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| Name | Nature of Resources |
|---|---|
| Collection of Menasseh Ben Israel | Scanned images of books printed by the early Dutch publisher, Menasseh Ben Israel. |
| Daat | These Hebrew essays and addresses on a variety of Jewish topics are organized by organization, date, subject, and/or author. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Friedberg Genizah Project | This resource provides digitized Genizah manuscripts, early printed books, and other Judaica alongside transcriptions of the texts. |
| 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. |
| Hebrewbooks.org | Full text of Hebrew older monographs are available here, including many works used in HUC-JIR classes. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Mahzor Catalonia | This is a digitized Mahzor for Rosh Ha-Shana and Yom Kippur according to the Catalonian Rite |
| Piyut Archive | The Piyut Database provides information about the history, manuscripts, transmission, and liturgical usages of various Piyutim through Jewish history. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| University of Pennsylvania's Judaic Special Collections | This is a database of Judaic/Hebrew manuscripts and other rare material from the University of Pennsylvania. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |