Genealogy, Reference, Archives |
| NYPL Digital Collections | The New York Public Library Digital Collections contains 890,000 items from the NYPL collections, including a lot of Jewish history pertaining to the history of New York and other Jewish communities. Includes photographs, manuscripts and other documents. | Jewish History Resources, History, Photographs, Manuscripts |
| Synagogues 360° | Synagogues360 offers a unique visual and historical experience of synagogues across North America, Europe and Asia from small, remote villages to cosmopolitan cities. | Jewish History Resources, History, Photographs, Reference, Statistics, Directory |
| Union List of Digitized Jewish Historic Newspapers, Periodicals and e-Journals | This resource provides a list of and links for digitized historical Jewish newspapers and periodicals from various locales and languages. | Jewish History Resources, History, Reference, Directory |
| Lookstein Center for Jewish Education | This educational resource, The Lookstein Center, is dedicated to providing critical supports for Jewish educators as they learn, teach, and lead in the twenty-first century to ensure an engaged and educated Jewish community | Jewish Education Resources, Education, Holidays, Ritual, Reference |
| Melton Center for Jewish Education | The Melton Centre at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is a vibrant academic community, characterized by its intellectual effervescence, its pluralistic approach and its commitment to the sustainability of Jewish culture and heritage through diverse forms of education. | Jewish Education Resources, Education, Reference |
| NewCAJE | This site includes The Jewish Educator Journal archive and robust resources for teaching: lesson plans, curricula, resources for holidays, discussion guides; discussion board | Jewish Education Resources, Education |
| Opensiddur | Open Siddur is an open-source community project for folk sharing prayers and crafting their own prayerbooks and is searchable by occassion or keyword. | Jewish Education Resources, Siddur, Liturgy, Ritual, Prayerbooks |
| Ritualwell | Run by Reconstructing Judaism, this website has access to thousands of Jewish rituals, videos, and other resources organized by lifecycle event, occasion/purpose. | Jewish Education Resources, Ritual, Liturgy, Holidays, Prayerbooks, Siddur |
| Sources for the history of Jewish Education | Blog posts on history, politics, education in Jewish history in Israel and elsewhere | Jewish Education Resources, Education, History, Israel, Articles |
| Yiddish Studies Journal/Inge Veb | The Yiddish Studies Journal is for the study of all things Yiddish—the focal point for discussions of Yiddish literature, language, and culture, and the home for the next generation of Yiddish scholarship. | Jewish Education Resources, Education, Yiddish, Articles, Archive, Primary sources |
| Berman Jewish Databank | This site provides summaries of various Jewish population surveys by region, topic, and more. Datasets are not available. | Jewish community affairs, Jewish Affairs, Statistics |
| Berman Jewish Policy Archive | This site provices online access to archive's collections including full text of journals (Journal of Jewish Communal Service, American Jewish Year Book, Sh'ma, Journal of Jewish Education). | Jewish community affairs, Jewish Affairs, Statistics, History, Education, Archives |
| Congregation Beth Simchat Torah | World's largest LGBTQ synagogue located in NY | Jewish community affairs, Jewish Affairs, LGBTQ, Gender Studies |
| Institute on Judaism and Sexual Orientation | The Institute for Judaism, Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) is the first and only institute of its kind in the Jewish world. The Institute was founded in 2000 to educate HUC-JIR students on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues to help them challenge and eliminate homophobia and heterosexism; and to learn tools to be able to transform the communities they encounter into ones that are inclusive and welcoming of LGBT Jews. | Jewish community affairs, Jewish Affairs, LGBTQ, Gender Studies, Social Justice |
| Jewish Community Resource Council | JCRC provides resources on Jewish values and social justice, including links to full-text documents, educational materials, and action opportunities. | Jewish community affairs, Jewish Affairs, Education, Social Justice, Education |
| Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance | JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, expands the spiritual, ritual, intellectual and political opportunities for women within the framework of halakha (Jewish law), by advocating meaningful participation and equality. | Jewish community affairs, Jewish Affairs, Gender Studies, Social Justice |
| Jewish Queer Youth | JQY (Jewish Queer Youth) is a nonprofit organization supporting and empowering LGBTQ youth in the Jewish community. JQY fights to ensure the emotional and physical health and safety of these individuals, with a special focus on teens and young adults from Orthodox, Chasidic, and Sephardic communities. | Jewish community affairs, Jewish Affairs, LGBTQ, Gender Studies, Social Justice |
| Keshet | Keshet is an LGBT Jewish visibility organization that advocates for equality of LGBT Jews in communal life and institutions. | Jewish community affairs, Jewish Affairs, LGBTQ, Gender Studies, Social Justice |
| Lilith Magazine | Independent, Jewish & frankly feminist since 1976, Lilith’s mission is to be the feminist change-agent in and for the Jewish community | Jewish community affairs, Jewish Affairs, Education, Social Justice, Gender Studies, Magazine, Archives, Articles |
| Mazon.org | Mazon is a Jewish organization dedicated to using the resources of Jewish tradition and social action to combat hunger and food insecurity in various communities. | Jewish community affairs, Jewish Affairs, Social Justice, Archives, Articles |
| World Congress of GLBT Jews | The vision of Wold Congress of GLBT Jews is a world where Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and other Jews of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities (LGBTQIA+) worldwide can enjoy free and fulfilling lives. | Jewish community affairs, Jewish Affairs, LGBTQ, Gender Studies, Social Justice |
| Ghetto Fighters' House Museum Archive | Full text and scans, art, photos, audio recordings related to Holocaust are available here. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, Primary sources, Audio recordings, Art, Photographs, Archives |
| Holocaust and Humanity Education | The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education educates about the Holocaust, remembers its victims and acts on its lessons. Through innovative programs and partnerships, CHHE challenges injustice, inhumanity and prejudice, and fosters understanding, inclusion and engaged citizenship. Resources include traveling and permanent exhibits, teacher trainings, and innovative programs. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, History, Education, Museum |
| Holocaust Timeline | The History Place hosts a timeline of the Holocaust from 1933 when Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany until the 1961 Eichman trial. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, History |
| Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation | The mission of JPEF is to develop and distribute effective educational materials about the Jewish partisans and their life lessons, bringing the celebration of heroic resistance against tyranny into educational and cultural organizations. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, History, Primary sources, Audio recordings, Video, Education |
| Kindertransport | This website provides access to the history, photographs and stories of those who were on the Kindertransport evacuation trains for children fleeing Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia to the UK after Kristallnacht. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, History, Genealogy, Photographs, Video, Education |
| Nizkor | Nizkor is a Canadian organization and Holocaust memorial through Bnai Brith Canada, which also provides guides to further research. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, History, Photographs, Reference |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center | The Simon Wiesenthal Center is a global human rights organization researching the Holocaust and hate in a historic and contemporary context. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, History, Video, Articles |
| Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust | An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature This site includes many resources for teachers and activities for students in various grade levels. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, History, Primary sources, Audio recordings, Video, Education |
| USC Shoah Foundation | The Visual History Archive is an online portal from USC Shoah Foundation that allows users to search through and view 53,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides that have been catalogued and indexed at the Institute. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, Primary sources, Audio recordings, Video, Photographs, Articles |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is a living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. This website provides photographs, videos, survivor testimonies, and other exhibits related to the Holocaust as well as other genocides and ethnic cleansings. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, Primary sources, Audio recordings, Video, Photographs, Museum |
| Remember.org | Remember.org offers contributors (survivors, liberators, historians, family, students and teachers) a place to connect and share the best research resources and stories through art, photography, painting, audio/video, and remembrance. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, Primary sources, Audio recordings, Video, Photographs |
| World Memory Project | This project of United States Holocasut Memorial Musium includes millions of documents containing details about victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution during World War II. This is a free searchable database hosted by Ancestry.com. Volunteers may also participate by keying in records to add to the database. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, Primary sources, Audio recordings, Video, Genealogy |
| Yad Vashem | Yad Vashem in Israel is the world center for documentation, commemoration and memorial for the Holocaust. The website Includes access to archives, digital collections, survivor testimonies, etc. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, Primary sources, Audio recordings, Video, Photographs, Museum |
| Yizkor Books | Database of 1,033 Yizkor books that document the history, daily, life, etc of communities in Eastern Europe mainly, which were destroyed during the Holocaust and WWII. | Holocaust Education/Resources, Holocaust, Reference, History, Primary sources |
| Collection of Menasseh Ben Israel | Scanned images of books printed by the early Dutch publisher, Menasseh Ben Israel. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, Primary sources, Books |
| Daat | These Hebrew essays and addresses on a variety of Jewish topics are organized by organization, date, subject, and/or author. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Articles, Archive, History, Books |
| Digital Bodleaian | Digital Bodleian makes portions of the Bodleian's extraordinary library collections (Early Modern Manuscripts and Archives) open to a wide variety of users from around the world for learning, teaching and research. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, Primary sources, Manuscripts, History |
| Cambridge Digital Library | Collections of particular interest interest in this comprehensive digital library include Hebrew Manuscripts, Cairo Genizah, and Medieval and Early Modern Greek Manuscripts. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, Primary sources, Manuscripts, Newspapers |
| David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project Ketubbot Collection | The National Library of Israel has a vast and rich collection of ketubot that site allows for a wide, comprehensive and in depth look at the ketubah as a Jewish document, a Jewish creation and a vital historical source. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, Primary sources, Manuscripts, Ketubah, Judaica |
| Friedberg Genizah Project | This resource provides digitized Genizah manuscripts, early printed books, and other Judaica alongside transcriptions of the texts. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Genizah, Books |
| Ginzberg Legends of the Jews | In the early 1900s, Ginzberg collected midrash and aggadic stories about the Bible and Biblical characters and wove them together into one narrative. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Bible, Midrash |
| Hebrewbooks.org | Full text of Hebrew older monographs are available here, including many works used in HUC-JIR classes. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Rabbinic Literature, Primary Sources, Books |
| Ktiv | Ktiv is a digitized collection of Hebrew manuscripts on many subjects provided by the National Library of Israel, with the manuscripts coming from all places/time periods of Jewish history. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, Primary sources, Manuscripts |
| Modern Hebrew Literature - a Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon | This is a lexicon of biographical and bibliographical data about modern Hebrew literature, arranged by alphabetically by author. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Reference, Books, Archives |
| Mahzor Catalonia | This is a digitized Mahzor for Rosh Ha-Shana and Yom Kippur according to the Catalonian Rite | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, Primary sources, Manuscripts, Holidays |
| Piyut Archive | The Piyut Database provides information about the history, manuscripts, transmission, and liturgical usages of various Piyutim through Jewish history. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, Primary sources, Manuscripts, Articles, Liturgy |
| Project Ben Yehuda | Project Ben-Yehuda aims to make accessible the classics of Hebrew literature (poetry and prose, but also essays, letters, memoirs, and reference works) to the reader of Hebrew. For that purpose, the literary works are converted to a format that is readable and searchable on the Internet. The project is intended to be of use for both amateurs and scholars of literature. It is inspired by the parallel English project started by the late Michael S. Hart called Project Gutenberg. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, History |
| University of Haifa Library DMC | This website provids access to the digital collections of the University Haifa, including rare manuscripts, Genizah fragments, videos, Israeli geography, history, Kabbalah, and other subjects. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, Primary sources, Manuscripts, Genizah, Israel |
| University of Pennsylvania's Judaic Special Collections | This is a database of Judaic/Hebrew manuscripts and other rare material from the University of Pennsylvania. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, Primary sources, Manuscripts, Genizah |
| Yiddish Book Center | The Yiddish Book Center provides access to the full text of digital versions of 11,000 Yiddish books, oral histories, audio files, and other Yiddish cultural information. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, Yiddish, Reference, Books, Education |
| Jiddische Drucke | This database provided by the University of Frankfurt, contains nearly 800 very valuable Yiddish books printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central and East Europe. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, Yiddish, Reference, Books |
| YIVO Vilna collection | The YIVO Vilna Collections project is run by YIVO and others, to reconnect the YIVO libraries in New York City and Vilna, and to reconstruct the collection of the august private Strashun Library of Vilna, which was one of the largest Jewish libraries of prewar Europe. | Jewish Books/Judaica/Manuscripts, Art, Yiddish, Reference, Articles, Archives |
| Bank of Israel | This site provides full text of research papers, policy reports, and other financial resources (Israeli and global). | Israel/Zionism, Israel, Statistics, Articles |
| Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University | The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (also known by its acronym, the BESA Center) is an independent, non-partisan think tank conducting policy-relevant research on Middle Eastern and global strategic affairs, particularly as they relate to the national security and foreign policy of Israel and regional peace and stability. | Israel/Zionism, Israel, Statistics, Articles, Jewish Affairs |
| BItter Lemons | The Bitter Lemons publications reflect a joint Palestinian-Israeli effort to promote a civilized exchange of views about the Israel-Arab conflict and additional Middle East issues among a broad spectrum of participants. | Israel/Zionism, Israel, History, Zionism |
| Central Zionist Archives | Primary sources on Zionism in various media, primarily text and photographs are available here. The site includes less common such as newspaper articles, maps, posters. Also includes secondary descriptions of organizations and individuals. | Israel/Zionism, Israel, Zionism, Articles, Archives |
| Early Hebrew Newspapers | The Historical Jewish Press website brings the data and Digital Humanities revolution to this field and offers the possibility to perform a full search of all the published text of a given newspaper throughout all the years of its publication | Israel/Zionism, Israel, History, Newspapers, Articles, Magazine |
| Encyclopedia of the Pioneers and Builders of Israel | This is a database of primary sources related to individuals involved in building the modern state of Israel. It is searchable by English or Hebrew name (on screen keyboard available). Images and transcriptions of text are available. | Israel/Zionism, Israel, History, Primary sources |
| Holy Land Maps | Maps of Israel From the Eran Laor Cartographic Collection | Israel/Zionism, Israel, History |
| Israel Museum | These are images for works from the Israel Museum's collection. It is searchable by artist name and browsable. | Israel/Zionism, Israel, Art, Primary sources, Manuscripts, Museum |
| Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs | The Ministry of Foreign Affairs guides the policy between Israel and another countries and looks out for Israelis in the diaspora. The site includes information for visitors to Israel. | Israel/Zionism, Israel, Articles |
| Israel 21c | This site focuses on Israel's contributions in the areas of health, technology, democracy, and culture. | Israel/Zionism, Israel, Articles |
| Israel National Photo Gallery | This collection is of the state of Israel, holds within it photographs of principal events and people in the life of the country as they have been documented by Government Press Office photographers over the years starting with the earliest days of the state and up until the present day. It also presents photographs by additional photographers, some from before the establishment of the state, who have donated their collections for the benefit of the citizens of Israel. | Israel/Zionism, Israel, Photographs |
| Yad Tabenkin | Yad Tabenkin is an Israeli research institute for the history and documentation/publication of materials related to the history of Kibbutz movement and history of individual Kibbutzim | Israel/Zionism, Israel, Articles, Photographs |
| Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi | Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi is an Israeli research institute for the study of documents and other material related to the history and life of Jews who lived under Islamic rule in various places and countries in the Middle East and elsewhere. | Israel/Zionism, Israel, Education |
| Weizmann Center for Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University | The Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel, at the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, was established in 1962 as the first research institute at Tel Aviv University. | Israel/Zionism, Israel, History, Education |
| CCAR | The professional organization for Reform rabbis, this site also has opportunities for lifelong learning for anyone. | Reform and Progressive Judaism, Reform Judaism, History |
| HUC | The seminary of the Reform Jewish movement. Find information about the programs, the campuses, the faculty, and much more. | Reform and Progressive Judaism, Reform Judaism, Education, History |
| Israeli Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism | The Israel Movement for Reform & Progressive Judaism (IMPJ) is the umbrella organization of all the Reform communities and institutions in Israel. We seek to integrate Jewish tradition with the realities of modern life, and believe in the right of each individual to shape their own Jewish way of life through a process of study and reflection. The Reform movement emphasizes the commandments concerning relations between humans, religious tolerance, and full equality between women and men in the synagogue and in all walks of life. | Reform and Progressive Judaism, Reform Judaism, Education, History |
| Reform Judaism | This site has been built and designed keeping in mind the needs of Reform Jews, unaffiliated Jews and those wishing to learn more about Reform Judaism. The content has been developed by a wide variety of educators, rabbis, cantors and laypersons who are active participants in Reform Jewish life. | Reform and Progressive Judaism, Reform Judiasm, History, Education |
| Reform Responsa | The CCAR applies Jewish scholarship and transition to contemporary issues through the creation of Reform Responsa, based on the historic Jewish system of providing answers to questions about Judaism and Jewish living. Questions are submitted to the Responsa committee, and responses are provided. | Reform and Progressive Judaism, Reform Judaism, Responsa, Education |
| Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism | The RAC educates and mobilizes the Reform Jewish community on legislative and social concerns, advocating on more than 70 different issues, including economic justice, civil rights, religious liberty, Israel and more. | Reform and Progressive Judaism, Reform Judaism, Education, Social Justice |
| Union for Progressive Judaism | The UPJ is the roof body that resources 27 congregations, schools, youth groups and communal organisations across Australia, New Zealand and Asia, serving about one fifth of the region’s affiliated Jewish community. | Reform and Progressive Judaism, Reform Judaism, History, Education |
| Union for Reform Judaism | The URJ (formerly the Union of American Hebrew Congregations) builds community at every level, collaborating and connecting with congregations, organizations, and individuals across North America to advance contemporary and inclusive Jewish life. | Reform and Progressive Judaism, Reform Judaism, History, Education |
| Union Progressiver Juden | Progessive Judaism in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. | Reform and Progressive Judaism, Reform Judaism, History, Education |
| World Union for Progressive Judaism | The World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ), established in London in 1926, is the international umbrella organization of the Reform, Liberal, Progressive and Reconstructionist movements, serving 1,200 congregations with 1.8 million members in more than 50 countries. | Reform and Progressive Judaism, Reform Judaism, History, Education |
| APA Style help | This site includes tutorials on the American Psychological Association styles and quick answers to common citing and formatting questions. | Writing Tools, Education, Reference |
| Citation Machine | Type an ISBN into this site and it will create the citation in any of ALA, MLA, Chicago, or Torabian formats. If it can't find your ISBN, you can type the information about the book into a form, and the website will create a citation for you to cut and paste into your document. | Writing Tools, Education, Reference |
| Opencolleges | This resources provides citation guides for MLA, APA and other citation formats for use in academic papers and research. | Writing Tools, Education, Reference |
| SBL Style help | This resources provides citation guides for SBL formats used in academic papers and research. | Writing Tools, Education, Reference |
| Turabian (Chicago) Style help | This resources provides citation guides for Turabian/Chicago formats used in academic papers and research. | Writing Tools, Education, Reference |
| Zotero | Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. | Writing Tools, Education, Reference |
| Association of Religion Data Archives | The site provides resources for research and teaching, including demographic survey data and lesson plans. | Research and Education Resources, Education, Reference, Statistics |
| CORE | CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all. | Research and Education Resources, Education, Reference |
| Directory of Open Access Books | This resource provides an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, academic texts as ebooks. | Research and Education Resources, Education, Reference |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | This resource provides an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals | Research and Education Resources, Education, Reference |
| Get the Research | This portal provides access to peer-reviews research on various topics | Research and Education Resources, Education, Reference |
| Global ETD search | This portal provides access to dissertations and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format | Research and Education Resources, Education, Reference |
| Google Scholar | Many scholarly publications are available with free online access through Google Scholar. | Research and Education Resources, Education, Reference |
| HathiTrust Digital Library | This comprehensive resource provides digital images of material held around the world. | Research and Education Resources, Education, Reference, Photographs |
| Open Access Digital Theological Library | This is a resource for journal articles, ebooks and other resources related to theological studies and other related areas. | Research and Education Resources, Education, Reference |
| Opencolleges | This resources provides citation guides for MLA, APA and other citation formats for use in academic papers and research. | Research and Education Resources, Education, Reference |
| Pofatu | This is a resource for geochemical sourcing of archeological materials, which allows for reconstructiong trade patterns and movements in historical contexts. | Research and Education Resources, Education, Reference, Bible |