Jewish Studies Metasites, Portals & Gateways

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• 613.org - Can search, browse links to over 600 hours of Jewish audio & video (Parsha, Hasidic stories, Shabbat songs, etc.).



• aish.com - A gateway to Aish HaTorah's international network of learning & inspiration. Has email lists, online learning on topics like 48 ways to wisdom, spirituality, Jewish holidays (introduction to Purim, etc.), relationships, Torah portion of the week, contemporary issues, a site search. Features 24-hour live pictures of the Western Wall. Can Ask the Rabbi.



• AJC Archives (American Jewish Committee) - Has interactive timelines back to the 1900s; AJC radio recordings, scripts, reports, correspondence; historic films & TV shows; the American Jewish Year Book back to 1899; oral histories (6,000 hours of taped interviews & 150,000 pages of transcripts); a site search.



• Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, The - Can search, browse, compare eversions of important U.S. historical primary documents relevant to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, government. Includes The Federalist Papers, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Palestine 1916 to the present, Relations between The United States and Native Americans, etc.



• Beyond the Pale - Has exhibits on the history (Middle Ages, Nazism & The Holocaust, etc.) of the Jewis in Russia. Includes 400 illustrations, 40 links.



• Canada's Digital Collections - Has 600 collections on Canada's history, geography, science, technology, culture. Includes Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People; Toronto's First Synagogues; etc.



• Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), The - A virtual museum of exhibits. Has Center information, histories, narratives, documents, educational resources, links, bibliography, a site search.



• Center for Jewish History - Has Center member information (American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research), research (downloadable [pdf] women in daily life bibiograhy, etc.), educator & teacher resources, family history sources, databases [American Jewish Committee, Office of War. Records, 1918-1921; Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum. Records, 1878-1969; Industrial Removal Office. Records, n.d., 1899-1922; Jewish Immigration Informational Bureau, Galveston Immigration Plan. Records, n.d., 1901-1920. etc.]).



• Chabad.org - Has Parsha & daily study, information on holidays, magazine articles, database of 2,000 centers, enewsletter, etc., site search. Can Ask the Rabbi.



• Diotima - Has material on women & gender in the ancient world (anthology, essays, images, courses & teaching materials, etc.



• Famous Trials - Covers 35 trials (the Nuremberg Trial, 1945-1949, Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692, etc.).



• Foner Books - Has 8 Hebrew translations, information on print-on-demand publishing (contract negotiation, editing, etc.).



• Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies - Has 9 excerpts (text, audio, video) from over 4,300 videotaped interviews spanning 10,000 hours, a site search.



• From Written to Printed Text: The Transmission of Jewish Tradition - A 1996 exhibition of books & manuscripts.



• Garment Worker's Legacy. A - Can search 2,300 library entries of McGill University's Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry. Has photos & audiovisuals from a 1998 exhibit.



• Genizah On-Line Database (GOLD), The - Can search catalog databases (Targumic, medical & para-medical, post-Talmudic rabbinic) & over 1,200 annotated manuscript images.



• Great Assemblage, A - An exhibit of 25 images of Judaica manuscripts & prints from 18th century Italy & early 20th century Palestine, ketubahs, works in Hebrew & Yiddish, etc.



• Guide to Chabad Literature, A - A huge archive. Has multimedia galleries (art & pictures, etc.), links to learning centers, hypertext libraries (essays, etc.), links.



• Hasidic Stories Home Page, The - Has stories in 8 categories, articles in 6 categories, resources (bibliography, links, etc.).



• Hava Nashira Site, The: A Jewish Songleaders Resource - Has over 80 resources & links, a photo gallery, lists of songbooks & recordings, etc.



• Hebrew Songs.com - An index of over 3,800 song lyrics transliterated & translated from Hebrew. Has over 50 links.



• Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The - Has University information, a site search. Includes &/or sponsors the The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History; Israel Social Sciences Data Center; Jewish Music Research Centre; Jewish National & University Library, The; The Melton Centre for Jewish Education; The New Jerusalem Mosaic; The Selz Foundation Hazor Excavations in Memory of Yigael Yadin; etc.



• History of the Jewish People, The - Can search a timeline, major figures, etc., based on E. Birnbaum's book. Covers 69-1939 CE.



• Holocaust Denial on Trial - Has trial transcripts, secondary documentation, timelines, articles, etc., a site search.



• Holocaust Teacher Resource Center (TRC) - Has links to lesson plans & curricula, editorials, essays & publications, bibliographies & videographies, etc., a site search



• Holocaust, The - Has information & links in 26 categories (music, pictures, maps, software, quizzes, etc.).



• Holocaust: The Untold Story - Newseum. An exhibit on American newspaper coverage.



• Holocaust-Era Assets Records - U.S. Department of State. Has reports & links.



• In the First Person - Includes 3,350 personal narrative collections in English worldwide, over 650,000 pages of full-text by over 15,000 people, 3,500 audio & video files & 30,000 bibliographic records, 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, 17,000 oral history entries.



• Incunabula, Hebraica & Judaica - An exhibition catalog of 5 centuries of Hebraica & Judaica, rare Bibles, Hebrew incunables.



• Inscriptions from the Land of Israel - Has maps of sites, a database of images from Beth She'arim, from 330 BCE-614 CE.



• Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs - The official Web site of The State of Israel. Has news, facts, a multimedia timeline, information on terrorism, etc.



• Jerusalem Archaeological Park, The - Has a virtual reconstruction, historical notes & sources, timeline, glossary, bibliography, maps, etc.



• Jewish Heritage Video Collection (JHVC) - Can search information on 200 films & TV programs, film-based courses at nonprofit sites nationwide.



• Jewish Language Research Website - Covers 13 languages (Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Jewish English, etc.). Has links, mailing lists.



• Jewish Law - Has briefs & decisions of court cases, law review & Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society articles, a site search.



• Jewish Museum in Cyberspace - Includes the Jewish-American Hall of Fame, The Handbook of Biblical Numismatics, etc.



• Jewish National & University Library, The - Has Library information, Ancient Maps of Jerusalem, an Early Hebrew Newspapers Project, a Ketubbot Collection, songs, etc. Links to the Einstein Archives Online. In English & Hebrew.



• Jewish People's University of the Air (JPUA) - A series of audiotapes (27 radio courses totaling 341 half-hour lectures) created between 1979 & 1991 to introduce the public to topics in Jewish studies. History, religion, music, literature all surveyed by renowned professors in their fields. Converted to AIFF format by Touro College Libraries & made available as the 1st of Touro Digital Collections on March 16, 2007. Some lectures restricted to the Touro community.



• Jewish Women's Archive - Has teaching (primary sources & lesson plans) & research (hundreds of biographies, organizations, manuscript collections, etc.) resources, exhibits (500 photos, speeches, etc.).



• Jewish-American History on the Web - Covers 19th Century Jewish-American history, poetry & fiction, polemics & philosophy. Includes Jews in the Civil War, Jews in the Wild West, a Civil War database, virtual library (The Occident, Palestine, etc.), etc., a site search.



• JewishFilm.com - Has descriptions of over 1,500 films & videos.



• JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy - Has a FAQ, Family Finder (250,000 names & towns), databases (shtets, etc.), family tree (2 million people) etc., site search. Includes &/or sponsors ShtetLinks, the Yizkor Book Project, etc.



• Jews in America: Our Story - Has multimedia timelines back to 1654 with articles, image galleries, artifacts, audio, video, suggested readings.



• Kashrut.com - Has a Passover guide, information on mislabeled products, articles, links, recipes, etc.



• Kinship and Social Organization - An extensive interactive tutorial. Includes a glossary, FAQs, ancient Hebrews ethnography, etc.



• Knesset English Homepage - The official site. Has information on members, committees, factions, law, elections & state, occasions, a site search. Includes documents (Proclamation of Independence, etc.).



• Kosher Express - Has information on Jewish cooking, recipes, articles, links, etc.



• Kosher Quest - Has information on kosher symbols, lists, updates & alerts; a travel guide; restaurants; Passover guide, tours, recipes; etc.



• Labor & the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee And The Anti-Nazi Struggle - An exhibit of 100 photos & documents from the 1930s.



• Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz, The - A comprehensive online exhibition with essays, interviews, the art of 40 artists, a bibliography, virtual tours of Auschwitz & Birkenau, a glossary.



• Martin Buber Homepage - Has short reviews on his life & work, a bibliography of secondary work.



• Mass Jewish Migration Database (MJMD) - Can search over 3,000 applications of Jews applied to one of the information bureaux in the 'Pale' & migrated to one of the destination countries overseas (U.S.A, Argentina, Canada, South Africa and Palestine). Requires free registration.



• Modern Jewry and the Arts - Penn Library. An 2000-2001 exhibition & bibliography. Covers art, music, theater & film, dance.



• Museum of Tolerance - Has Museum information, teachers' guide, biographies of 115 Holocaust children, the MLC Online (multimedia [3,000 text files with tens of thousands of photos], exhibits, teacher's resources, 13,700 documents on 93 topics, links to 50 bibliographies), etc.



• Nazi Propaganda: 1933-1945 - Includes speeches & writings by Nazi leaders, anti-Semitic material, visual material, war propaganda, etc., a site search.



• Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal - A searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections created before 1946, changeding hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945). The portal helps people seeking lost objects to refine their searches & U.S. museums make information about objects in their collections centrally accessible.



• net.TUTOR - Has 15 interactive tutorials (Citing Net Sources, Evaluating Web Sites, Using Web Search Tools, etc.), resource guides (business, education, health, humanities, math & science, social sciences, etc.), etc.



• Nextbook - Gateway. Has Jewish cultural news, recommended books, public programs, links (20 enewspapers & 70 eperiodicals [not all free], books & reviews, etc.), a site search.



• Office of Science - Has information on U.S. Department of Energy, national laboratories, a grants & contracts Web site, etc.



• OU (Orthodox Union) - Can Ask The Rabbi, join email lists, find jobs, etc. Has information on Shabbot & holidays. Includes Judaism 101, OUKosher.org, Orthodox Synagogue Network, OUnetwork, Shabbat Learning Center, Torah Education Network.



• OWR (Overview of World Religions): Judaism - A graphic overview charts the historical development of groups within Judaism with links to corresponding encyclopedia entries.



• Penn/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project - Can search, browse Cairo Genizah documents written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Judeo-Arabic from the 9th through 15th centuries on the social, cultural, religious lives of Jews around the Mediterranean basin.



• Project Ben-Yehuda - Has poems & prose from classic Hebrew literature.



• Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census - A database of information about over 13,800 worship books printed before 1601.



• Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities - Covers literary theory & critism, philosophy, film, information & technology, etc.



• RFCJ (rec.food.cuisine.jewish newsgroup) - Has a bibliography of 200 cookbooks, a kosher FAQ, archived recipes in over 45 categories.



• Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive - Can search, browse over 28,000 Yiddish & other Jewish songs & albums. Has sound samples, links. Requires Macromedia Flash 5 plug-in.



• Romantic Chronology - Has information on events & topics (Anglo-Jewish history, etc.), links (authors, etexts, images, articles, primary material, syllabi, etc.).



• Search Engine Guide - Has links to over 3,200 tools (search engines, subject directories, databases [company, education, government, health & medicine, law, science, etc.]), news back to 1999, a vendor directory, etc., Web search.



• SederOlam.com - Can search Israeli synogogues, Kosher restaurants, consulates, etc. Has Shabbat times in over 600 cities worldwide.



• Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database (SAHD) - Focus is the language of all texts in Ancient Hebrew (Hebrew Bible, Ancient Hebrew inscriptions, Hebrew text of Ben Sira, Hebrew Qumran texts).



• Service/Song Archive - Has over 140 songs & prayers, with Hebrew transliteration & translation.



• Shamash - Can create a list, subscribe to 500. Has software/graphics, Jewish & Israeli news, a books of the month archive, Kosher Restaurant Database, Israel pages, Shamash Tanach directory, etc., a site search.



• Shema Yisrael Torah Network, The - Can link to yeshivot & Torah organizations worldwide. Has links, Torah lessons, audio, video, the Virtual Geula (links & information on authors, publishers, distributors of Jewish books & Judaica, tape libraries, software, etc.).



• Shireshet: Hebrew Poetry and Poets - Has information & links to works by & about 27 modern poets. Requires Hebrew fonts.



• ShulMusic.org - Has over 2,000 pages of scanned music, over 30 links.



• Southwest Jewish Archives, The - Has historical information on communities, synagogues, religious objects, notable figures in AZ, NM, west TX.



• Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust, A - Has an overview (timeline, people, the arts), resources, activities (photos, documents, art, music, movies, literature). Includes teacher resources & student activities.



• Ten Sefirot of the Kabbalah, The - Includes translations, descriptions, human imagery, symbols & images, etc.



• Torah Tape Library of Rabbi Yissocher Frand - Can browse a list of 15 years of weekly shiurim & view Parsha perceptions, Halacha & Hashkafa tapes, theme sets.



• Torah.Net - Has HaRav, Parsha, news, links (supersites, online study, communities & institutions, reference, forums), a calendar for 21 cities worldwide, etc.



• torah.org - Has 3 levels of classes (Torah, Jewish law, ethics, etc.); historical etexts (Halacha-Yomi, Rambam, Shulchan Aruch, etc.); a site search. Can ask questions, browse a knowledge base.



• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Has information for students (articles, etc.), teachers (guide, etc.), etc.; research on family history (25 bibliographies, links in 20 categories, etc.), a survivors registry, Holocaust Encyclopedia, site search.



• Virtual Jerusalem - Has channels (food, Judaism, travel, etc.), community, resources (Jewish holidays, keys to Judaism, a virtual museum , portion of the seek, recipe archive, etc.), etc., a site search. Can Ask the Rabbi.



• Voices of the Holocaust - A British Library Web site. Has 70 transcripts with notes, profiles, summaries, text, audio, maps, etc., a site search.



• www.shiur.net - Can search, browse over 700 MP3 & RealAudio shiurim (Halacha, Parsha, Yom Tov, etc.). Has an enewsletter, links.



• Yad Vashem - Has Holocaust information (FAQs, chronology, bibliography, 200 documents, etc), exhibitions, downloadable teaching resources, etc., a site search.