Books
Books relating to topics in Judaic studies are listed in uclid http://www.libraries.uc.edu/, the library’s online catalog, and in OhioLINK http://www.ohiolink.edu/, the combined online catalogs of Ohio’s academic libraries.
The Klau Library http://www.huc.edu/libraries/cincy/ collects and preserves “…the record of Jewish thought and experience throughout the ages and to related fields and disciplines.”
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/intro.html “…is committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry.”
The Klau Library and The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives are situated in the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion located at 3101 Clifton Avenue.
The Frances-Henry Library at the HUC-JIR Los Angeles campus provides a set of links to online catalogs of special interest to Judaic studies: http://www.huc.edu/libraries/losangeles/links_cat.htm
Online Documents
“Rodkinsons' ten-book edition, the only extensive one currently in the public domain, contains complete translations of the 'Festivals' and 'Jurisprudence' sections of the Talmud. Rodkinson only finished about a third of the Talmud. All ten volumes were prepared at Sacred-texts and are available here in their entirety.”
“Centropa is the signature project of the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation, a US-based non-profit corporation (Federal Tax ID 58-1970-134) with its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
We are an international team of historians, filmmakers, web designers, journalists, educators, photographers and Jewish community activists. Our goal is to create a window into Jewish history, and current events, in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.” See especially its Witness to a Jewish Century searchable online family photographs.
This site mounts thousands of digitized books and journals published in the United States in the Hebrew Language.
“Over 900 songs transliterated and translated by contributors worldwide
Documents selected and mounted by Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
This is an online exhibit of illuminated haggadot in the collections of the Klau Library, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati.
“The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.” Edited by Paul Halsall.
“The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit the rich legacy of Jewish women and their contributions to our families and communities, to our people and our world.”
“The ketubbot digitization project aims to create a worldwide registry of ketubbot in public and private collections throughout the world. Based on the collection of the Jewish National and University Library with over 1200 items, the project contains ketubbot originating from dozens of different countries, and covering a time period of over 900 years.”
Taken from the Hebrew word that means “we will remember,” the Nizkor Project mounts Holocaust educational materials and documents on the web under the supervision of Ken McVey. The site has been experiencing down time.
Documents selected and mounted as part of The Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
This archive is the largest repository of Jewish documentary films in the world, some of which may be viewed online.
“All that survives from the "golden age" of Yiddish radio in the 1930s to '50s are a thousand fragile discs, rescued from storerooms, attics, and even dumpsters. But what a story they tell! The Yiddish Radio Project is a celebration of these recordings and of the forgotten geniuses and dreamers who created them. The exhibits on this site feature the Yiddish Radio Project radio documentaries that were first broadcast on NPR's "All Things Considered," rare Yiddish radio clips, archival photographs, and various ephemera from a forgotten radio universe.”
Microfiche collected before 1986 are separately cataloged in uclid. This collection of oral history interviews with 20th century figures of national importance includes the memoirs of Walter Lippmann (Microfiche 302)
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