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This section contains links to historical and secondary open access e-text collections.
SEE ALSO: Sacred Texts and Images (illuminated manuscripts and papyri)
Judaism - Digital Text Collections
- Berman Jewish Policy Archives - major collection of over 20,000 documents on issues including, culture, education, health, aliyah, ethics, peace, prejudice, population studies. See also Reader's Guides
- Brown Judaic Studies - 50 texts are being made available open-access
- Cairo Genizah
- Cairo Genizah (Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection and the Jacques Mosseri Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library ) - over 12,000 manuscripts including letters, legal deeds, liturgical texts rescued from the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo provide a wealth of information on Jewish life in the Mediterranean.
- Cairo Genizah - Princeton Genizah Project site
- Cairo Genizah - Penn/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project - "a collaborative effort to reunite the contents of the Cairo Genizah in a single online presentation"
- Canadian Institute for Jewish Research Databank - primarily index to newspaper articles - provides fulltext of the newspaper article - in advanced search can limit to specific publication and to author and date.
- Center for Jewish-Christian Learning - "The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning is devoted to the multifaceted development and implementation of new relationships between Christians and Jews that are based not merely on toleration but on full respect and mutual enrichment" - includes article archive and collection of official documents arranged by denomination
- ClassicsIndex - Collection of texts on early Judaism and Christianity
- Digitized Book Repository (The National Library of Israel) - over 20,000 Hebrew Books. Focus is on rare and out-of-print material
- Hebrew Books - over 52,000 Hebrew books, includes some English language material
- Hebrew Incunabula and Manuscripts from the Goethe Universitat Frankfurt am Main - nearly 400 manuscripts and 66 inunabula
- The International Collection of Digital Hebrew Manuscripts
- Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs - publications on Israeli Security, Regional diplomacy and international law
- Jewish Documents & Statements - Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations - short list of selected documents
- Jewish-Christian Relations: Insights and Issues in the ongoing Jewish-Christian Dialogue
- Jewish Heritage from Europeana - images, blogs and digital books
- Jewish Theological Seminary Library Digital Collections - includes pamphlets (includes Judaica Americana - pamphlets published 1725-1900), theses, manuscripts, poetry, postcards, liturgy, music. Note change "Search Scope" to Digital Collections
- Jewish Women's Archives - includes a number of full-text resources
- Jews of Islamic Countries Archiving Project - Tel Aviv University - digital scanning and cataloguing of relevant documentary material - in Hebrew, need to search in Hebrew
- jpr/Institute for Jewish Policy Research
- Rabat Genizah Project - approximately 2 thousand works from the Jewish community of 20th century Morocco including Torah scrolls, prayer manuals, rabbinic commentaries as well as community records and photographs from the collection housed at the Casablanca Jewish Museum in Morocco
- Sefaria Library of Texts
- Seforim Online - mostly Hebrew texts
- Sephardic Studies Digital Collection (Washington University Libraries) - "includes key books, archival documents, and audio recordings that illuminate the history, culture, literature, politics, customs, music, and cuisine of Sephardic Jews all expressed in their own language, Ladino."
- The Sephardi Studies Project - includes Paraliturgical texts, Poems and Ladino Religious Literature including works such as Kanunname de Penas, Traduksyon LIvre de la Poezias de Rosh ha-Shana i Kippur, From Ottoman Turkish to Ladino and Risale
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Digital Archives
- Wissenschaft des Judentums - The Freimann Collection of the Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt am Main contains over 9,000 works on the Science of Judaism.
- Yad Vashem Documents Archive
- Yiddish Book Center - Digital Yiddish Library - over 11,000 books
- Yiddish Books from the National Digital Library of Poland - over 200 Yiddish books as well as some newspapers and pamphlets
- Yiddish Literature - almost 800 Yiddish Books published between 16th century and the beginnings of the 20th from the collections of the Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt am Main
- Yizkor Books Online (New York Public Library) - see also JewishGen Yizkor Book Project for translations
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