Resources
The following online resources were selected and annotated by Ignat Ayzenberg (2019) and Vicki Harrison (2022-23). Please contact me with suggested additions/corrections to these resources.
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- Guides
- Encyclopedias
- Digital Archives
- Religious Texts
- Contemporary Life and Culture
- Regional, National, International Organizations
- Opportunities
Guides
SJSU Library | The SJSU library provides each student special research guidance in Judaica.
Jewish Studies Library Guides | Links to Jewish Studies in United States, Israel, Europe, and Australia
Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art | Jews attract many a stereotype: the “Wandering Jew,” the “International Jew”, the “Moneyed Jew”, even the “Artless Jew.”
Jewish Virtual Library | A repository of secondary and primary sources, documents, and pictures, with emphasis on modern history
Encyclopedias
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe | East European Jewish life and culture before, during, and after its total destruction in the Holocaust
The Jewish Encyclopedia | The first major modern undertaking to encapsulate the Jewish experience categorically
Digital Archives
American Jewish Committee Archive | At the forefront of political issues concerning world Jewry of the past century
American Jewish Historical Society | On Jews of North America
Center for Jewish History Digital Collection | The virtual epicenter of Jewish history and memory
Digital Judaica | The major collection of publications, books and periodicals, housed in Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany—going back to the original printing press of Johannes Gutenberg
Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society | Judeo-Arabic Corpus
Hermanns, William papers | SJSU archives house this important collection of the emeritus professor, including his relationship with Albert Einstein.
Historical Jewish Press | Access to hundreds of Jewish periodicals, newspapers, journals, and magazines, in dozens of languages from all over the world in the last three centuries
Iraqi Jewish Archive | On Jews of Iraq
Jewish Digital Archive Project | On Jews of South Africa
J. Archives; The Jewish News of Northern California, 1895-2021
Ladino Digital Archive | Judeo-Spanish at your finger tips
Magnes Collection of Life and Art | The largest collection of Jewish material culture on the west coast
The Leo Baeck Institute | The German-Jewish symbiosis
Rabat Genizah Project | The Rabat Genizah Project brings together an international team of community representatives, scholars, archivists, and information technologists to develop a digital archive of Moroccan Jewish documents.
Recalling Jewish Calcutta | On Jews of India
Yeshiva University Digital Library | Documents related to Modern Orthodox Judaism, primarily in United States
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive | The virtual cinema that provides access to films in a variety of categories
Yiddish Book Center | Spearheading the revival of Yiddish culture in the 21st century
YIVO Institute Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland | The preservation of the Yiddish culture destroyed in the Holocaust
Religious Texts
Dead Sea Scrolls | The oldest physical attestation for the Hebrew Bible
Sefaria: A Living Library of Jewish Texts | An open-source collection of the major Biblical, esoteric, legalistic, philosophical texts in Hebrew or Aramaic with English translation and commentary
Hebrewbooks.org | The massive private library of the Chabad/Lubavitcher Hasidic court in Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York
Open Siddur Project | The most widely influential literary phenomenon in Jewish history was not the Hebrew Bible, but the Siddur - the prayer book, which tied the many scattered communities together, as well as, set them apart
Contemporary Life and Culture
Chabad | The daily Mitzvah of Torah study
Haaretz | The neo-liberal & old-left Israeli point of view
J. | The Jewish News of Northern California
Jewish Currents | “Thoughts, Activism, Journalism from the Jewish Left”
Jewish Free Culture | The flagship for open-source Judaism
Jewish Review of Books | The academic approach to American Jewish issues
Jerusalem Post | The neo-liberal point of view on Israel
Jimena | Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews; see a new collection of lesson plans, offering resources, as well, on the teaching of antisemitism.
Tablet Magazine | “A New Read on Jewish Life”
Mosaic | “Advancing Jewish Thought”
Regional, National, International Organizations
AMCHA Initiative--an organization that investigages anti-Semitism on college campuses
Ameinu - Liberal Values, Progressive Israel
American Jewish Joint Distribution
Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project
Jewish Federation of North America
The Jewish People Policy Institute
World ORT - Worldwide Educational NGO
Opportunities
