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Electronic Resources at the Center

There are 8 state of the art public computers and 4 computer kiosks at the Center for Jewish History that offer access to more than 40 paid subscription databases, with many resources unique to the Center. Benefiting scholars of Jewish Studies as well as generalists, and genealogists the electronic resources are available onsite only in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room reference complex as well as in the Reading Room itself.

To help you begin your research prior to coming down to the Center, we have compiled a list of some free resources that may be of use.

Bibliographies at the Center for Jewish History

Holocaust Resources: An Annotated Bibliography of Archival Holdings at the Center for Jewish History

Made possible through the generous support of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc.

Women In Daily Life: An Online Bibliography

This selected bibliography of Center for Jewish History partner collections which highlight Women in Daily Life represents all of the areas in which Jewish women have played a major role including: domestic life, social life, and formal occupations. (Made possible by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.)

Free Resources

Academic Guide to Jewish History
A web site offered by the University of Toronto Libraries with a wide selection of valuable links to scholarly resources on the internet and in print.
AJHS Journal
ADAJE: American Digital Archive of the Jewish Experience is an electronic repository of digitized American Jewish periodicals. The first content available is the Society's journal, American Jewish History, for the years 1893-1978. The journal is fully (and freely) searchable as a ProQuest database.
All About Jewish Theater
This Website is dedicated to Jewish theatre and performing arts. It aims to promote, cultivate, and distribute the study of Jewish theatre and performing arts, to provide an interactive network for its audiences, and to encourage original Jewish theater.
American Jewish Archives
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry.
American Jewish Archives
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry.
American Jewish Committee Archives
The site includes an interactive archival timeline: historic films and TV shows, and broadcasts from the golden age of American radio. The oral history collection includes conversations with and about legendary Jewish athletes, comedians, Nobel Prize winning writers, and political leaders. Also included are all volumes of the American Jewish Year Book from 1899 to the present.
American Memory
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity.
ANNO – AustriaN Newspapers Online
The Austrian National Library offers historic newspaper-pages online. AustriaN Newspapers Online (ANNO) covers the period from 1716 until 1936. At the moment there are over 3.5 million pages of 70 different newspapers and journals available online.
Annotated Bibliography on Antisemitism
The Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism includes works published throughout the world about anti-Semitism – books, dissertations, master's theses, and articles from periodicals and collections (presently about 40,000 items). In addition, there is a database on "The Jewish Question in German-Speaking Countries, 1848-1914" of ca. 4,500 references.
Arcade
Arcade database includes more than 800,000 records that range from ancient Egypt to contemporary art, including exhibition and auction sale catalogs, monographs, periodicals, rare books, photographs, and archival materials.
Association for Jewish Libraries
The Association of Jewish Libraries promotes Jewish literacy through enhancement of libraries and library resources, and through leadership for the profession and practitioners of Judaica librarianship.
Aufbau Indexing Project
The Aufbau Indexing Project includes a database which contains about 47,600 names that appeared in Aufbau between 1941 and 2003. It also includes useful links to Aufbau Online (vital records) & the German National Library (Aufbau’s digitized issues).
Austria Genealogy Links
Austria Genealogy Links, a web page on Genealogylinks.net, links to various Austrian resources including cemeteries, marriage records, military records, passenger lists, and telephone directories.
Austrian Historical Bibliography (ÖHB)
A comprehensive bibliography of Austrian historical research publications (published 1945 ff).
Austrian Victims of the Holocaust
The database contains information concerning the fates of more than 62,000 Austrian Jews who were killed in the Holocaust.

Avotaynu: Consolidated Jewish Surname Index
The Consolidated Jewish Surname Index (CJSI) is a gateway to information on more than 500,000 different surnames, mostly Jewish, that appear in 34 different databases.
Bartleby.com
A quick and reliable reference from a wide variety of sources provided via the web.
Ben Yehuda Project
Project Ben Yehuda aims to put on line works of Hebrew literature which are out of copyright, or which the living authors approved for posting. (In Hebrew.)
Berlin Directory for the years 1799 to 1943 (Berliner Adressbücher)
The Berlin Directory provides information about residents, businesses, associations, societies, places of interest, public authorities, business advertisements, and real estate offers in the city of Berlin – listed alphabetically by both name and street. (In German)
Bible Dictionary
A captivating glossary of Biblical names and characters with descriptions and explanations.
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, 1473-1960
A comprehensive bibliography of all books printed in the Hebrew Language between 1473 and 1960, with over 100,000 titles and 12,000 authors.
Birth & Marriage Record Indexes Online
A genealogy guide for finding vital records.
Book History Online
BHO is a database in English on the history of the printed book and libraries. It contains over 31,000 titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide.
British Newspapers 1800-1900
The British Library’s 19th Century British Library Newspaper website. The site contains millions of articles from 49 London, national and regional newspaper titles (1800 - 1900), and thousands of illustrations, maps, tables, and photographs.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper is being digitized by the Brooklyn Public Library. The first part is available online and covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication.
CastleGarden.org
CastleGarden.org offers free access to a database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened.
Cemetery Scribes
The database includes headstone inscriptions from Jewish cemeteries throughout the UK. Also included are records from various sources such as census returns, wills, birth and marriage registers, and many more.
Center for Jewish Art
The Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem is dedicated to the preservation of the Jewish artistic heritage. Its activities include documentation, research, education, and publishing.
Center for Research Libraries
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem
Established formally in 1969, the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) was founded in 1938 as the Jewish Historical General Archives. Its aim is the reconstruction of an unbroken chain of historical documentation, reflecting the collective past of the Jewish people.

Central Zionist Archives
The Central Zionist Archives in Israel has an online catalog of their holdings, which includes various materials: files, maps, photographs, books, newspapers and periodicals, audios, and microfilms. CZA Website includes Family Research information which will be in the interest of any genealogist.
Centropa.org
Centropa.org is a Vienna and Budapest-based non-profit organization, which aims to preserve Jewish memory in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and the Baltics. Centropa includes an interactive database of Jewish memory: Jewish Witness to a European Century which will be of interest of any family researcher.
Chabad Library
The Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad Ohel Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch is one of the most distinguished Judaic libraries, and contains approximately 250,000 books, mostly aged and rare. There are around 200,000 books in Hebrew and Yiddish, with the remaining 50,000 books in a variety of other languages.
Children in the Ghetto
Children in the Ghetto portrays life during the Holocaust from the viewpoint of children who lived in the ghetto, while attempting to make the complex experience of life in the ghetto as accessible as possible to today’s children.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Compact Memory – Jüdische Periodika im deutschsprachigen Raum
Online archives of digitized and fully searchable German Jewish periodicals from 1806 to 1938. There are well over 100 journals, yearbooks, reports, etc. from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
Czernowitz-L Discussion Group Website
The purpose of the site is to provide a collection point for materials (stories, histories, photographs, lists, maps, links, etc.) that are of interest to list members and other researchers concerned with genealogy and the history of the Jewish community in the Czernowitz - Sadagora area.
Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume
This database brings together for the first time in searchable illustrated form the remaining registration cards and photographs produced by the ERR covering more than 20,000 art objects taken from Jews in German-occupied France and in Belgium.
Death Indexes & Records Online
This website is a directory of online death indexes listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery & burial records. Also included is information about searching the Social Security Death Index online.
Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
The Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands is an Internet monument dedicated to preserving the memory of all the men, women, and children who were persecuted as Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and did not survive the Shoah.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is a database for free, web-based, peer-reviewed journals in a wide array of subjects. Journals include among others: "Women in Judaism: A multidisciplinary journal", the "Journal of Hebrew Scriptures", and "Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal."
Early Hebrew Newspapers
European History Primary Sources (EHPS) is an index of scholarly websites that offer online access to primary sources on the history of Europe.
Emigration & Immigration Records & Links
The database includes Passenger Lists and Naturalization Records.
Eretz Israel Records Indexing (EIRI)
EIRI has more than 100,000 records and around 20,000 different surnames of individuals. The IGS has continued to search for documents to enlarge this database that will cover the period of the resettlement of Eretz Israel. The indexes that are included cover the Ottoman Empire Period, World War I, the British Mandate Period, and the State of Israel.
European History Primary Sources
European History Primary Sources (EHPS) is an index of scholarly websites that offer online access to primary sources on the history of Europe. It is a joint initiative of the Library and the Department of History and Civilisation of the European University Institute. It is also part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library - History that is hosted at the EUI. You can search for primary resources by the following categories: country, language, period, subject, type of source, combined category, and free text.

Fold3.com
Fold3.com formely Footnote.com is a valuable resource to genealogists and family historians. It includes millions of digitized historical documents from various resources such as U.S. National Archives and the Library of Congress. Some of the digitized collections are freely accessed. Please note that the Center for Jewish History does not hold a membership to Footnote.
Genealogy Indexer
Genealogy Indexer was created in August 2008 by the genealogist Logan Kleinwaks. It includes historical directories, Yizkor Books, military collections, and geographic dictionaries.
Genealogy Indexer
Genealogy Indexer was created in August 2008 by the genealogist Logan Kleinwaks. It includes historical directories, Yizkor Books, military collections, and geographic dictionaries.
HebrewBooks.org
Scanned “Seforim” (Rabbinic books in Hebrew) and selected issues of Hebrew journals published in America throughout the 20th century.
Hessen Regional History Information System (LAGIS)
Hessen Regional History Information System (LAGIS) Website links to various sources and topics pertaining to Hesse (Hessen), Germany, such as maps, historical gazetteers, and Jewish cemeteries.
Holocaust Resources: An Annotated bibliography of archival holdings at the Center for Jewish History
The bibliography is a compilation of materials drawn from the partner organizations of the Center for Jewish History (CJH): the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the American Sephardi Federation (ASF), the Leo Baeck Institute (LBI), the Yeshiva University Museum (YUM), and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO); the materials are accessible through the Lillian Goldman Reading Room (Reading Room). All archival collections containing any information on the Holocaust, catalogued as of May 2006, are included in the bibliography.
Holocaust Testimonies Online (the British Library)
These recordings are personal accounts of the Holocaust from Jewish survivors living in Britain. The interviews were selected from a much larger oral history project, the Living Memory of the Jewish Community, which recorded testimony between 1988-2000.
Index to Yiddish Periodicals
A work in progress of the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Index will eventually encompass the major Yiddish periodicals from the beginning of the modern Yiddish press up to the Holocaust. Here, the user can get a solid bibliographical picture of the journalistic and literary output of the major figures in Yiddish literature.
Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte
Comprehensive bibliography of German historical research publications (published 1986ff ) compiled by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Jewish Calendar Tools
Hebcal Jewish Calendar contains links to an interactive Jewish calendar, Hebrew date converter, and other useful links.
Jewish Cemetery Database Project Germany
A site with genealogical data and 60,000 photos of German-Jewish cemeteries. Please register with the site before accessing; registration is free of charge.
Jewish Genealogical Society
The JGS of New York, one of the largest Jewish genealogical societies, provides a database of Brooklyn naturalizations, a New York cemetery database, part of the New York City World War I Draft Board, and links to web pages of New York archival repositories.
Jewish Genealogical Society
The JGS of New York, one of the largest Jewish genealogical societies, provides a database of Brooklyn naturalizations, a New York cemetery database, part of the New York City World War I Draft Board, and links to web pages of New York archival repositories.
Jewish Traces Ordinary Exile
The site is geared toward people who have an interest in European History of the 30's and 40's. It provides a thorough outlook on exile, request for asylum, and the status of the Jewish refugees from the third Reich territory in France and Belgium.
JewishEncyclopedia.com
A Web site containing the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia which was originally published between 1901-1906 by the Funk & Wagnalls Company.

JewishGen
This non-profit site is the central location for Jewish genealogy on the Internet. It consists of a great number of Research tools and databases, like the JewishGen Family Finder; the Holocaust Database, the Family Tree of the Jewish People, Town Finder, and various databases pertaining to several countries in Eastern and Central Europe, as well as Great Britain, Israel, South Africa, and the United States.
JewishGen
This non-profit site is the central location for Jewish genealogy on the Internet. It consists of a great number of Research tools and databases, like the JewishGen Family Finder; the Holocaust Database, the Family Tree of the Jewish People, Town Finder, and various databases pertaining to several countries in Eastern and Central Europe, as well as Great Britain, Israel, South Africa, and the United States.
Judaica Sound Archives
Judaica Sounds Archives is available via Florida Atlantic University (FAU). It includes 78 rpm phongraph recordings, LP albums, cassette tapes, 8-track tapes, 45 rpm recordings, and CDs. The collection comprises cantorial and liturgical recordings, Yiddish-language, and Israeli and secular Hebrew music.
Juden im alten Halberstadt
German language website to commemorate the vanished Jewish community of Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt (central Germany).
Kalliope: Verbundkatalog Nachlaesse und Autographen
Kalliope is maintained at the Staatsbibliothek Berlin and continues Ludwig Denneke’s Die Nachlaesse in den Bibliotheken der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (archival collections in German libraries). The database contains more than 1 million autographs, more than 20,000 archival collections in more than 100 mainly libraries, archives, and museums in Germany.
Kodesh.Snunit (Biblical and Rabbinical Database)
Kodesh Snunit (from Snunit Project) is an inclusive database, which includes various resources such as the Bible, Mishnah, and Tosefta (supplement to the Mishnah). The database is exclusively in Hebrew.
Library of Congress Online Catalog
The Library of Congress is the Unites States' oldest federal cultural institution, and the largest library in the world. It includes millions of books, maps and manuscripts, photographs, and recordings in its collections.
Lost Art Internet Database
Lost Art Internet Database is a project of the Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste, Germany’s central office for the documentation of lost cultural property. It was set up jointly by the Government and the Länder of the Federal Republic of Germany, and registers cultural objects which as a result of persecution under the Nazi dictatorship and the Second World War were relocated, moved or seized, especially from Jewish owners.
Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index
The Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index references obituaries and death notices published in New Orleans newspapers from 1804-1972 and biographical information published in older Louisiana collective biographies.
MALMAD - Israel Union List
The Israel Union List (ULI) contains MARC21 format cataloging records from all the university libraries of Israel as well as the national library and many college and special libraries.
Memorial Book for the Victims of National-Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938
A project of the University of Vienna to commemorate the Jewish affiliates of the University who were dismissed, exiled, and disenfranchised. The database includes more than 2,700 names of students, lecturers, and administration employees.
Mémorial de la Shoah Musée, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
The Mémorial de la Shoah Musée, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Memorial to the Shoah Museum and Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) located in Paris is a website of interest to genealogists. It has a searchable database of Jews deported from France, Jews killed in France, persons executed or who died in the French internment camps, and Jewish resistance fighters who belonged to the network of the Jewish Combat Organization.
Mendele: Forum for Yiddish Literature and Yiddish Language
Mendele is a moderated mailing list dedicated to the lively exchange of views, information, and news related to the Yiddish language and Yiddish literature. In addition, it supports an ever-growing list of stories, poems, and essays that are available in Yiddish.
Museum of Family History
The Museum of Family History website is a virtual museum existing only in cyberspace. It offers many exhibitions as well as other resources of special interest to those who are interested in learning more about their own family history. The website includes Exhibitions, Holocaust Memorials, the Cemetery Project, Family History Theatre, the Yiddish World, Education and Research Center, and Postcards from Home.
Museum of the History of Polish Jews: Virtual Shtetl
The Virtual Shtetl is a museum without walls providing a social forum for all those interested in Polish Jewish Life. It depicts the history of Polish Jews, which in great part was created in towns (Yiddish: shtetl). On the website one can find information pertaining to the past and present little towns and large cities. The website presents both contemporary and also pre-war Poland.

NARA Online Immigration Indexes
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) online indexes to passenger arrivals during portions of the 19th century from Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Russia. Data about each immigrant includes name, age, and destination.
National Library of Israel
The National Library of Israel’s Web site. It includes an access to various catalogs, e-resources, Shapell Digitization Project, Ketubbot's Site Virtual Exhibition, the Early Hebrew Press Newspapers, and much more.
National Yiddish Book Center's Steven Spielberg Digital Library
The digital library includes full text Yiddish titles that are available free on the National Yiddish Book Center’s Steven Spielberg Digital Library website.
Oesterreichisches biographisches Lexikon, 1815-1950
A comprehensive biographical dictionary of persons who lived in Austria/ the Austro-Hungarian Empire or were associated with it and whose death dates are between 1815 and 1950. Access is limited to the name index only.
One Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse
A variety of valuable genealogical resources, including the Ellis Island database, Castle Gardens database, census, and other vital records.
Online Memorial book for Leipzig
Memorial Book of Leipzig listing all deaths at the hands of the National Socialists 1933-1945, which includes Jews as well as non-Jews.
POBEDITELI: Soldiers of the Great War
POBEDITELI lists names of over 1,000,000 surviving veterans of the Great Patriotic War.
RAMBI
Index of articles on Jewish Studies from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library.
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Library
Named after the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, the Mordecai M. Kaplan Library offers a collection of Judaica, Hebraica, and Reconstructionist movement publications.
Routes to Roots
This site includes a database of archival holdings of the archives in Belarus, Lithuania , Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine. Learn what archival sources are available for your ancestral town, and how to access them.
Sammlung Exil-Literatur und Deutsches Exilarchiv 1933 – 1945
A special collection of published and unpublished documentation of the German-speaking emigration of 1933-45 at the German National Library, which contains the resources of the Sammlung Exil-Literatur 1933-1945 der Deutschen Nationalbibliotek in Leipzig, and the Deutsche Exilarchiv 1933-45, Frankfurt am Main.
SephardicGen
SephardicGen is a comprehensive web site created by Jeff Malka. It includes many Sephardic genealogy resources, such as Sephardic names and a gazetteer of Sephardic communities. Also included are Sephardic family trees and Ladino resources.
South African Jewish Database
The South African Jewish Database includes information about cemeteries, congregations, naturalizations, passenger arrival lists, vital records, and more.
Synagogues – List of Ashkenazic Synagogues
Comprehensive list of the more than 3,000 synagogues in Germany and German-speaking countries until 1938 [information: address, number of Jews in the community, school, cemetery, mikveh, ritual slaughtering facilities, and the fate of the synagogue in 1938 (Kristallnacht).
Talmudic Manuscripts
The "Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts" is a project of the Israeli National Library, which brings together images of major Talmudic manuscripts from libraries throughout the world. The manuscripts are indexed to enable access by standard citation (tractate, daf, and amud for the Talmud Bavli, and tractate, chapter and mishna for the Mishna). As the manuscripts are entirely in Hebrew and Aramaic, the navigation tools of this site are in Hebrew.

Tel Aviv Burial Database
English Front-End for Tel Aviv Burial Database created by Stephen P. Morse. A transliteration tool for searching the deceased in Tel-Aviv cemeteries.
The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (The German National Library)
The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (The German National Library)Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin provides access to "Juedische Zeitschriften in NS-Deutschland" (Jewish Periodicals in National Socialist Germany) in PDF format.
Theresienstadt Memorialbuch
The database, which presently is available only in Czech, seeks to inform and educate the public regarding the Jewish as well as the Sinti and Roma experience during the Holocaust. At this time the database contains primarily documents relating to Theresienstadt (Terezin) as well as to the history of the Jewish communities in the Czech Republic. An important feature is the option to search the “Database of Victims” (Databaze Obeti). Search prompts include the name of the victim, last address before deportation, name of the transport to Terezin or other ghetto, the place and date of death. If available a photograph of the victim is included. Other searchable options include “Sources” (Zdroje) and “History” (Dejiny) of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust.
Twayne Authors Series
Provided by NOVELNY: New York Online Virtual Electronic Library. Contains the full text of the Twayne Literary Masters books.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
The USHMM website. It includes the library catalog, ITS (International Tracing Service), the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center, and much more.
United Nations Yearbook Online
The Yearbook is the flagship reference publication of the UN, and details the work and achievements of the organization over the course of each year. All 59 volumes that have been published, 1946-2005, are available to browse or search.
Vital statistics for the Jewish communities of Wuerttemberg, Baden and Hohenzollern (South-Western)
After a long history of attempts at preserving the microfilms that were originally produced in 1942, with the originals destroyed, the registers of Jewish vital records for the province of Baden-Wuerttemberg have now been digitized for use on the internet. The records that date back to the 19th century represent the most important genealogical resource for that time period.
Women In Daily Life: An Online Bibliography
This selected bibliography of the Center for Jewish History’s partner collections which highlight Women in Daily Life, represents all of the areas in which Jewish women have played a major role including: domestic life, social life, and formal occupations.
WorldCat (OCLC)
WorldCat.org allows you to search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.
Yad Vashem Library Catalog
Yad Vashem library aims to collect all material published about the Holocaust, making it available for the public. The collection contains materials in all languages.
Yad Vashem Shoah Victims' Names
Yad Vashem's central database of Shoah victims' names. The database can be searched in Hebrew, Russian, and English.
Yiddish Language Playscripts
The Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays at the Library of Congress includes more than 1,200 scripts, which were deposited by their authors or theatrical producers at the U.S. Copyright Office between 1909 and roughly 1950. 77 of these play scripts are digitized and accessible via “American Memory,” a website of the Library of Congress.
Yiddish Literature (National Digital Library of Poland)
Yiddish Literature is a project of the National Digital Library of Poland with the cooperation of Shalom Foundation. It includes selective Yiddish Literature written before World War II by poets, novelists, and playwrights, such as Mendele Mojcher Sforim, Salomon Ettinger, and others.
Yiddish Prints - Digitized Yiddish Books
The Collection "Yiddish Prints" contains about 800 Yiddish books from the Frankfurt University Library, ranging from the middle of the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The collection contains women's bibles in Yiddish translation, liturgy, practical guide books, works on religious customs, legends, chronicles and classical Jewish fiction of famous Eastern European Yiddish authors, comprising an impressive number of extremely rare books and several unique editions.
Yiddish Sources
Yiddish Sources aims to be a comprehensive source of information for those who are interested in using Yiddish materials in their research. The information is arranged in three main sections: reference, research, and events. A new addition is the Yiddish Studies Bibliography, an online bibliography which lists relevant scholarly literature in the field of Yiddish Studies.

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AJHS Journal
The content available is the Society's journal, American Jewish History, for the years 1893-1978. The journal is fully (and freely) searchable as a ProQuest database.
AKL Allgemeine Kuenstlerlexikon (International Database of Artists Online)
AKL Allgemeine Kuenstlerlexikon is an extensive database containing biographical information on more than 1 million artists. It is based on the Thieme-Becker/Vollmer encyclopedia, the Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon, and the Lexikon der Künstlerinnen.
America: History and Life
Bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 490,000 bibliographic entries for over 2,000 periodicals dating back to 1954.
American Book Prices Current (ABPC)
American Book Prices Current is an annual record of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps, and broadsides sold at auction. Countries covered include North America and the UK, with sales from such other countries as Switzerland, Germany, Monaco, Holland, and Australia.
American National Biography
The online edition of American National Biography profiles more than 18,700 men and women from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
Ancestry
Ancestry Library Edition is a comprehensive online resource for family history which includes many collections, such as the U.S. Immigration Collection, the U.S. Census Collection, and the Jewish Family History Collection. It is geared toward genealogists and family history researchers.
Archive Finder
Archive Finder (formerly Archives USA) provides address and collection information about nearly 4,500 US manuscript repositories. Besides full address information, including e-mail addresses and URL's, opening hours, and details of holdings and areas of special interest, it also includes records, complete with detailed indexes, of nearly 100,000 manuscript and other special collections.
ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid includes historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of the collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
Bar Ilan Responsa
The Global Jewish Database (the Responsa Project) contains the world's largest electronic collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew ever recorded, which embody thousands of years of Jewish learning. The database includes numerous works from the Responsa Literature.
Bibliographie zur deutsch-jüdischen Familienforschung und zur neueren Regional – und Lokalgeschichte
Bibliography on German-Jewish Family Research and on Recent Regional and Local History of the Jews is a comprehensive bibliography of over 32,000 published sources covering German-Jewish family research, and regional and local history in Germany within its historical borders from the beginning of Jewish Emancipation through the end of the Nazi Era. (CD-ROM).
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Searching Biography and Genealogy Master Index will enable you to determine which publication to consult for biographical information. BGMI indexes current, readily available reference sources (such as biographical dictionaries and who's who) as well as important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from all areas of the world.
Biography in Context (Gale)
An online biographical database which allows users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates, and places.
Brockhaus Enzyklopaedie
The Brockhaus Enzyklopaedie (online version) is a comprehensive and general reference resource. It provides easy access to the full text articles of the recently published 30-volume 21st edition and is updated at regular intervals.
CAMIO
OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, covering the complete range of expressive forms.
Cataloger's Desktop
The most widely used cataloging documentation resources in an integrated, online system. Includes the current version of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) and Describing Archives, a Content Standard (DACS).

Classification Web
The Library of Congress' Classification Web is a full-text, internet resource that contains the Library of Congress Classification Schedules and Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Clio-online
Clio-online is a central Internet gateway in the field of history, sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and maintained by a network of German research institutions and libraries.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World
An international geographic database of over 165,000 entries including place-names, physical characteristics, political properties, and natural and agricultural resources.
Commentary Magazine
Commentary is an American monthly magazine of opinion, and a voice in American intellectual life. It covers such issues as the future of Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture in Israel, the United States, and the world. The database includes the digital archives starting with the first issue in 1945 to the present.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Since the Encyclopædia Britannica's founding in 1768, Britannica editors have gathered and organized information on thousands of topics for easy retrieval.
Encyclopedia Judaica
Encyclopedia Judaica is provided by Gale Virtual Reference Library. It is the online version of the 2nd edition which includes 22 volumes.
Encyclopedia of Judaism, 2nd Edition
Encyclopedia of Judaism is provided by Gale Virtual Reference Library. It is the online version of the 2nd edition which includes 4 volumes.
Eretz Israel Records Indexing (EIRI)
EIRI has more than 100,000 records and around 20,000 different surnames of individuals. The IGS has continued to search for documents to enlarge this database that will cover the period of the resettlement of Eretz Israel. The indexes that are included cover the Ottoman Empire Period, World War I, the British Mandate Period, and the State of Israel.
FirstSearch (Base Package)
First Search includes various databases including ArticleFirst, ClassPeriodica, EBooks, ECO, Eric, GPO, MEDLINE, OAlster, PapersFirst, Proceedings, WorldAlmanac, WorldCat, and WorldCatDessertations.
HeritageQuest Online
ProQuest's Genealogy & Local History Collection of 25,000+ family and local history books, with every word searchable. Every page of each book is presented and can be easily downloaded or copied. These titles have been digitized from ProQuest's microfilm collection, and include genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials from all 50 states and Canada.
Historic Map Works Library Edition
Historic Map Works Library Edition is an extensive digital map collection with over 200,000 high-resolution, full color historic maps. The collection consists of property and land ownership maps illustrating the geographic and development history of the United States.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
Historical Abstracts is a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
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Index to Jewish Periodicals
Index to Jewish Periodicals is a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 220 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. It is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs.
Jewish Data
A compilation of Jewish Genealogy resources. It contains images of tombstones, school yearbook pages, and Citizen Declaration documents.

JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of important scholarly journals, providing access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
LISTA
LISTA, the Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, and more.
Marquis Who’s Who
Biographical resource which includes the following databases: Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in American History, Who’s Who in American Art, and Who’s Who in American Politics.
National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933-1945
National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933-1945 is a database and virtual archive that consists of primary source editions and previously unpublished materials all searchable in full text though K.G. Saur Publishers.
Obituaries (ProQuest)
The ProQuest Obituaries collection is a premier resource for genealogical and historical research. You can use the collection to search obituaries and death notices from prominent newspapers, such as The New York Times (dating back to 1851).
Oxford Art Online – Grove Art Online
Oxford Grove Online (Formerly Grove Art Online) provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art with quarterly additions of new material and updates.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford DNB is a biographical resource of people who shaped history from the 4th century BC to the 21st century.
Oxford Journals
Journals published by Oxford University Press. The Center for Jewish History holds subscriptions for two of its journals: Modern Judaism and Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online, unabridged, offers millions of words, phrases, and translations, in French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Included are usage examples and illustrative phrases, grammar guidance, verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, and help with spelling and punctuation.
Oxford Music Online – Grove Music Online
Formerly Grove Music Online offers a dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition with the added benefit of sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world.
Oxford Reference Online
The Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection combines quick reference coverage of the full subject spectrum found in the resources of the Oxford Companions, ranging from ready-reference to comprehensive scholarly articles.
Project Muse
Project MUSE was launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, to offer the full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the World Wide Web. The Center for Jewish History provides on-site access to Project Muse journals.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2005)
The ProQuest Historical Newspaper Database of the NY TIMES is a searchable database of full page, full text articles from 1851 to 2005.
Readers' Guide
Readers' Guide indexes a core list of popular periodicals published in the United States and Canada; it also cites book reviews. It corresponds to the printed Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and is produced by the H.W. Wilson Company.
Shoreshim: Finding Your Jewish Roots in Poland
Shoreshim is a genealogical database relating to the Jewish communities of Poland from pre-19th century to the 20th century. Data includes vital statistics, Holocaust survivor records, army and ghetto records, census, and more.

Soncino Classics Collection (on CD-ROM)
The classics of Judaism in the original languages as well as English translation. In English: the Tanach, the Talmud, Midrash Rabbah, and the Zohar. In Hebrew and/or Aramaic: the Tanach, the Talmud, Rashi's commentary on the Talmud, Rashi's commentary on Chumash, Midrash Rabbah, and the Zohar.
Stürmer
Der Stürmer was an anti-Semitic German weekly, founded and edited by Julius Streicher. It appeared in Nuremberg between 1923 and 1945. The vulgarity of its articles and caricatures possibly surpassed all other Nazi publications. The CD contains 156 issues (approx. 1,775 pages) from 1939 - 1941, and includes a searchable English keyword index.
Testaments to the Holocaust
These are documents and rare printed materials from the Wiener Library in London. The collection offers fully searchable personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany, along with photographs, propaganda materials such as school text books, limited circulation publications, and rare serials.
Washington Post Historical Newspaper
The Washington Post (1877-1990) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Wer ist Wer – Who's Who in Germany (CD-ROM)
Contains biographies of about 32,000 prominent people in Germany including politicians, scientists, artists, sportsmen, writers, leading personalities, and publishers. Also contains 2,000 photos.
World Biographical Information
The World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS Online) is a comprehensive biographical database, based on the digitization of K. G. Saur's Biographical Archives. It compiles biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 21st century, totaling short biographies on more than 4 million people.
World Jewish Directory 2000 (CD-ROM)
A comprehensive listing of Jewish resource centers, cultural, and educational institutions throughout the Diaspora (Holocaust research institutes, museums, colleges, and universities are also listed in Israel). The directory does not mention synagogues, kosher restaurants, or hotels, etc.

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Academic Guide to Jewish History (Free)
A web site offered by the University of Toronto Libraries with a wide selection of valuable links to scholarly resources on the internet and in print.
AJHS Journal (Free)
ADAJE: American Digital Archive of the Jewish Experience is an electronic repository of digitized American Jewish periodicals. The first content available is the Society's journal, American Jewish History, for the years 1893-1978. The journal is fully (and freely) searchable as a ProQuest database.
AJHS Journal (On-Site Only)
The content available is the Society's journal, American Jewish History, for the years 1893-1978. The journal is fully (and freely) searchable as a ProQuest database.
AKL Allgemeine Kuenstlerlexikon (International Database of Artists Online) (On-Site Only)
AKL Allgemeine Kuenstlerlexikon is an extensive database containing biographical information on more than 1 million artists. It is based on the Thieme-Becker/Vollmer encyclopedia, the Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon, and the Lexikon der Künstlerinnen.
All About Jewish Theater (Free)
This Website is dedicated to Jewish theatre and performing arts. It aims to promote, cultivate, and distribute the study of Jewish theatre and performing arts, to provide an interactive network for its audiences, and to encourage original Jewish theater.
America: History and Life (On-Site Only)
Bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 490,000 bibliographic entries for over 2,000 periodicals dating back to 1954.
American Book Prices Current (ABPC) (On-Site Only)
American Book Prices Current is an annual record of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps, and broadsides sold at auction. Countries covered include North America and the UK, with sales from such other countries as Switzerland, Germany, Monaco, Holland, and Australia.
American Jewish Archives (Free)
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry.
American Jewish Archives (Free)
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry.
American Jewish Committee Archives (Free)
The site includes an interactive archival timeline: historic films and TV shows, and broadcasts from the golden age of American radio. The oral history collection includes conversations with and about legendary Jewish athletes, comedians, Nobel Prize winning writers, and political leaders. Also included are all volumes of the American Jewish Year Book from 1899 to the present.
American Memory (Free)
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity.
American National Biography (On-Site Only)
The online edition of American National Biography profiles more than 18,700 men and women from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
Ancestry (On-Site Only)
Ancestry Library Edition is a comprehensive online resource for family history which includes many collections, such as the U.S. Immigration Collection, the U.S. Census Collection, and the Jewish Family History Collection. It is geared toward genealogists and family history researchers.
ANNO – AustriaN Newspapers Online (Free)
The Austrian National Library offers historic newspaper-pages online. AustriaN Newspapers Online (ANNO) covers the period from 1716 until 1936. At the moment there are over 3.5 million pages of 70 different newspapers and journals available online.
Annotated Bibliography on Antisemitism (Free)
The Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism includes works published throughout the world about anti-Semitism – books, dissertations, master's theses, and articles from periodicals and collections (presently about 40,000 items). In addition, there is a database on "The Jewish Question in German-Speaking Countries, 1848-1914" of ca. 4,500 references.