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Jewish Studies

A Subject Guide to research in all fields related to Jewish Studies, on campus and beyond

Media/ Photo Archives

Akkasah: An archive of photographs from the Middle East and North Africa (The Center for Photography at New York University Abu Dhabi).

ARTstor Digital Library: Digital images and related data and the tools to make active use of those images.

Imagine: the Israel Museum Searchable Collections Database: Highlights of the Archaeology, Art, Judaica and Jewish Ethnography collections from the Israel Museum.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online:

Yad va-Shem Photo Collection: The online archive currently comprises 130,000 historical photos.

Film Resources

Israeli Documentary Films at ASU: A collection of documentary films with English subtitles.

Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive: Full length films on Jewish topics, searchable by categories: Jewish communities, the Holocaust, pre-State, the State of Israel and the Hebrew University.

Jewish Heritage Video Collection Curricula: PDF files of the book Friedman, Lester D., and David Desser. 1995. American Jewish directors: three visions of the American Jewish experience. New York, NY: Jewish Media Fund.

Streaming Music and More

 

Jewish Music

American Cantorate: A joint project of Wesleyan University and Hebrew Union College, archiving the American Cantorate Project (1984-1986).

The Jewish Theological Seminary Music Collections: Include archives, sound recordings and musical scores depicting Ashkenazi and Sefardi traditions and the tradition of Cochin, India.

Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive: A repository of sound recordings for researchers and students. Users must register as researchers.

Jewish Music WebCenter, UCLA. Made available by Judith Pinnolis, a Librarian at the Goldfarb Library at Brandeis University.

Jewish Music Research Centre: An academic research center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Recorded Sound Archives: The Florida Atlantic University Libraries database includes thousands of streaming audio (non-downloadable), digitized from old albums. Covers many musical genres, both sacred and secular.

Let Us Sing: An egalitarian traditional bencher, or booklet of Jewish songs and blessings. 

The Milken Archive if Jewish Music: A collection of oral histories, photographs and historical documents, and thousands of hours of video footage from recording sessions, interviews, and live performances.

The Piyut and Tefila Archive: Recorded Liturgical music and Torah readings, National Library of Israel.

Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive: Musical recordings of many genres, including Yiddish folk and art songs, liturgical, theatrical, vaudeville, and klezmer music, and field recordings. University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Sephardic Music - A Century of Recordings: A personal website of recorded Sephardic music (maintained until 2012).

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