Internet Resources in Jewish Studies A Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory Academy of the Hebrew Language - The Hebrew Language Institute. Brought into being by legislation in 1953 as the supreme institute for the Hebrew Language, the Academy of the Hebrew Language prescribes standards for modern Hebrew grammar, orthography, transliteration, and punctuation based upon the study of Hebrew’s historical development. The Academy’s functions are: (1) to investigate and compile the Hebrew lexicon according to its historical strata and layers; (2) to study the structure, history, and offshoots of the Hebrew language; (3) to direct the development of Hebrew in light of its nature, requirements, and potential, its daily and academic needs, by setting its lexicon, grammar, characters, orthography, and transliteration. All-Kosher Index™ (World Wide Kashruth Authorities) American Academy of Jewish Research / AAJR American Jewish Archives American Jewish Committee Archives Filled with more than a million documents and hundreds of movies and radio shows, the New York-based American Jewish Committee Archives house an extraordinary range of resources on the past century of American Jewish history. American Jewish Historical Society Founded in 1892, the mission of the American Jewish Historical Society is to foster awareness and appreciation of the American Jewish heritage and to serve as a national scholarly resource for research through the collection, preservation and dissemination of materials relating to American Jewish history. The American Jewish Historical Society is the oldest national ethnic historical organization in the United States. The Society’s library, archives, photograph, and art and artifacts collections document the American Jewish experience. American Jewish Year Book (American Jewish Committee Archives) Online access to volumes of the American Jewish Year Book from 1899 to the 2000. American Sephardi Federation The American Sephardi Federation, officially organized in 1973, is envisioned as an organization to strengthen and organize the religious and cultural activities of Sephardic Jews, and preserve the Sephardic heritage, tradition and culture in the United States and throughout the world. The American Sephardi Federation with Sephardic House operates as one national Jewish organization with local chapters. It is dedicated to ensuring that the history, legacies and traditions of the great Sephardic communities throughout the world be recorded, remembered and celebrated as an integral part of Jewish heritage. Antisemitism: Stephen Roth Institute Antisemitism : The Holocaust, Neo-Fascism, "Anti-Zionism" & Black Antisemitism (Jack Ross) Ask the Rabbi (Ohr Somayach Tanenbaum College) Association for Jewish Studies / AJS Association of Jewish Libraries / AJL B Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center is both a Research Institute and a Museum, with an impressive collection of ethnographic material, judaica, archival documents, books and manuscripts. The BJHC publishes research work and journals, organizes exhibitions and holds cultural events and conferences. We have strong ties with Jews of Iraqi origin both in Israel and in the Diaspora, and are in the process of compiling an extensive genealogical database of families originating in Iraq. Ben Zvi Institute for research of Eastern Jewry The Ben Zvi Institute, under the joint auspices of Yad Ben Zvi and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studies the cultures of Jews of Moslem lands, Africa and Asia. Bergen-Belsen Photographs Guide and Finding aid created by Joyce Dewsbury University of Florida Smathers Libraries - Special and Area Studies Collections Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora: The Museum of the Jewish People ONLINE Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, exists to convey the story of the Jewish people from the time of their expulsion from the Land of Israel 2,500 years ago to the present. It relates the unique story of the continuity of the Jewish people through exhibition, education and cultural endeavours, providing multiple avenues of personal historical identification. Bibliographies on Jewish Studies (Columbia University Libraries) Bibliography of North American Jewish Community (IAJGS) Bibliography of Zionism (Jews of Islamic Countries Archiving Project, Tel Aviv University) B'TSELEM - The Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Bulletin de l'Alliance Israelite Universelle (The Jewish Press Site, Jews of Islamic Countries Archiving Project, Tel Aviv University). Paris, published by the Alliance Israélite Universelle,1860-1913 C Casa Shalom - The Institute for Marrano-Anusim Studies Gan Yavne - Israel Casa Shalom, the Institute for Marrano-Anusim Studies, is a centre for the study and collection of material on individual and collective secret Jews from all over the world: Jews of Meshed, Ireland, Sao Tome , New Mexico, South America, Cuba and other Caribbean islands, Spain, Portugal, Balearic Islands. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library (University of Pennsylvania Libraries) Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Web Exhibits (University of Pennsylvania Libraries) Center for Jewish History The Center embodies a unique partnership of five major institutions of Jewish scholarship, history, and art: the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, the Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Center for Research Libraries : U.S. Jewish Ethnic Newspapers. Click here for holdings of all U.S. Jewish Newpapers at the CRL Central Zionist Archives Chapters of the Talmud (adapted from Strack, Hermann L. Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1931. Appendix III, "The opening words of those chapters in the Babylonian Talmud which have Gemara, in alphabetical order" (p. 368-372); compiled by Joan Biella, Library of Congress, in collaboration with Rachel Simon, Princeton University) Compact Memory (Internetarchiv judischer Periodika) Valuable resource of German Jewish Periodicals from the 18th to the 20th centuries; Click here for list of online holdings The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon / CAL (Hebrew Union College / Jewish Institute of Religion This major scholarly reference work, covering all dialects and periods of ancient Aramaic, one of the principal languages of antiquity, with a literature of central importance for history and civilization, and especially for the Jewish and Christian religions. Unicode compliant Hebrew character search interface. It includes the CAL Targumic Studies Module , allowing one to: display all the targumic versions of a Biblical passage (Onkelos, Jonathan, Pseudo-Jonathan, Sheni, Neofiti, Fragments); browse a single targum, with lexical analysis; create a concordance; study the Targumic reflexes of Biblical Hebrew lemmas. Council of American Jewish Museums / CAJM Council of Archives and Research Libraries in Jewish Studies / CARLJS CRIF - Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France In Frecnh. Website representing the French Jewish Communities; includes information on communities, contemporary issues, articles, and book reviews. D Databases for research in Jewish Studies (Research Gateway) (Some restricted to UF students and faculty and staff. For off-campus access, use the UF VPN Service or the Library proxy) The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) E Early Hebrew Newspapers: Hazevi, Halevanon, Hamagid, Havazelet, Hazefirah, Hameliz (David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project, Jewish National & University Library, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Contains: Halevanon (1863-1886) Hamagid (1856-1903) Havazelet (1863-1911) Hazefirah (1862-1931) Hameliz (1860-1904) Hazevi / Haor / Hashkafa (1884-1914) Encyclopaedia Judaica [electronic resource] / Fred Skolnik, editor-in-chief ; Michael Berenbaum, executive editor. (db-direct Resource restricted to UF students, faculty, and staff: for off-campus access, use the UF VPN Service or the Library proxy) Einstein Archives Online (David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project, Jewish National & University Library, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Einstein Archives Online Website provides the first online access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to an extensive Archival Database, constituting the material record of one of the most influential intellects in the modern era. eJewish.info (The Jewish Agency) Emanuel Synagogue Seminar on Martin Buber (Transcript) Finding aid prepared by John R. Nemmers University of Florida Smathers Libraries - Special and Area Studies Collections ENGAGE Essential Yiddish Books : 1000 Great Works from the Collection of the National Yiddish Book Center / Compiled by Zachary M. Baker (Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, National Yiddish Book Center (Requires Acrobat Reader) European Council of Jewish Communities F Feher Jewish Music Center (Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora) The collection contains some 7,500 recordings covering the vast scope of Jewish music: traditional singing of the Jews of Morocco, Yemen, Bombay and Spain; the music of communities that vanished in the Holocaust - Kongsberg, Danzig and Berlin; compositions in Hasidic style by Joachim Stutschewsky and others; choral music based