Spring 2011
"Jewish Studies 'Born Digital'"
Fall 2010
"Online Resources for Talmud Research, Study, and Teaching
Fall 2009
"Online Resources for Jewish Economics"
Spring 2009
"Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-first Century: A Changing Landscape"
Fall 2008
"New Tools for Jewish Linguistics"
Spring 2008
"Researching Orthodox Judaism Online"
Fall 2007
"Web-Based Learning and Teaching Resources for Jewish Studies"
Spring 2007
"Internet Resources for Jewish Biography and Autobiography"
Fall 2006
"Jewish Political Studies on the Internet"
Spring 2006
"Sharing Knowledge: Recent Trends in Search and Delivery Tools for Scholarly Content"
Spring 2005
"Treasure Hunting for New Judaic Resources on the World Wide Web"
Fall 2004
"Electronic Books in the Academic World and the Implications for Jewish Studies"
Spring 2004
"Hebrew in Bits and Bytes: An Introduction to Coding and Formatting of Hebrew Electronic Resources"
Fall 2003
"Historic Jewish Periodicals/Newspapers and the Web"
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Born-Digital E-books
ACLS Humanities E-Book project
Online Journals
Quntres: An Online Journal for the History, Culture, and Art of the Jewish Book
Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History; Perush
The Journal of Inter-religious Dialogue
Geographic Tools
eRuv: A Street History in Semacode
Born-Digital Literature and the Arts
Israeli Center for Digital Art
Web2
Born-Digital Information Management
Ismar Elbogen Netzwerk für jüdische Kulturgeschichte e.V.
JewLib. Digital Archive-Library
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Full Text
Primary Textual Witnesses to Tannaitic Literature
Manuscripts
Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts
First printed edition of the Yerushalmi
Largest single collection of Cairo Genizah fragments
Websites and Tools
Page from the Babylonian Talmud
The Babylonian Talmud Research Guide
Index to Commentaries on Aggadot of the Talmud
A Proposed Guide for Citing Rabbinic Texts
Database of Midrashic Units in the Mishnah
Dictionaries
Marcus Jastrow's A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature - PDF | Searchable
The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
Blogs
Daf Yomi
New Directions
Collaborative Research Centre at the University of Cologne
CHAT: a System for Stylistic Classification of Hebrew-Aramaic Text
Computer-assisted method for Cairo Genizah research
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North America
Data Archives/Statistical Information
American Religious Data Archives
North American Jewish Data Bank
National Jewish Population Survey
American Jewish Identity Survey
Resources on Nonprofits
Steven Windmueller. “The Unfolding Economic Crisis: Its Devastating Implications for American Jewry,” working paper no. 47 (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs' Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, 2009).
National Center for Charitable Statistics
Israel Statistical, Economic, and Demographic Data
The Economist’s Country Briefings Israel
Federation of International Trade Associations Israel Country Profile
Israel Social Sciences Data Center
Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel
Israel Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Labor
National Insurance Institute of Israel
Jewish Law and Secular Life
Center for Halacha and American Law's Jewish law website
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General
Resolution concerning scholarly publishing, Cornell University Faculty Senate, May 11, 2005
National Institute of Health public access law, January 2008
Requirement for researchers to deposit articles in open access repository, Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, February 2008
Statement affirming preference for high-quality, affordable textbooks, released by one thousand professors, April 2008
"Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication," report by Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in association with Ithaka Strategic Services, Autumn 2008
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, a search tool for items once but no longer online
Open Access and Institutional Repositories
Open Access, Peer-Reviewed Journals
Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation
Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal
Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online
Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations
Open-Access University Repositories
eScholarship Repository, University of California and the California Digital Library
ScholarlyCommons@Penn, University of Pennsylvania
Other Repositories
Social Science Research Network
Listservs and Discussion Forums
Mendele: Yiddish Literature and Yiddish Language
Sephardi Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List
Blogs
Hagahot, by Pinchas Roth (Manuscriptboy)
Michtavim, by Menachem Butler
Tradition Seforim, edited by Menachem Butler and Dan Rabinowtiz
Open Access Textbooks
Pe’er, Open University of Israel
E-Books
Center for Educational Technology
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General
Jewish Language Research Website
Annotated Corpora
Hebrew Treebank Version 2.0, Mila Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew, Technion
Jan H. Kroeze, "Building and Displaying a Biblical Hebrew Linguistics Data Cube Using XML," presented at the Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL) Conference, Haifa, Israel, June 2006.
Mila Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew, Technion
Yiddish Texts Annotated Corpus by Beatrice Santorini
Unannotated Corpora
Dictionaries
Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati
Maagarim, the Historical Dictionary Project (HDP)
Morfix Dictionary, Melingo Company
Rav-Milim, Melingo Company
Audio and Sound Collections
Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
Dialect Atlas of the Surviving North Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects
(information page only)
Eydes: Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies
Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
SemArch, University of Heidelberg
The UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages: Europe
Yeled V’Yalda Multilingual Development and Education Research Institute
Tools for the Twenty-first Century
Electronic Edition of a Historic Judeo-Spanish Text, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3
Jewish English: Distinctive Lexicon (beta version)
Ladinomunita, online discussion group
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Orthodox Judaism and the Media
Arutz Sheva Israel National News
Meorot: A Forum of Modern Orthodox Discourse
Organizational Websites
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA)
Kolech-Religious Women’s Forum
Machon Meir Institute of Jewish Studies
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
Virtual Beit Midrash, Yeshivat Har Etzion
YU Torah Online, Yeshiva University
Communication within Orthodox and Haredi Communities
Be-ahavah u’be-emunah, Machon Meir
Birkat Yosef Hesder Yeshiva at Elon Moreh
Daf Yomi resources, Kollel Iyun Hadaf
Haredi forum directories, Modiya, New York University
Kol tsofayikh, teachings of Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu
Orthodox Jewish feminist blogs, Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA)
Rabbi Daniel Zer, downloadable sermons
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Maron
Rabbi Shalom Arush, spiritual leader of Sephardic followers of Bratslav Hasidism
Shabat be-shabato, Moreshet
Sikhat ha-ge’ulah, Chabad
Sikhat ha-shavu‘a, Chabad
Yesha Rabbinical Council (Va’ad Rabane Yesha)
Archival Resources
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Teaching Resources
Center for Advanced Research and Language Acquisition (CARLA),
University of Minnesota
Center for Online Judaic Studies (COJS)
Hebrew Program at the University of Texas at Austin
MODIYA Project: Jews/Media/Religion, New York University
Software
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Directories, Biographical Dictionaries, and Encyclopedias
American National Biography Online, Oxford University Press (by subscription)
Biography Reference Bank, H. W. Wilson (by subscription)
Biography Resource Center, Gale Group (by subscription)
Hebrew Author Database, Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
Modern Hebrew Literature—a Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon, The Ohio State University
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (by subscription)
World Biographical Index, K. G. Saur (by subscription)
Websites and Portals
Primary Sources: Digital Collections of Primary Sources
1. Archives: Finding Aids
California Digital Library's Online Archive of California
2. Archives: Databases and Websites
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust: Testimonies, Yale University
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives, Alexander Street Press
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories, Alexander Street Press (by subscription)
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Alexander Street Press (by subscription)
USC Shoah Foundation Institute
3. Online Diaries and Weblogs
Articles
Michael Keren,“Online Life Writing: One Israeli's Search for Sanity,” Auto/Biography 13, 2005.
William O'Shea, "The Sharer of Secrets: Anonymous Blog Cracks Window Into Hasidic Community," Village Voice, July 22, 2003.
Edward Portnoy, "Haredim and the Internet," Modiya website, 2004.
Sites
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Gateways
Politics: General Israel/Jewish Politics, Israel/Arab Relations
Listservs and Discussion Lists
H-Judaic (Jewish Studies Network, JSN)
H-NET (Humanities and Social Sciences Online)
PSRT-L (Political Science Research and Teaching List)
Think Tanks and Research Organizations
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University
The Harry S. Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information
Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel-Aviv University
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel-Aviv University
Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel-Aviv University
Taub Center for Social Policy Studies
Online Collections and Research
Arab-Israel Research Projects, The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Daniel Elazar On-Line Library, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Multimedia (Sound and Visuals)
Israel Government Press Office
Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution
University of Texas Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collections
Full-text Databases, Journals, and Books
Expanded Academic ASAP (by subscription)
Jewish Political Studies Review
SAGE Full-Text Collection for Political Science (by subscription)
Statistical Data
Association of Religion Data Archives
Mandell L Berman Institute–North American Jewish Data Bank
State of Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics
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Digitized Publications
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, International School of Information Science (ISIS)
Project Muse (by subscription)
Blogs
RSS
RSS Feeds for Recently Cataloged Titles, University Libraries, University of Alabama
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Digital Resources on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews
Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, University of California, Davis
The Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania
Semitisches Tonarchiv (SemArch), Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients Semitistik, Universität Heidelberg
Subject Portals
Academic Guide to Jewish History, University of Toronto Libraries
Humbul Humanities Hub, Research Discovery Network and Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University
Jewish History Resource Center, Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
OAIster, University of Michigan
Video Repositories
Library of Congress American History Project
T-Space University of Toronto’s Institutional Repository
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Academic and Jewish Studies Electonic Book Resources
Bibliotheca Rosenthalia’s Menasseh ben Israel collection
Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France
History E-book Project, American Council of Learned Societies
Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository
Commercial Vendors of Electronic Books
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Code2000 and Code2001 Fonts (shareware)
SIL Ezra Hebrew Unicode Fonts (freeware)
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Free Jewish Periodicals/Newspapers Online:
The Jewish Press Site at Tel-Aviv University
The Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books
Jewish Periodicals/Newspapers Online by Subscription:
American Theological Library Association Serials (ATLAS)
Periodical Index Online (formerly, Periodicals Contents Index, PCI)
Additional Resources:
Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging, Research Libraries Group
RLG DigiNews (From the Research Libraries Group)
Ronald W. Zweig, “Lessons from the Palestine Post Project,” Literary and Linguistic Computing 13: 2 (1998): 89–95.
