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Sacred-Texts
"This site is a freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language."

  • Texts of Judaism
    Sections include: Tanakh ; Talmud ; Haggada ; Kabbalah ; Midrash ; Ancient/Medieval ; Modern ; Links.

American Media - Speaking of Faith

  • Einstein and the Mind of God
    Part one of this series takes Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, and the mind of God...Part two of this series delves into Einstein's Jewish identity, his passionate engagement around issues of war and race, and modern extensions of his ethical and scientific perspectives."
    Listen to the March 2007 radio broadcast or read the transcripts.
    Sections include: In His Voice: Archival Audio ; In His Words: Selected Writings.

Ancient Narrative
Electronic Journal
"...Greek, Roman, Jewish novelistic traditions, including novels proper, the "fringe", as well as the fragments; narrative texts of the Byzantine age, early Christian narrative texts - and the reception of these works in modern literature, film and music."

Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

  • Hate on Display
    A Visual Database of Extremist Symbols, Logos and Tattoos

[Aramaic] The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL)
"This major scholarly reference work will cover all dialects and periods of ancient Aramaic, one of the principal languages of antiquity, with a literature of central importance for history and civilization, and especially for the Jewish and Christian religions."
Edited by Prof. Stephen A. Kaufamn, Hebrew Union College and Prof. Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Catholic University of America.

Arutz-7 Israel National Radio
 "...live 24-hour broadcast from Israel and other audio and text items of interest."

The British Library

  • Collect Britain
    "Putting History in place: over 90,000 images and sounds from the UK and beyond."
    • Expressions of Faith
      "The British Library holds a wealth of sacred manuscripts from around the world ñ many of them rare, ancient and beautiful....We invited a group of well-known people from different faiths and walks of life to choose their favourites."
      Sections include: Buddhism ; Christianity ; Hinduism ; Islam ; Jainism ; Judaism ; Sikkhism.

Canadian Jewish News - (dead link)
Internet Edition - A Selection of Stories from our Pages

Center for Jewish History (New York, NY)

  • Online Catalogs and Archives
    "...three of the major catalogues at the Center: the archival, library, and periodical collections of the Leo Baeck Institute, the Library Catalogue of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, as well as the master catalog of the American Sephardi Federation. In the near future, additional databases will be available."

Countering Anti-Semitism and Hate in Canada Today
 Legal/Legislative Remedies and Current Realities Racism, Anti-Semitism and Hate in Canada
The Nizkor Project

The Daniel Elazar On-Line Library
"...offer full-text versions of many of his writings, as a lasting memorial to the ideas he pioneered."
From the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Dead Sea Scrolls
Includes online manuscripts, timetable of discovery and debate, and links to other online resources.

Dead Sea Scrolls
An exhibit at the Library of Congress. The online exhibit includes images of 12 scroll fragments and 29 other objects loaned by the Israel Antiquities Authority. The exhibit also includes test introductions to the Qumran library and community and the 'World of the Scrolls'

[Dead Sea Scrolls] Australian Broadcasting Corporation

  • The Sacred Site - Gateway to Religion Online
    Sections include: This Week ; Features ; Resources ; Events Diary.
    • The Dead Sea Scrolls
      The Fragments
      "...seminar on the Scrolls, is hosted by ABC Radio National's Rachael Kohn with leading Scrolls scholars, Geza Vermes, Lawrence Schiffman and Emanuel Tov...The seminar explores six ancient texts on exhibition at the art gallery. These include biblical, apocryphal, sectarian, and legal writings. Click on the images below and hear the stories unfold from the tiniest fragments."

[Dead Sea Scrolls] University of Chicago - The Oriental Institute

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Hebrew MSS Project
    Sections include: Introduction ; Articles ; Annual Reports.
    • The De Rossi Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts at the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma and Its Importance for Jewish History - (dead link) (2002)

A Garment Worker's Legacy : The Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry
An Online Catalogue & Exhibit
"...is considered to be one of the finest private collections of its kind in the world. ."The first section of this web site, the Catalogue, enables the user to search and access the catalogue entries by electronic means. It also includes the scholarly apparatus found in the published catalogue, such as its Introduction, Indices and Table of Name Equivalents. The second section, the virtual Exhibit, consists of the actual exhibit, augmented in content, and strengthened with hyperlinks and enlargement capacities. Photographs and audio-visual material of the 1998 exhibition have been included."
- McGill University [Canada] Digital Collection Program

Guardian Unlimited Special Report: Israel and the Middle East - (dead link)
"This special report contains the latest on a region that has been particularly affected by the fallout from the terrorist attacks in the US"
Sections include: Latest News ; Interactive Guides ; Audio Reports ; Arafat and Hamas ; Palestinian Attacks ; Israeli Attacks ; Sharon Government ; Diplomacy ; Comment and Analysis ; What the Papers Say ; The Arab World ; Fallout from US Terror Attacks ; Chronology ; Maps ; Weblog ; The Mitchell Report

  • Guardian Archive
    • Jewish state is born - (dead link)
      "May 15 1948: The Jews yesterday proclaimed in Tel Aviv the new State of Israel."
    • Israel: the new generation - (dead link)
      "November 19 1948, Arthur Koestler: Each war and revolution produces its lost generation."

Internet Guide to Chabad Literature
Edited by Yechezkal-Shimon Gutfreund

Hebrew Books and Manuscripts in the Leiden University Library
A.G.P. Janson

Hebrew Songs
This site is an index of song lyrics which have been transliterated and translated from the Hebrew for the enjoyment of our readers worldwide."
Aura Levin Lipski, Publisher.

The Henkind Talmud Text Databank

Into His Own: Perspectives on the World of Jesus
With New Translations from Primary Texts
"...is designed as a tool for the historical study of Christian scriptures. Since the works in the New Testament were composed in implicit & often explicit dialog with first century champions of Jewish tradition, the bulk of the passages included here have been excerpted from works written by Jewish authors, especially those composed after the Hebrew scriptures that can be found in any Christian "Old Testament." But there are also selections from non-Jewish sources that help bring the writings of Christian authors into a clearer cultural perspective."
Sections include: Texts ; Background ; Reviews.
By Mahlon H. Smith, Dept. of Religion, Rutgers University

inventARISIERT
The Looting of furniture from Jewish households
"The exhibit in the "Imperial Court Depot of Movables" deals with the "aryanisation" of eight Jewish households whose confiscated furnishings were stored in the state "Depot of Movables". In mounting this exhibition, the institution is focusing on two issues: its involvement in the national socialists' racist policy of expropriation some 60 years ago, and how it dealt with this confiscated property in the decades following 1945."
Institut f¸r Interdisziplin‰re Forschung und Fortbildung der Universit‰ten Klagenfurt, Wien, Graz und Innsbruck

Israel Social Sciences Data Center
"...established by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with a mission to collect, preserve and distribute data of interest to the academic community...The ISDC now houses approximately 1200 datasets including national sample survey data, local studies, census micro-data, government records in selected fields as well as macro-economic series...Sources of data include the Central Bureau of Statistics, central and local government agencies, research institutes as well as independent researchers from the affiliated academic institutes."

Jewish Museum of New York

  • Online Exhibitions
    • Entertaining America: Jews, Media, and Broadcasting
      "Over the past century, the various connections between American Jews and the nation's entertainment media have generated a discussion that has been extensive, passionate, and, at times, contentious."
    • Making Connections in Art and Jewish Culture
      "Explore the collection interactively. This online exhibition includes sixty works, from ancient artifacts to contemporary art and television clips, and traces their interconnections."

Jewish National and University Library, Hebrew University

  • The Library Catalogue
  • The National Sound Archives
    The Shapell Family Digitization Project
    A collection of sounds and music from a variety of Jewish holidays, communities and languages.
    • Hanukkah
      From the Collections of The National Sound Archives
  • Ketubbot Database
     "The whole collection of the Jewish National and University Library 1200 Ketubbot with full bibliographic details."
    "The Collection of Ketubbot (marriage contracts) in the Jewish National and University Library numbers 1212 items. It includes original ketubbot from Jewish communities around the world, handwritten as well as printed (among them blank forms)...the Collection includes ketubbot from many Jewish communities. Sometimes a ketubbah provides the only sure evidence for the existence of a Jewish community. And, inasmuch as the ketubbah is a legal document in every regard, financial agreements included, it also offers historical evidence of the Jewsí socio-economic status in various times and places.
  • RAMBI - Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
    "...is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, a world center for research on the Jewish people and Eretz Israel."

Jewish Theological Seminary - Library - (dead link) (New York)
"The Library's collection of Hebrew manuscripts is one of the largest collections in the world. There are more than 11,000 Codices as well as 30,000 Geniza fragments...The scope of the collection of 20,000 early printed books includes practically the entire output of various Hebrew presses in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries...The Library houses the largest collection of Hebrew incunabula, books printed before 1501, in the world."

Jewish Women's Archive
"Jewish women have always been an integral part of the history and continuity of their communities. Their stories, however, are virtually unknown. The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit the rich legacy of Jewish women and their contributions to our families and communities, to our people and our world."
Sections include: Exhibits ; Virtual Archive ; Resources.

  • Women Who Dared
    "Online exhibit which celebrates ordinary women who have made extraordinary commitments to a range of contemporary social movements."
    Sections include: Activism ; Gender ; Jewish.

JewishEncyclopedia.com (etext)
"This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations...This online version contains the unedited contents of the original encyclopedia. Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish History (e.g., the creation of Israel, the Holocaust, etc.). However, it does contain an incredible amount of information that is remarkably relevant today."

Judaica Americana
Ephemeral Pamphlets from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
"...includes a unique collection of 100 pamphlets published in the United States between 1725 and 1900. The pamphlets include sermons given by rabbis at various occasions, lectures on Jewish/Christian relations, educational pamphlets, historical articles and biographies of renowned Jews of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There are also political and civic documents relating to the Jews and the government of the United States. Judaica Americana is a primary source for the study of American Jewish life before the mass migrations of the early twentieth century."

Lost Art Internet Database
"...a project of both, the Federal Government of Germany and its Federal States ("L‰nder"). It registers cultural goods which were transported or stolen because of persecution, especially of Jewish citizens, as a result of World War II or as a result of National Socialism...The project is realized in co-operation of the Coordination Office and the Institute for Technical and Business Information Systems of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg."

MALMAD - Israel Center for Digital Information Services - (dead link) "Its purpose is to serve as a joint framework (consortium) for the acquisition, licensing and operation of information services to all the Israeli universities."

My Hebrew Dictionary

National Museum of American Jewish History

Nazi and East German Propaganda - Anti-Semitism
"Propaganda was central to Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people understand the two great totalitarian systems of the 20th Century by giving them access to the primary material."
Maintained by Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College

New York University Libraries - Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

  • Labor & The Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee And The Anti-Nazi Struggle
    "This exhibit [from 1997] presents a portfolio of a hundred photographs and documents from the JLC Collection. The text has been adapted from an article by JLC archivist Gail Malmgreen, originally published in Labor's Heritage (October 1991). The exhibit's seven pictorial sections take the viewer on a chronological journey, from the origins of the JLC, through its anti-Nazi activity of the 1930s, to early rescue efforts and wartime assistance to the anti-Nazi Underground, and then examines three aspects of postwar aid and reconstruction. A final section offers a bibliography of resources for further study."

PBS - Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
An online companion to the weekly television news program.

  • African-American Jews
    Watch or read the transcript of the January 26, 2007 episode. Includes related reading and links.
  • Biblical Archaeology
    Includes Video and transcript of the February 6, 2004 episode and related links and reading.

Positive Holocaust Education
Jewish Professional Institute
Site includes The Second World War and Jewish Education in America: The Fall and Rise of Orthodox by Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin. A complete online version of his original Columbia University Masters Thesis.

Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database
"The Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database is a cooperative research project involving a number of European centres with coordination provided by Leiden."

Tanach Study Center
"...is designed to provide the student with a structured learning program for self-study of Tanach." Includes: Ongoing Shiurim ; Archives ; Student Resource Material.

University of Chicago - The Oriental Institute

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Hebrew MSS Project
    Sections include: Introduction ; Articles ; Annual Reports.
    • The De Rossi Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts at the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma and Its Importance for Jewish History - (dead link) (2002)

University of Sussex - Centre for German-Jewish Studies

  • Holocaust Education Resources
    "This site is aimed at teachers and students of the Holocaust. Increasing numbers of people are learning about the Holocaust in schools and universities. This is a unique site because it is based on material from survivors and refugees from the Holocaust, held in the archives of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. The archives are broad-based: personal and family papers of German-Jewish refugees from the Nazis in the 1930s; and of the art works and personal papers of Arnold Daghani, a survivor of the Holocaust..."

Virtual Beit Midrash (VBM)
"...providing yeshiva style lessons in Torah and Judaism to students of all ages outside the Yeshiva walls. Using internet and email, 'The Virtual Beit Midrash' is a true window into the Beit Midrash. Courses are sent out weekly to subscribers, who are able to communicate with course instructors or coordinators."
Yeshivat Har Etzion

Web Torah Library
Includes Snunit Kitvei Hakodesh, Tanach from Shamash, Divrei Torah from Shamash along with other texts. Most are in Hebrew

Wolf Lewkowicz Collection
English translations of the Yiddish Letters
Maintained by Marc Zissman

Yiddish Anarchist Bibliography
From The Kate Sharpley Library

Zachor - Faith During the Holocaust
"This site focuses on Jewish faith during the Holocaust...The Zachor website contains various materials, including archival documents (some of which are being made public for the first time), research studies, abstracts of books, and explanations of concepts."


Journals and Magazines

BAJS Bulletin
The British Association for Jewish Studies Bulletin

Haaretz Daily Newspaper
English Internet Edition

The Jerusalem Post

Jewish Review
Published by the Jewish Federation of Portland, Oregon

Jewish Woman Magazine
From Jewish Women International

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures

Journal of Kabbalah Studies - Journal des Etudes de la Cabale
"...dedicated to Research in the field of Kabbalah, whether ancient and contemporary. It's content includes articles, reviews, various bibliographical documents, so as archives with previously published papers and students works (dissertations). One can find also announcements of Colloquia, Seminars, Lectures and news concerning living research."

Reform Judaism Magazine
Published by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
"...is an electronic journal dedicated to the study of the Jewish and Christian biblical texts. Articles on any aspect of the textual criticism of the Jewish and Christian scriptures (including extracanonical and related literature) are welcome, and contributions that transcend the traditional boundary between textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament textual criticism are especially encouraged."

Tikkun
Tikkun magazine began publication in 1986 as the liberal alternative to the voices of Jewish conservatism and spiritual deadness in the Jewish world and as the spiritual alternative to the voices of materialism and selfishness in Western society.."

Women in Judaism - A Multidisciplinary Journal

Yad Vashem On-Line Magazine

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Online Galleries
"View samples from and read about some of YIVO's current and recent exhibitions and explore examples of artifacts from the Archives and Photographic collections by touring the online galleries listed below."

Zameki po evreyskoy istorii
A scholarly Russian-language Jewish electronic journal.

Academic Discussion Lists

Ancient Bible [Hebrew Scriptures] History
E-mail discussion list.
"Scholarly debate. Students welcome. Personal opinions, contributions, topic suggestions, resources and other materials are invited...This is a Historical Forum and absolutely -NOT INTENDED- for church promotion or religious bias. Absolutely non-denominational. No proselytizing."

B-Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew Mailing List
"...is an e-mail conference of academic professionals, teachers, students, clergy and laity, people of any faith, devoted to a better understanding of the Hebrew Bible. As such we often discuss a variety of topics related to the Biblical languages, the history of the text and its study, the culture of the Ancient Near East, the literary analysis of the Hebrew Bible, and more."

H-Antisemitism
"H-Antisemitism encourages scholarly discussion of the history of antisemitism and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids."

H-Holocaust
"H-Holocaust exists so scholars of the Holocaust can communicate with each other using this innovative and exciting new technology. This is primarily, though not exclusively an academic list. Coverage of the list will include the Holocaust itself, and closely related topics like anti-semitism, and Jewish history in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as closely related themes in the history of WW2, Germany, and international diplomacy."

H-Judaic
Jewish Studies Network (JSN)
"...an affiliate of Hebrew College and Shamash. Our H-Judaic discussion is a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine since 1993...With over 2000 subscribers worldwide, JSN is the premier electronic source concerning Judaica and the academic study and discussion of Judaism ancient, mediaeval, and modern."

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