Europe
Central Jewish Library of Poland
From the Jewish Historical Institute. "The Central Jewish Library (CJL) is a digital version of the collections of the Jewish Historical Institute. The mission of the CJL is to make all collections of the JHI available and also, by placing them in a historical context, to create working tools for historians, genealogists and people interested in the culture and history of Jews in Poland. The CJL’s collections include the Ringelblum Archive registered by UNESCO as a part of Memory of the World Program."
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Dutch Jewish Library
From Crescas: The Jewish Educational Center. A digital library of more than 4000 books that can be freely read or downloaded. A project of the Jewish Educational Center "Crescas" in the Netherlands for the preservation of the Jewish cultural heritage.
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Estonian Historical Archives
From Ravusarhiiv. "The digitised records available online contain records of the National Archives and the Tallinn City Archives. Along with digital images, film recordings, maps, seals and parchments are available to search online."
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French Jewish Cemetery Registers
From Stanford University.
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Hebrew and Yiddish Language Materials from Lithuania
From the Lithuanian Digital Cultural Heritage. The recently launched website Epaveldas - Lithuanian Digital Cultural Heritage contains digital sources from the National Library of Lithuania, the Lithuanian Art Museum and the Lithuanian Archives Department, brought together in a single databank. Among these digital sources are several Yiddish documents, newspapers and periodicals.
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History of the Jews in Italy
From the Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center. Material about Italian Jewish history and culture.
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Italian Jewish Community Regulations
From Columbia University. This collection contains about forty broadsides regarding communal and governmental regulations imposed in various Jewish communities throughout Italy from the 17th through the 19th centuries.
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Jewish Texts in Italian
From Torah.it. Download full texts of siddurim, machzorim, the Tanach, Mishna, commentaries, cookbooks, and Holocaust material in Italian.
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Key Documents of German Jewish History
From the Institute for the History of German Jews (IGdJ). This online source edition published by the Institute for the History of German Jews (IGdJ) highlights key aspects in Hamburg’s Jewish history from the early modern age to the present using a selection of 'key documents'.
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Leo Baeck Institute
From the Center for Jewish History.
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Léon Lipschutz collection of Dreyfusiana and French Judaica
From Brandeis University. This collection consists primarily of materials related to the Dreyfus Affair; there is also a small but notable group of documents that focus on Jewish life and intellectualism in France from the late 1700s to the mid-twentieth century.
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Menasseh Ben Israel
From the University of Amsterdam. "The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana acquired a collection of books, printed by Menasseh, which is almost complete. At present the collection consists of 70 editions, in total some 75 editions have been printed."
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Spinoza House Archive
From the University of Haifa. Writings, correspondences and various documents about Spinoza, collected by Dr. Georg Herz Shikmoni at the Spinoza House (Spinozeum), an institute he founded on Mt. Carmel in Haifa on July 2, 1950.
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Synagogue Internet Archive
From Darmstadt Technical University. The Synagogue Internet Archive provides information about more than 2200 German and Austrian synagogues, including images, text, comments and links. The archive is classified in synagogues that existed in 1933, that were built after 1945 and synagogues from the Middle Ages.
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We Were There Too: London Jews in the First World War
From London Jewish Cultural Centre. "We Were There Too is a unique cross community project created to capture, record and preserve the impact, experience and contribution of London’s Jewish communities during the First World War era."
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Jewish Life in Britain
From the Jewish Museum of London. British Jewish life in the UK from the Norman conquest to the 21st century through this searchable collection that includes many thematic sections such as Jewish Britain in 50 objects.
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Historic Synagogues of Europe
From The Foundation for Jewish Heritage. "An interactive survey map of more than 3,000 synagogues in 48 countries, with information on their age, type, style, current condition, and present usage.”
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Epidat - The Database of Jewish Epigraphy
From the Sternheim Institute. This site in German and English provides images of about 35,000 epigraphs.
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Jewish Cultural Quarter
From the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. You can use this Dutch language site to search the digitized collections of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.
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Frankfurt Jewish Digital Collections
From Goethe University. This site provides access to the extensive digitized collections available from this German university including Compact Memory – the largest online archive of Jewish periodicals in the German speaking realm, including Hebrew periodicals; the Freimann Collection, a prewar collection of Jewish Studies (Wissenschaft des Judentums), Jiddische Drucke in Yiddish, Judaica Frankfurt, Hebrew Incunabula and Manuscripts and the Rothschild Collection.
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Jewish Pamphlets
From University College, London. “UCL Library Services holds printed, manuscript and archival collections of Hebraica and Judaica which are of national and international importance, including several significant pamphlet collections. These collections formed part of the Mocatta Library, which was jointly founded by UCL and the Jewish Historical Society of England in 1906, after the philanthropist and bibliophile Frederic David Mocatta left his vast library to the Society. Mocatta’s collection was enriched by other donations and purchases in the early 20th century, becoming one of the finest and most comprehensive Jewish Studies libraries in the United Kingdom.”
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Jewish Life in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
From the Jewish Museum in Prague. “The Jewish Museum in Prague holds unique collections on the history and culture of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia - from objects of religious character, through artifacts of private nature, photos, art work to archival sources and oral history interviews."
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Jewish Life in Hungary
From the Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár / Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives.
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National Museum of Hispanic-Jewish Art
From the Museo Sefardi in Toledo, Spain. Materials including tombstones related to Jewish life in Spain, particularly prior to the expulsion in 1492.
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Betsalel
From MAHJ: The Museum of the Art and History of Judaism. Partial digitization of the holdings of the museum in Paris that can be searched or browsed in French.
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Jewish History in South Wales
From the Jewish History Association of South Wales (JHASW). Digitized collection of materials related to the history of Jews in South Wales, searchable in English and Welsh.
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Anti-Semitism in Italy
From the Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea: Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center - CDEC. Browsable collection of photographs of anti-Semitic incidents in Italy and Europe since 1970 available on this Italian language site.
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Jewish Life in Greece
From the Jewish Museum of Greece. More than 10,000 original artifacts, browsable by category, which document the material evidences of 2.300 years of Jewish history and culture in Greece.
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Blavatnik Archive
From the Blavatnik Archive. “The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating materials that contribute to the study of 20th-century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia.” The collection contains 10,000 Judaica-themed postcards and 74 posters in 2005, the Archive has substantially expanded the thematic scope of its holdings. Major additions were made through the Veteran Oral History Project (2006–2014) and through the 2014 acquisitions of 52,000 World War I postcards; 22,000 National Socialist Party ephemera; 5,000 World War II ephemera; and 1,300 Leningrad Siege postcards. Currently the Archive comprises over 113,000 items across 15 collections, including video testimonies, postcards, photographs, posters, drawings, illustrations, diaries, letters, state-issued documents, leaflets, periodicals, and books.
