Online Resources Jewish Studies „Corona Service“

Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, research institutions, archives and libraries were closed and many still only a limited service. In March and April, the Specialized Information Service (SIS) Jewish Studies initially collected information on digital resources through its Twitter account and is presented here in a structured manner.

This list does not claim to be complete, we are happy to receive references to further resources at [email protected].

Status: September 30, 2020

Contents

1. General information ...... 2 2. Journals – freely accessible or via the SIS ...... 2 3. Digital collections ...... 2 4. Digital editions and Projects ...... 3 5. Blogs ...... 4 6. Podcasts ...... 4 7. Museums and Memorials online ...... 5 8. Online courses and videos ...... 6

Online Resources Jewish Studies | ”Corona Service“

1. General information • The Digital Collections with the Hebraica & Judaica holdings of the University Library http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/judaica • SIS Jewish Studies Portal www.jewishstudies.de • Licenses by the SIS Jewish Studies - free registration for researchers of Jewish Studies and adjacent https://juedische-studien.fid-lizenzen.de • freely accessible resources at JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/open/ • On the open access platform Muse, numerous publishers make their digital offers temporarily available to the public https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/?utm_medium=social&utm_sourc e=twitter&utm_campaign=freeaccess • Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Research Guide https://guides.library.brandeis.edu/schusterman_home

2. Journals – freely accessible or via the SIS • Open Access o Medaon. Journal for Jewish Life in Research and Education (Articles in German & English) https://www.medaon.de/en/ PaRDeS – Journal of the (German) Association for Jewish Studies https://shop.verlag.uni-potsdam.de/en/zeitschriften/pardes/ o Quest. Issue in Contemporary Jewish History http://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/about.php o Tradition. A Journal of Modern Orthodox Thought (except for the most recent one all issues are freely accessible) https://traditiononline.org/archives/ o Religion. Open Access Journal https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions o American Jewish Archive Journal http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/ o - new - several journals of the Jewish press of Switzerland, partly freely accessible https://collections.afz.ethz.ch/serie • Licenses by the SIS Jewish Studies after free registration for researchers based in engaged in research in Jewish Studies & Israel Studies o JSTOR Complete Jewish Studies Collection https://juedische-studien.fid-lizenzen.de/angebote/nlproduct.2016-11-17.5929917788 o Journal of Ancient Judaism https://juedische-studien.fid-lizenzen.de/angebote/nlproduct.2019-09-20.2424001832

3. Digital collections • The Judaica Collection, University Library Frankfurt am Main http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/judaica • Digital Collection of the National Library of Israel https://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/digitallibrary/dlib/Pages/default.aspx • Ktiv. Database for digitized Hebrew manuscripts worldwide https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nlis/en/manuscript

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Online Resources Jewish Studies | ”Corona Service“

• Europeana - contains the Judaica Europeana (Digital Jewish Cultural Heritage Europe) https://www.europeana.eu/de • Digital collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France with many Hebraica and Judaica www.gallica.bnf.fr • Library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle https://www.bibliotheque-numerique-aiu.org/ • Hebrew Books http://www.hebrewbooks.org • DigiBaeck – Digital Collection of the Leo Baeck Institute New York/Berlin https://www.lbi.org/collections/digibaeck/ • YIVO Books http://yivolibrarybooks.org/ • YIVO Wilna Collection https://vilnacollections.yivo.org/ • Yiddish Book Center https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/ • Jewish Theological Seminary https://digitalcollections.jtsa.edu/ • Michelle Chesner, Columbia University Library, published on Twitter a list of useful information for Jewish Studies https://twitter.com/hchesner/status/1240775852641697792 • The Moscow State Yiddish Theater Collection at the Blavatnik Archive Foundation https://www.blavatnikarchive.org/collection/2 • Digital Library of the Middle East https://dlmenetwork.org/library • Poetic Textures Else Lasker-Schüler Archives by the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach & online presentation via YouTube https://www.laskerschuelerarchives.org/ https://youtu.be/JbLnHaIPA80 • - new - Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, free access after registration https://www.posenlibrary.com/ •

4. Digital editions and Projects • Sefaria - Online edition of Tanach, Talmud and Jewish commentary literature www.sefaria.org • Key documents on German-Jewish history including online exhibitions (Sources in German, Descriptions in German & English) https://juedische-geschichte-online.net • Yahad.net – A Jewish Heritage Network Project – Platform for Pesach with collection of digitally available Haggadot https://yahad.net/ • Mapping modern Jewish cultures by Shachar Pinsker – online project about the development of Modern Jewish Cultures in the urban environment https://richbrew.org/ Distant Reading in the Hebrew Novel, Risks and :רומן מפתח - new - “Roman Mafteach - • Chances” New project of the Literary Lab at Ben Gurion University https://www.lit-lab.bgu.ac.il/the-hebrew-novel

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Online Resources Jewish Studies | ”Corona Service“

5. Blogs • The Librarians / HaSafranim – Blog of the National Library of Israel https://blog.nli.org.il/en/ (English) https://blog.nli.org.il (Hebrew) • Jewish Philosophy Place – Blog by Zachary Braiterman (Syracuse University) https://jewishphilosophyplace.com • The Seforim Blog – All About Seforim, New and Old, and Jewish Bibliography https://seforimblog.com/about/ • Footprints: Jewish Books through Time and Place – Blog about the project https://edblogs.columbia.edu/footprints/ • Knowledge in Circulation – Blog about a research project on esoteric knowledge in early modern Jewish manuscripts https://esknowcirc.hypotheses.org • Yiddish Song of the Week https://yiddishsong.wordpress.com • talmud.de – Jüdisches Leben heute (German) https://www.talmud.de/ • Lehrhaus – Orthodox Blog Project https://thelehrhaus.com/ • Torah.com – Blog about the Torah and its topics https://www.thetorah.com/

→ for blogs run by museums see 7.

6. Podcasts • General introductory podcasts of public service broadcasters o Deutschlandfunk Kultur every Friday on air & available as podcast „Aus der Jüdischen Welt“ (German) https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/aus-der-juedischen-welt.1078.de.html o hr2 kultur „Jüdische Welt“ (German) https://www.hr2.de/podcasts/juedische-welt/index.html o wdr5 radio programme Tiefenblick with 4 episodes on „Juden und Judentum“ (German) https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/tiefenblick/juden-und-judentum-102.html o Lectures by Prof. Dr. Samuel Salzborn on topics from the political science and social science via Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1cjUnM4bDG2bPrrumZ32E4 • Podcasts from the Jewish Studies o „Jüdische Geschichte“ by and with Daniel Mahla from the Department of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich (German) https://www.jgk.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/podcast/index.html o Jewish History Matters FM by and with Jason Lustig https://www.jewishhistory.fm/ o AJS Adventure in Jewish Studies Podcast series https://associationforjewishstudies.org/publications-research/adventures-in-jewish-studies- podcast o Podcast of the Jewish Women’s Archive https://jwa.org/podcasts/canwetalk o Podcast of the Hebrew Union College https://collegecommons.huc.edu/bully-pulpit/

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Online Resources Jewish Studies | ”Corona Service“

o “What’s New? What’s Next? Jewish Studies in the time of pandemic” Podcast by POLIN Museum https://polin.pl/en/podcasts-geop-whats-new-whats-next o - new - “In Times Gone By” Podcast by Australian Jewish Historical Society https://www.ajhs.com.au/podcast/ o - new - „Jüdische Geschichte Kompakt“ Podcast by the Institute for the History of the German Jews (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, IGdJ) (German) https://juedischegeschichtekompakt.podigee.io/ o - new - Schon immer Tachles“ Podcast by the Central Council of Jews in Germany (German) https://www.zentralratderjuden.de/aktuelle-meldung/artikel/news/schon-immer-tachles- podcast/ • Podcasts from the Israel Studies o Podcast of the Israel Studies Seminar of the University of Oxford https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/israel-studies-seminar o „Mekka und Jerusalem“ – A podcast on Jewish-Muslim relations, by and with Johannes Becke and Frederek Musall, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg (German) https://www.hfjs.eu/mekka_jerusalem/start.html o Israel Hour Radio on air and as podcast https://www.myisraelimusic.com/podcast-2/ o Tel Aviv Review Podcast by TLV1 – Scientific reviews and discussions https://tlv1.fm/podcasts/tel-aviv-review-show/ International Hour by Radio Kan השעה הבינלאומית – כאן עולמי o https://www.kan.org.il/podcast/program.aspx/?progId=2058 Podcast on society and culture by Radio Kan – גם כן תרבות o https://www.kan.org.il/podcast/program.aspx/?progid=11 Political podcast by and with Daphna Liel – עושים פוליטיקה o ttps://www.ranlevi.com/osim_politica/ o - new - Podcasts by Israel Democracy Institute https://en.idi.org.il/podcasts/ o - new - „Israel in Depth“ Podcast by Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at University of California, Los Angeles https://www.international.ucla.edu/israel/israelindepthpodcasts/ o

7. Museums and Memorials online • Digital Day 2020 (June 12, 2020) (German) https://www.annefranktag.de/digitale-angebote-2020/ • Google Arts & Culture – virtual exhibitions & object shows o , Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Jewish Museum Wien, Jewish Museum New York, Jewish Museum https://artsandculture.google.com/search/partner?q=Jewish%20museum o Israel Museum https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/the-israel-museum-jerusalem/iQEu5- RzOm82-A • Object database & online showcase Jewish Museum Berlin (German) http://objekte.jmberlin.de/home.seam https://www.jmberlin.de/online-schaukasten • Facebook Live Talks on objects, other videos & blog of the Jewish Museum London https://www.facebook.com/pg/JewishMuseumLDN/videos/?ref=page_internal https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/category/learning-news/

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Online Resources Jewish Studies | ”Corona Service“

• Blog & online showcase Jewish Museum Frankfurt (German) https://www.juedischesmuseum.de/blog/ https://www.facebook.com/juedischesmuseumffm/ • Audio tours of the Jewish Museum New York https://tours.thejewishmuseum.org/ • Audio tours of the Topographie des Terrors Berlin (German) https://www.topographie.de/ausstellungen/topographie-des-terrors/ • Online resources Jewish Museum Rendsburg (German) https://jmrd.de/ • Virtual comic exhibition of 12 Israeli artists https://www.imaj.be/expo-bd/ • - new - „Exploring Sephardic Life Cycle Customs“ Online Exhibition by the Sephardic Studies Program at University of Washington http://jewishstudies.washington.edu/omeka/ • Do-it-yourself ideas not only for children o Shadow show of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt (German) https://www.juedischesmuseum.de/blog/schattenspiel-gegen-corona/ o Painting templates & activities for children of the Israel Museum https://www.imj.org.il/en/events/museum-closed-come • Online resources of memorial sites on the occasion of 75 years end of war and liberation o #LichterGegenDunkelheit – Gemeinsame Initiative der Gedenkstätten (German) https://www.lichter-gegen-dunkelheit.de o Virtual commemoration of the Dachau concentration camp memorial (German) https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/veranstaltungen/75-jahrestag/ o Facebook page of the Dachau concentration camp memorial site with live tours (German) https://www.facebook.com/pg/DachauMemorial/videos/?ref=page_internal o Theme page of the German Historical Museum on the 75th anniversary of the end of the war (German) https://www.dhm.de/kalender/8-mai-75-jahre-kriegsende.html o Digital memorial of the Arolsen Archives https://arolsen-archives.org/en/learn-participate/interactive-archive/everynamecounts/

8. Online courses and videos • AJS Webinar Archive https://associationforjewishstudies.org/professional-development/webinars/past-webinars • YIVO Facebook Live Talks https://www.facebook.com/YIVOInstitute/posts/3302756563090682 • YIVO’s Shine Online Educational Series https://yivo.org/shine • Yad Vashem online courses on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism https://www.yadvashem.org/education/online-courses.html • Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiVHixhCcFsc6r1E9F_fCaQ • Center for Jewish History on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG-AeN6L-1INwOABRWVaUrA • Leo Baeck Institute New York on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/leobaeckinstitute • Barry Wimpfheimer’s (Northwestern University) “Introduction to Judaism” online course https://sites.northwestern.edu/introductiontojudaism/

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• - new content - Zev Eleff, Lecturer for Jewish History at Touro College on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjb5IepgAsSc9MvDZvAP5vg • Rabbiner J.C. Soussan‘s (Frankfurt/Main) Shiurim on Facebook (German) https://www.facebook.com/pg/Rabbiner-J-C-Soussan- 825115870854382/videos/?ref=page_internal • The Cairo Geniza in the Digital Age: Webinar with Marina Rustow https://youtu.be/2PygDkjnB08 • Virtual Classrooms by Jewish Museum London https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/virtual-classrooms/ • National Library of Israel on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/NLI2010/about • Video lectures from the Holocaust Studies at Western Galilee College https://english.wgalil.ac.il/research/research-centers/holocaust-research/lectures-videos/ • - new - „Meet the Author“ online series by the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Presents https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnGhxjLo1IsdINyuWcFNN5g • - new - YouTube channel of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies incl. the SIMS / Katz Center Lecture Series https://www.youtube.com/user/SchoenbergInstitute/

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