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Abzu: Guide to networked open-access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the ancient Mediterranean world
Academic Guide to Jewish History: Print and online resources in all areas of Jewish History
Aleppo Codex: The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible
All About Jewish Theatre: Platform for Jewish and Israeli theater and performing-arts practitioners
*ATLA/ATLAS Religion Database: Biblical studies and world religions; citations and partial/full text in journals (1949-present)
Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education
*Bar Ilan Responsa Project: Searchable texts of Hebrew Bible, commentaries, other Rabbinic works
Berman Jewish Policy Archive: Open access to a growing library of 4000+ policy-relevant documents from leading authors, journals, and organizations
Bibliography of Antisemitism-SICSA: Comprehensive bibliography on the subject of anti-Semitism
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (Mifal Ha-Bibliografiyah): Hebrew books printed 1473–1960, with biographies of authors
Biblos: Concordances, lexicons, timelines, and other tools for Bible study
Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York
Calendar Converter: Monthly Jewish calendar and ability to convert dates between Jewish and Gregorian calendars (English/Russian)
Cantors.org: Conservative Movement's professional association of hazzanim
Center for Jewish History: Combined collections 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
Central Zionist Archives: Official archives of the Zionist movement (English/Hebrew)
Chazzanut Online: Cantorial scores, MIDI sound, biographies, background articles; emphasis on Dutch hazzanut
Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education
Compact Memory: Prewar Jewish periodicals published in Germany
Custom Newspapers: Full text articles from a selection of newspapers
Daat: Daat Center for Jewish studies and humanities
Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive: Includes all types of music, in eight languages
Database of Prayer in Rabbinic Literature: Database enabling retrieval of sources according to liturgical categories and settings, historical strata of rabbinic literature, specific book(s) or person(s) named in a tradition, subject categories, etc.
Digitized Ladino Library: Ladino books and select manuscripts
Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History: Links to various Jewish history categories; includes primary sources, index by time period, type of resource, relation to the academic world
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology: Indiana University's Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
Early Christian Writings: Information and translations for the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, etc.
Early Church Fathers: Early Chuch Fathers series
Early Hebrew Newspapers: Hebrew newspapers from 1850 to the early twentieth century from the Jewish National Library
Early Jewish Writings: Texts of Bible, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, etc.
E-daf: Babylonian Talmud online
Emanuel Tov's Electronic Resources Relevant to the Textual Criticism of Hebrew Scripture
*Encyclopaedia Judaica: Second edition (2007 update of original 1971 edition)
ERIC: Education Resources Information Center: Citations, abstracts, or full text of journal articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, and policy papers on education (1960–Present)
E-sword Bibles: Various downloadable Bibles
ETANA Core Texts: Texts in Ancient Near Eastern Archives
European Association for Jewish Studies: Directory of Jewish Studies in Europe
Exilpresse digital. Deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933–1945 (German Press in Exile): Scholarly articles in Jewish Studies, plus index to other subjects
Freedman Jewish Sound Archive Catalog: Outstanding catalog of Yiddish music; searchable by composer, author, title, first line, subject, genre, and style
Hadashot Arkiologiyot: Reports in Hebrew on archaeological surveys done in Israel
Hava Nashira: Resources for song leaders, including lists of recordings and songbooks
Hebrew and Yiddish Song Indexes (Hebrew University Library's Catalog): Premiere resource for locating scores of songs in collections. At "Select Database" choose "Music" for Hebrew or Yiddish songs index
HebrewBooks.org: Classic Hebrew books for free download; searchable by subject
Historical Jewish Press: Full text of selected Jewish newspapers published in the Yeshuv, Europe, Arab lands, and Israel from mid-1800s to late 1900s. Articles are in Hebrew, English, French, and Judeo-Arabic
Holocaust Encyclopedia: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Index to Hebrew Israeli Newspapers: Computerized key of the daily press (edited directory Euro Zion–Beit Ariela), beginning in May 1933
The Internet Archive: Free digital library with search by subject, media type, etc.
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook: Jewish historical texts from Biblical times to the modern State of Israel; directory of additional Jewish history links
Internet Sacred Text Archive—Judaism: Includes both early and later texts of Jewish interest
Jewish Education Service of North America
Jewish Encyclopedia: Unedited contents of the encyclopedia originally published in New York, 1901–1906
Jewish Language Research: Information on Jewish languages and linguistics
Jewish Link: Jewish genealogy links
Jewish Music Research Center: Thesaurus of Jewish Music: Major database documenting oral and written musical traditions of global Jewish communities
Jewish Music WebCenter: Includes guide to "Starting Research in Jewish Music Research," and more
The Jewish National and University Library
Jewish Virtual Library: Most comprehensive online Jewish encyclopedia, covering everything from anti-Semitism to Zionism
Jewish Women: A comprehensive historical encyclopedia; biographies, thematic essays, photographs, and illustrations on a wide range of Jewish women through the centuries
JNUL Rare Books Online: Digital selection of rare books from the Jewish National and University Library ranging from fifteenth-century incunabula to early twentieth-century works
*Journal Locator (EBSCO A–Z): Access to full-text periodicals by title, subject
JTS Music Archives: Collections of cantors, composers, musicologists, teachers, and collectors of Jewish music from The Jewish Theological Seminary
Judaica Sound Archives: Massive catalog and selected audio of Jewish music; emphasis on pre-1950 Yiddish and US recordings
Keynote: Jewish Music Database: Produced by the Jewish Music Institute at the University of London; database of recorded and notated music
Kiryat Sefer: National bibliography of the State of Israel, beginning 1993 (See JNUL Library for earlier data)
The Koran: English (searchable)
Leviticus Rabbah: Synoptic edition, provided by Bar Ilan University
*Lookstein Center for Jewish Education
*Maagarim: The Hebrew Language Historical Dictionary
Maagar Sifrut ha-Kodesh: Bible and Rabbinic texts
Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education
Mechon Mamre: Hebrew and English texts for the study of Bible and Rabbinics
Medieval Hebrew Poetry: Hebrew poetry composed primarily from the fourth to the eighteenth centuries
Mekhilta de-Rabbi Yishmael: Transcription of various MSS, provided by Bar Ilan University
Melton Centre for Jewish Education (Hebrew University)
Melton Research Center: Standards and Benchmarks (The Jewish Theological Seminary)
Mendele: Forum for Yiddish language and literature and links to other Yiddish websites
Milken Archive of American Jewish Music: Aims to record, preserve, and distribute a vast cross-section of outstanding pieces of American Jewish music from the past 350 years
Morfix: Free Hebrew/English, English/Hebrew dictionary
Munich Talmud MS: Facsimile of the Munich MS of the Babylonian Talmud
National Center for Jewish Film: Motion picture archive, distributor, and resource center housing the largest, most comprehensive collection of Jewish-themed film and video in the world
National Sound Archives: Hebrew University Library digitized audio of music from Israel and Jewish communities worldwide
National Newspaper Index: Citations of Articles in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor from 1980 to the present
*NetLibrary: E-books in Jewish studies, 1996–2001
NETS: New English translation of the Septuagint
New York State Newspapers: Fifteen papers, including the New York Times and the New York Post
Nivonkhon Ivri: List of Hebrew idioms with explanations
Nizkor: Site intended for educational purposes to teach about the Holocaust and to combat hatred
Online Books Page: Bible: Books about the Bible, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library
Online Critical Pseudepigrapha: Critical texts of the Old Testament, Pseudepigrapha, and related literature
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: Various resources, including catalog of collection and new acquisitions list
Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature: Various resources, including bibliography of articles on the Dead Sea Scrolls
Otsar Kitve Yad Talmudiyim: Facsimilies of MSS of Mishnah, Tosefta, and Babylonian Talmud, provided by JNUL
Oxford English Dictionary: Authoritative historical dictionary, including quotations illustrating usage
Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education
Penn/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project: Searchable database of genizah fragments
Pirke Rabi Eliezer: The Pirke Rabi Eliezer electronic text editing project
Piyut Archive: Archive of piyyutim and melodies
Princeton Bibles: The Bible in various languages
Project Ben Yehuda: Classics of Hebrew literature: poetry and prose, essays, and more in Hebrew
*ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Dissertations in the humanities and social sciences: full text since late 1990s; citations only for earlier dissertations
ProQuest Newspapers: Six major US papers and forty-seven major international papers, including the Jerusalem Post (1988–present)
RaMBaM: MSS and early Printings: Digital copies of Maimonides manuscripts and early printed editions from the JNUL collection
Rashi [Solomon ben Isaac, 1041–1105] on Humash and the entire Bible
*Rav Milim: Hebrew-English/English-Hebrew dictionary
RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network
Religion Compass: Peer-reviewed surveys of the most important research and current thinking from across the entire discipline
Seforim Online: Old seforim of Rishonim and Acharonim
Shulhan Arukh: English summary of certain parts of Shulhan Arukh
ShulMusic.org: Scores of liturgical music and MIDI sound
Solomon Schechter Day School Association
Sosland Online Resource Center (Part of JESNA)
*Sources for the History of Jewish Education (JEDU) (Also available on CD-ROM 92)
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive: Full-length films on Jewish topics divided into categories, including Jewish communities, the Holocaust, and the State of Israel
Tara: Jewish Music Publisher
Targum of Shir ha-Shirim (English)
Tosefta-Textual Witnesses: Primary textual witnesses to Tannaitic literature (Bar Ilan University)
Transcontinental Music: Jewish music publisher
Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies: Full-text searchable dictionaries, including Jastrow, Coptic, and Syriac dictionaries, and an Arabic Lexicon
United States Holocaust Museum: Registry of Jewish Holocaust survivors with search capabilities
United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism
VirtualCantor: Digital recordings of daily, Shabbat, and holiday nusah
Yad Vashem: World center for documentation, research, education, and commemoration of the Holocaust
Yiddish Book Center: Free access to the full texts of out-of-print Yiddish titles
Yiddish Prints: Eight hundred Yiddish books from Frankfurt University Library
Yizkor Books: Holocaust memorial books from the New York Public Library
Zam'ru: The Jewish choral music database. Includes list of recorded songs with ten types of indices
Zemerl: Interactive database of Jewish songs