Sephardim
American Sephardi Federation
From the Center for Jewish History.
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Iraqi Jewish Archives
From the Iraqi Jewish Archives. The collection of books and documents is organized in a database with 3,846 entries of two types: Published books (more than 2,700) and unpublished archival materials .
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Judeo-Arabic Corpus
From the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society. Includes more than one hundred works in this language, a total of about four million words. Alongside it is a full bibliography of all publications in the field of Judeo-Arabic with bibliographical lexicon.
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Mizrahi and Sephardic Oral History and Digital Experience Project
From Jimena. JIMENA’s Mizrahi and Sephardic Oral History and Digital Experience Website Project was created in 2010 to record and preserve the testimonies and narratives of Jews displaced from the Middle East and North Africa. Countries covered include Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.
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Recalling Jewish Calcutta
From Recalling Jewish Calcutta. Jewish life in India.
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Sephardic Studies Project
From Stanford University. Focuses on the written production in Ladino of the Judeo-Spanish communities of the Ottoman Empire.
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The Rabat Genizah Project
From the Jewish Museum of Casablanca. The
genizah repository is housed at the Casablanca Jewish Museum in Morocco. The collection includes community records, photographs, public notices, pedagogical materials, poetic manuscripts, canonical Jewish texts, rabbinical commentaries, liturgical supplements, and a wide range of other published and unpublished materials. Sephardic Studies Digital Library and Museum
From The University of Washington. Digitized collection of materials from members of the local Seattle Sephardic community that includes holiday materials, postcards, textbooks and community publications in Ladino. Also of interest is the Benmayor Collection of Sephardic Ballads that contains recordings of 140 traditional songs sung by Sephardic Jews.
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Johanna Spector Film Collection
From the Jewish Theological Seminary. A collection documenting the nearly extinct musical and communal traditions of several non-Western Jewish cultures that have survived over the last 2,000 years in India, Yemen, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Armenia, and other regions in the Middle East and India, have been digitized. The films and audio, recorded from 1960 to 1989 during the making of her ethnographic documentaries, are a treasure-trove of unused footage shedding light on the religious ceremonies and traditions of vanishing cultures-such as those of the Jews of Cochin and B'nai-Israel Jews of India, Yemenite Jews, and the nearly extinct Samaritans of Israel-all before dispersal from their native lands
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