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Judaism - Libraries and Archives
- American Jewish Historical Society links to research collections
- Canadian Jewish Heritage Network - combined index to the indexes and digitized material of the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives, the Jewish Public Library Archives of Montreal, the Montreal Holocaust Museum, the Ottawa Jewish Archives, the Saint John Jewish Historical Museum, the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives and the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Archives
- Online catalogs of libraries with significant Yiddish collections
- Libraries and Archives with Jewish Music Collections - from the Jewish Music WebCenter
- Merhav - searches all resources at the National Library of Israel including Israel Union Catalog, The Israel Union List of Serials and Qiryat Sefer (National Bibliography of Israel)
- Online Archive of California - includes the American Jewish University, University of California (extensive Judaica and Hebraica collection), Stanford, Tauber Holocaust Library, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
- Rachel: The on-line catalog of the European Network of Judaica and Hebraica Libraries (REBJH)
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives - extensive information on the holdings of the Archives including a searchable collections guide.
- American Jewish Archives
- American Jewish Historical Society - online index to library and archival collections including digital collections.
- American Jewish University Library (Ostrow Library and Burton Sperber Memorial Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles) - over 100,000 print volumes
- Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center - have over 1,000 photos and a film archive but online index of holdings is not available
- Baltimore Hebrew Institute Collection (Towson University) - indexes journal articles as well as books
- British Library Hebrew Manuscript Collection - selected images are available online - search "Hebrew"
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People - Now merged with the National Library of Israel - very extensive collection archival material from Jewish organizations and private individuals dating from Middle Ages to the present
- Center for Jewish History - combined index to the collections of the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
- Freedman Jewish Sound Archive (University of Pennsylvania Library) - index to Jewish songs by artist, title and Genre
- Genizah Research Unit in the Cambridge University Library
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem Catalog
- Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library (Penn Libraries)
- Israel Antiquities Authority Library - leading library for archaeology in Israel - very strong collection to support Jewish studies and biblical studies. Also includes references to journal articles
- Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica (University of Florida) - over 110,000 volumes and over 180,000 digitized pagers
- JDC Archives (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee)
- Jewish Braille Institute Library
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Jewish Theological Seminary Library (over 400,000 volumes) - Limit to Digital Collections for open access material - Listing of Collections including manuscripts, rare books, archives
- Judaica Collection Penn Libraries
- Klau Library, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Insitute of Religion
- National Center for Jewish Film - key word search, A-Z listing and option to browse by subject
- National Library of Israel (Hebrew University)- catalogue includes over 4,000 links to open access digitized Hebrew manuscripts. Site also includes the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and the Israeli National Bibliography (Qiryat Sefer)
- New York Public Library - major resource for study of Judaism - Dorot Jewish Division has a number of Research Guides
- Reconstructionist Rabbinical College - includes the Mordecai M. Kaplan Library and the Ira and Judith Kaplan Eisenstein Reconstructionist Archives
- Royal Library, Copenhagen Catalogue search - In Advanced search can limit to Hebrew - information on Judaica collection
- Saul Silber Memorial Library, Hebrew Theological College - "one of the largest Judaica libraries in the Midwest"
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Library and Archives
- Southwest Jewish Archives - Covers West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California
- Sperber Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles
- Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership - Asher Library - over half a million items in the collection - search catalog . Note if you become a member of Spertus or join SpertusNet you get access to Feinberg E-collection
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive- Virtual Cinema - over 600 films are currently freely available
- Wiener Library - "one of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era"
- Yad Vashem Library - contains over 150,000 books, articles, videos (see Online Film Database) and other resources on the Holocaust from Yad Vashem including the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
- Yeshiva University Library -see also Archival Collection Finding Aids
- Yiddish Book Center - listing 1.4 million out-of-print Yiddish books. Can read 11,000 titles free of charge through Steven Spielberg Digital Library
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