Jewish Studies Research Guide

The oldest organization of Judaic scholars in North America.

From the Jacob Rader Marcus Center

Archives over a million documents, hundreds of movies and radio shows, and excerpts from oral histories relating to the past century of American Jewish history.

Seeks to promote, maintain, and improve teaching, research, and related endeavors in Jewish Studies in colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning

Open access to a library of over 16,000 policy-relevant documents from leading authors, journals, and organizations.

Guide to the Beth Israel Congregation Records & Judaic Studies Collection in SUNY Plattsburgh's Special Collections

Contents include the archives of the Center for Jewish History and its five partner organizations, the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

An interactive database combining family pictures with the stories behind them

From the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations

An interactive, visualization of all the links between Tanakh and Talmud

From the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

From Fordham University

The only English-language journal devoted exclusively to the publishing of Jewish fiction

Provides access to documents within the Medici Archive Project database about the migration of Jews within Europe

From The British Library. Personal accounts of the Holocaust from Jewish survivors from across Europe now living in Britain, browsable by name and country.

From the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE)

News archive spanning 1923-2008, providing over 250,000 articles about modern Jewish history, as seen through the eyes of journalists.

A digital archive of artifacts that document the rich heritage of German-speaking Jewry in the modern era. Provides instant access to materials ranging from rare 16th century renaissance books to memoirs that document the experience of German-Jewish émigrés across the world in the 20th century.

From the Simon Wiesenthal Center

Provides links to Holocaust sites and documents. Also acts as a watchdog for Holocaust deniers and anti-Semitic Web sites. Note: It has been criticized for giving attention to these materials.

Collection of short clips of oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors. 12 full-length interviews are available online.

From the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

A repository of TED-like talks related to a wide variety of Judaic Studies topics

Audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Holocaust survivors conducted by Dr. David Boder in 1946. English translation provided for all non-English transcripts.

From Yad Vashem

Large collection of documents, testimonies, artifacts, and photographs relating to many aspects of Holocaust history. NOTE: This site must be viewed with Internet Explorer in order to gain full search functionality.

Yiddish radio in the 1930s to '50s