Research Guides: Hebrew and Judaic Studies: Digital Collection Gateways: a Selection

Open Access

Judaica Europeana
The Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society
Portal to: Cairo Geniza; Nahum Collection of Yemenite Manuscripts; The Judeo-Arabic Corpus; The Sussmann Thesaurus of Talmudic Manuscripts; The Judeo-Arabic Bibliography
Historical Jewish Press
Digital Collections @ The National Library of Israel
Digital Judaica Collections, University of Frankfurt a. Main
Includes: Compact Memory of Jewish periodicals; the Aron Freimann collection, manuscripts, etc.
Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen Sprachraum
The focus is on periodicals from the German Enlightenment period
Science of Judaism
A. Freimann collection of Wissenschaft des Judentums titles.
Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Berman Jewish DataBank
Jewish Survey Question Bank
Hebrew Books Dot Org
Sefaria
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"We are building a free living library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation. Our scope is Torah in the broadest sense, from Tanakh to Talmud to Zohar to modern texts and all the volumes of commentary in between. Sefaria is created, edited, and annotated by an open community."
Project Ben Yehuda
Project Ben Yehuda aims to digitize the classics of Hebrew literature that are in the public domain.

via NYU Libraries

Responsa Project Online
The Talmud Text Databank
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Includes the full text of all manuscript versions and first-printed editions of the Babylonian Talmud, with sophisticated search capabilities. The computerized database provides scholars with the means to analyze the literary and stylistic features throughout the breadth and depth of the entire Talmud in its many versions. Thousands of high-resolution images of the manuscript fragments are provided to aid in in-depth study, including images of hundreds of ancient Mishnah fragments.
Index of References dealing with Talmudic Literature
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"The Index, developed by the Saul Lieberman Institute of Talmudic Research at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, includes the Mishna, Tosefta, Jerusalem Talmud and the Babylonian Talmud. A search for a specific page within the Babylonian Talmud, for example, will yield a list of references to other works in which the Talmudic text is discussed. The Index refers to more than 1000 books from the Geonic period to modern times, covering both modern critical scholarship and traditional works.

A new, exciting feature made possible in the Internet version of the database is direct linking to the text of some of the indexed books, which are available online at Hebrewbooks.org."
(Yeshiva U. Library Blog, July 11, 2013)
Textual History of the Bible Edited by: Armin Lange (General Editor), Emanuel Tov, Matthias Henze, Russell E. Fuller, Hanna Tervanotko and Sidnie White-Crawford The Textual History of the Bible Online (THBO) is unique in providing, for the first time, a cross-searchable platform with all available information regarding the textual history, textual character, translation techniques, manuscripts, and the importance of each textual witness for each book of the Hebrew Bible, including its deutero-canonical scriptures. In addition, it includes articles on the history of research, the editorial histories of the Hebrew Bible, as well as other aspects of text-critical research and its auxiliary fields, such as papyrology, codicology, and linguistics.
Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Biblical Texts
Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Non-Biblical Texts
Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954
"The material is based on a rich variety of original manuscript collections from the unique holdings of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York; we provide access to six major organisational collections and twenty-four collections of personal papers; all of which have been digitized in their entirety."
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Philip Cowen Papers
Bernard C. Ehrenreich Papers
Bernhard Felsenthal Papers
Franks Family Papers
Gomez Family Papers
Gratz Family Papers
Myer S. Isaacs Collection
Philip Jacobs Collection
Solomon Robert Kagan Papers
Marion E. Kenworthy Papers
Emma Lazarus Collection
Isaac Leeser Collection
Levy Family (New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore) Papers
Jefferson Monroe Levy Collection
Jonas Phillips Levy Papers
Uriah P. Levy Collection
Louis Marshall Papers
Moses Family (of New York City) Papers
Moss Family of Philadelphia Papers
Nones Family Papers
Haym Salomon Collection
Seixas Family Papers

Kotar Library This link opens in a new window
The Kotar Library provides access to reference books, encyclopedias, journals, etc., published over the past half century in Hebrew and English.

Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive
Testaments to the Holocaust
From the archives of the Wiener Library, London