Individual Works
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933—1945
From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Two-volume searchable encyclopedia from Indiana University Press with over 2,200 sites of detention, torture, and murder—many of which are described nowhere else in English.
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Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel
From Touro College. The 19-volume Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel was compiled and published by David Tidhar (1897-1970) over the 23 years from 1947 until his death.
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Holocaust Encyclopedia
From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Searchable by keyword and browsable by topic.
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Jewish Encyclopedia
From the Jewish Encyclopedia. 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.
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Jewish Virtual Library
From the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise,. The Library has 13 wings: Anti-Semitism , Biography History Holocaust Israel Israel Education Myths & Facts Politics Religion Travel US & Israel Vital Stats Women. In addition, the JVL has a Bookstore, Glossary, Links, News, Publications, a Timeline of Jewish History, and the Virtual Israel Experience (VIE), an educational tool and virtual tour of Israel designed especially for students going on Birthright and other trips to Israel. The VIE highlights Israel's ancient history accentuated against its timeless beauty and modern culture.
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Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
From the Jewish Women’s Archive. The Encyclopedia features over 1,700 biographies, 300 thematic essays, and 1,400 photographs and illustrations on a wide range of Jewish women through the centuries -- from Gertrude Berg to Gertrude Stein; Hannah Greenebaum Solomon to Hannah Arendt; the Biblical Ruth to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Jewish Women’s Archive Multimedia Gallery
From the Jewish Women’s Archive. Here you can browse and filter our many primary sources. Browse by type, topic, and format, or search by a keyword. All of JWA's images, audio, and videos are collected here.
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The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
From Yale University. Press. More than fifteen years in the making, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization is a landmark ten–volume series that collects 3,000 years of Jewish literature, artwork, and artifacts, presenting the best of Jewish culture in its historic and global entirety. This ambitious undertaking is the result of an ongoing collaboration between Yale University Press and the Posen Foundation, which works internationally to support Jewish education.
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YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
From YIVO. The only resource of its kind, this encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present
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Jewish Book Annual
From the Center for Jewish History. Digitized collection of the Jewish Book Annual from 1942-1999 published by the Jewish Book Council. “Each volume included a review of the previous year in Jewish literature; a complete bibliography in fiction, nonfiction, and children's books; samples of Jewish book programs across the country for Jewish Book Month; and essays on important figures in
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Sefer HaAgadah
From the Avi Chai Foundation. A complete,updated version of The Book of Legends. by Chayim Nachman Bialik. The stories and legends are searchable by category and by keyword, and the text is vocalized. There is also an illustrated
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Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian
From the Avi Chai Foundation. 11-volume Jewish encyclopedia for the Russian-speaking public.
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Encyclopedia of the Yiddish Theater
From the Digital Yiddish Theater Project. This site provides access to a number of volumes of the encyclopedia by Zalmen Zylbercweig entitled Leksikon fun yidishn teater.
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American Jewish Yearbook
From the American Jewish Committee. Full text of the volumes from 1899 to the present that provide articles and information about Jewish issues annually.
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The Survivors' Talmud
From the Center for Jewish History. The entire Talmud printed in Munich, Germany in 1948 by the US Army for those in the displaced persons camp who had survived the Holocaust.
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From the Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad. Digitized collection of materials about Chabad Hasidism.
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From Marcus Jastrow. This project is a digitized version of Marcus Jastrow's classic reference work A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (London/New York, 1903).
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From TEI Publishers. Search the text of Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue in English, Hebrew or Arabic and see a map of the places mentioned in it.
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Spanish-Language Books about Jewish People and History
From the Congreso Judio Latinoamericano. 190 full text books about famous Jews and events in Jewish history
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Jewish Photo Library
From Jono David. More than 120,000 pictures of Jewish life in 116 countries.
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