Online Resources Jewish Studies „Corona Service“
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, research institutions, archives and libraries were closed and many still offer only a limited service. The Special Information Service for Jewish Studies initially collected information on digital resources through its Twitter account which is presented here in a structured manner.
This list does not claim to be complete, we are happy to receive references to
further resources at
info@jewishstudies.de.
Status: February 2021
Contents
- General information
- Journals – freely accessible or via the SIS
- Digital collections
- Digital editions and Projects
- Blogs
- Podcasts
- Museums and Memorials online
- Online courses and videos
1. General information
- The Digital Collections with the Hebraica & Judaica holdings of the Frankfurt University Library
http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/judaica - FID Jewish Studies Portal
jewishstudies.de/en - Licenses by the FID Jewish Studies - free registration for researchers of Jewish Studies and adjacent
https://juedische-studien.fid-lizenzen.de - freely accessible resources at JSTOR
https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/ - On the open access platform Muse, numerous publishers make their digital offers temporarily available to the public
https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=freeaccess - Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Research Guide
https://guides.library.brandeis.edu/schusterman_home
2. Journals – freely accessible or via the SIS
Open Access
- Medaon. Journal for Jewish Life in Research and Education (Articles in German & English)
https://www.medaon.de/en/ - PaRDeS – Journal of the (German) Association for Jewish Studies
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-series-364 - Quest. Issue in Contemporary Jewish History
https://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/about-this-journal/ - Tradition. A Journal of Modern Orthodox Thought (except for the most recent one all issues are freely accessible)
https://traditiononline.org/archives/ - Religions. Open Access Journal
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions - American Jewish Archive Journal
http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/ - Selection of Jewish press of Switzerland, partly freely accessible
https://collections.afz.ethz.ch/
Licenses by the FID Jewish Studies
After free registration for researchers based in Germany engaged in research in Jewish Studies & Israel Studies
- JSTOR Complete Jewish Studies Collection
https://juedische-studien.fid-lizenzen.de/angebote/nlproduct.2016-11-17.5929917788 - Journal of Ancient Judaism (2019)
https://juedische-studien.fid-lizenzen.de/angebote/nlproduct.2019-09-20.2424001832
3. Digital collections
- The Judaica Collection, University Library Frankfurt am Main
http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/judaica - Digital Collection of the National Library of Israel
https://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/digitallibrary/dlib/Pages/default.aspx - Ktiv. Database for digitized Hebrew manuscripts worldwide
https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nlis/en/manuscript - Europeana - contains the Judaica Europeana (Digital Jewish Cultural Heritage Europe)
https://www.europeana.eu/en - Digital collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France with many Hebraica and Judaica
gallica.bnf.fr - Library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle
https://www.bibliotheque-numerique-aiu.org/ - Hebrew Books
http://www.hebrewbooks.org - DigiBaeck – Digital Collection of the Leo Baeck Institute New York/Berlin
https://www.lbi.org/collections/digibaeck/ - YIVO Books
http://yivolibrarybooks.org/ - The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections
https://vilnacollections.yivo.org/ - Yiddish Book Center
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/ - Jewish Theological Seminary
https://digitalcollections.jtsa.edu/ - Michelle Chesner, Columbia University Library, published on Twitter a list of useful information for Jewish Studies
https://twitter.com/hchesner - The Moscow State Yiddish Theater Collection at the Blavatnik Archive Foundation
https://www.blavatnikarchive.org/collection/2 - Digital Library of the Middle East
https://dlmenetwork.org/library - Poetic Textures Else Lasker-Schüler Archives by the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach & online presentation via YouTube
https://www.laskerschuelerarchives.org/
https://youtu.be/JbLnHaIPA80 - Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, free access after registration
https://www.posenlibrary.com/ - Digital copies of central archive for researching the history of the Jews in Germany
https://zentralarchiv-juden.de/digitalisate/digitalisate-des-zentralarchivs/ - Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution
https://arolsen-archives.org/en/search-explore/search-online-archive/
4. Digital editions and Projects
- Sefaria - Online edition of Tanach, Talmud and Jewish commentary literature
sefaria.org - Key documents on German-Jewish history including online exhibitions (Sources in German, Descriptions in German & English)
https://jewish-history-online.net/ - de – Jüdisches Leben heute (German)
https://www.talmud.de - Yahad.net - A Jewish Heritage Network Project – Platform for Pesach with collection of digitally available Haggadot
https://yahad.net/ - Mapping modern Jewish cultures by Shachar Pinsker – online project about the development of Modern Jewish Cultures in the urban environment
https://richbrew.org/ - “Roman Mafteach: Distant Reading in the Hebrew Novel, Risks and Chances” New project of the Literary Lab at Ben Gurion University
https://www.lit-lab.bgu.ac.il/the-hebrew-novel
5. Blogs
- The Librarians / HaSafranim – Blog of the National Library of Israel
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/ (English)
https://blog.nli.org.il (Hebrew) - Jewish Philosophy Place – Blog by Zachary Braiterman (Syracuse University)
https://jewishphilosophyplace.com - The Seforim Blog – All About Seforim, New and Old, and Jewish Bibliography
https://seforimblog.com/about/ - Footprints: Jewish Books through Time and Place – Blog about the project
https://edblogs.columbia.edu/footprints/ - Knowledge in Circulation– Blog about a research project on esoteric knowledge in early modern Jewish manuscripts
https://esknowcirc.hypotheses.org - Yiddish Song of the Week
https://yiddishsong.wordpress.com - Lehrhaus – Orthodox Blog Project
https://thelehrhaus.com/ - Torah.com - Blog about the Torah and its topics
https://www.thetorah.com/
→ for blogs run by museums see 7
6. Podcasts
General introductory podcasts of public service broadcasters
- "Aus der Jüdischen Welt" - Deutschlandfunk Kultur every Friday on air &available as podcast (German)
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/aus-der-juedischen-welt.1078.de.html - hr2 kultur „Jüdische Welt“ (German)
https://www.hr2.de/podcasts/juedische-welt/index.html - wdr5 radio programme Tiefenblick with 4 episodes on „Juden und Judentum“ (German)
https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/tiefenblick/juden-und-judentum-102.html - Lectures by Prof. Dr. Samuel Salzborn on topics from the political science and social science via Spotify (German)
https://open.spotify.com/show/1cjUnM4bDG2bPrrumZ32E4 - „Let’s talk sisters!“ – Podcast of the Jewish Museum Augsburg (German)
https://jmaugsburg.de/onlineangebote/podcast/
Podcasts from the Jewish Studies
- "Jüdische Geschichte" by and with Daniel Mahla from the Department of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilians-University Munich (German)
https://www.jgk.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/podcast/index.html - Jewish History Matters FM by and with Jason Lustig
https://www.jewishhistory.fm/ - AJS Adventure in Jewish Studies Podcast series
https://associationforjewishstudies.org/publications-research/adventures-in-jewish-studies-podcast - Podcast of the Jewish Women’s Archive
https://jwa.org/podcasts/canwetalk - Podcast of the Hebrew Union College
https://collegecommons.huc.edu/bully-pulpit/ - “What’s New? What’s Next? Jewish Studies in the time of pandemic” Podcast by POLIN Museum
https://polin.pl/en/podcasts-geop-whats-new-whats-next - “In Times Gone By” Podcast by Australian Jewish Historical Society
https://www.ajhs.com.au/podcast/ - “Jüdische Geschichte Kompakt“ Podcast by the Institute for the History of the German Jews (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, IGdJ) (German)
https://juedischegeschichtekompakt.podigee.io/ - “Schon immer Tachles“ Podcast by the Central Council of Jews in Germany (German)
https://www.zentralratderjuden.de/aktuelle-meldung/artikel/news/schon-immer-tachles-podcast/ - New books in Jewish Studies from The New Books Network
https://open.spotify.com/show/06g6JT823XfuuEPtnV8C2d
- "Jewish Questions: Anti-Semitism" Podcast by UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
https://open.spotify.com/show/7o4NW5sVnn6Ugmg6dl4lIa
Podcasts from the Israel Studies
- Podcast of the Israel Studies Seminar of the University of Oxford
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/israel-studies-seminar - „Mekka und Jerusalem“ – A podcast on Jewish-Muslim relations, by and with Johannes Becke and Frederek Musall, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg (German)
https://www.hfjs.eu/mekka_jerusalem/start.html - Israel Hour Radio on air and as podcast
https://www.myisraelimusic.com/podcast-2/ - Tel Aviv Review Podcast by TLV1 – Scientific reviews and discussions
https://tlv1.fm/podcasts/tel-aviv-review-show/ - Weekly Podcast from Ha‘aretz
https://www.haaretz.co.il/digital/podcast/weekly -
השעה
הבינלאומית –
כאן עולמי International Hour by Radio Kan
https://www.kan.org.il/podcast/program.aspx/?progId=2058 -
גם כן תרבות
– Podcast on society and culture by Radio Kan
https://www.kan.org.il/podcast/program.aspx/?progid=11 -
עושים
פוליטיקה – Political podcast by and
with Daphna Liel
https://www.ranlevi.com/osim_politica/ - Podcasts by Israel Democracy Institute
https://en.idi.org.il/podcasts/ - “Israel in Depth“ Podcast by Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at University of California, Los Angeles
https://www.international.ucla.edu/israel/israelindepthpodcasts/
7. Museums and Memorials online
- Anne Frank Day 2021 “A Glance at History“ (12. May) (German)
https://www.annefranktag.de/ - Google Arts & Culture – virtual exhibitions & object shows
- Jewish Museum Berlin, Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Jewish Museum Wien, Jewish Museum New York, Jewish Museum London
https://artsandculture.google.com/search/partner?q=Jewish%20museum - Israel Museum
https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/the-israel-museum-jerusalem/iQEu5-RzOm82-A
- Jewish Museum Berlin, Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Jewish Museum Wien, Jewish Museum New York, Jewish Museum London
- Object database & online showcase Jewish Museum Berlin (German)
https://objekte.jmberlin.de/
https://www.jmberlin.de/en/online-projects - Facebook Live Talks on objects, other videos & blog of the Jewish Museum London
https://www.facebook.com/pg/JewishMuseumLDN/videos/?ref=page_internal
https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/category/learning-news/ - Blog & online showcase Jewish Museum Frankfurt (German)
https://www.juedischesmuseum.de/blog/
https://www.facebook.com/juedischesmuseumffm/ - Audio and video tours of the Jewish Museum New York
https://tours.thejewishmuseum.org/ - Audio tours of the Topographie des Terrors Berlin (German)
https://www.topographie.de/en/topography-of-terror/ - Online resources Jewish Museum Rendsburg (German)
https://jmrd.de/ - Virtual comic exhibition of 12 Israeli artists
https://www.imaj.be/expo-bd/ - “Exploring Sephardic Life Cycle Customs“ Online Exhibition by the Sephardic Studies Program at University of Washington
http://jewishstudies.washington.edu/omeka/ - The Anne Frank House Online
https://www.annefrank.org/en/museum/web-and-digital/ - Digital Experience of Jewish Vienna by Jewish Museum Vienna
http://www.jmw.at/de/blog/juedisches-wien-digital-erleben - “Topography of violence - Antisemitic violence in Germany 1930-38” by the Jewish Museum Berlin
https://www.jmberlin.de/topographie-gewalt/#/en/info - 3-D tours of the Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg-Swabia
https://jmaugsburg.de/onlineangebote/3d-touren/
Do-it-yourself ideas not only for children
- Shadow show of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt (German)
https://www.juedischesmuseum.de/blog/schattenspiel-gegen-corona/ - Painting templates & activities for children of the Israel Museum
https://www.imj.org.il/en/events/museum-closed-come
Online resources of memorial sites
- #LichterGegenDunkelheit – Gemeinsame Initiative der Gedenkstätten (German)
https://www.lichter-gegen-dunkelheit.de - Virtual commemoration of the Dachau concentration camp memorial (German)
https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/en/veranstaltungen/ - Facebook page of the Dachau concentration camp memorial site with live tours (German)
https://www.facebook.com/pg/DachauMemorial/videos/?ref=page_internal - Digital memorial of the Arolsen Archives
https://arolsen-archives.org/en/learn-participate/interactive-archive/everynamecounts/
8. Online courses and videos
- AJS Webinar Archive
https://associationforjewishstudies.org/professional-development/webinars/past-webinars - YIVO Facebook Live Talks
https://www.facebook.com/YIVOInstitute/posts/3302756563090682 - YIVO’s Shine Online Educational Series
https://yivo.org/shine - Yad Vashem online courses on the Holocaust and Antisemitism
https://www.yadvashem.org/education/online-courses.html - Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiVHixhCcFsc6r1E9F_fCaQ - Center for Jewish History on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG-AeN6L-1INwOABRWVaUrA - Leo Baeck Institute New York on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/leobaeckinstitute - Barry Wimpfheimer’s (Northwestern University) “Introduction to Judaism” online course
https://sites.northwestern.edu/introductiontojudaism/ - Video series by Zev Eleff, Lecturer for Jewish History at Touro College
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjb5IepgAsSc9MvDZvAP5vg - Rabbi J.C. Soussan's (Frankfurt/Main) Shiurim on Facebook (German)
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Rabbiner-J-C-Soussan-825115870854382/videos/?ref=page_internal - Advanced training by Bildungsstätte Anne Frank (German)
https://www.bs-anne-frank.de/erwachsenenbildung/ - The Cairo Geniza in the Digital Age: Webinar with Marina Rustow
https://youtu.be/2PygDkjnB08 - Virtual Classrooms by Jewish Museum London
https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/virtual-classrooms/ - National Library of Israel on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/NLI2010/about - Video lectures from the Holocaust Studies at Western Galilee College
https://english.wgalil.ac.il/research/research-centers/holocaust-research/lectures-videos/ - “Meet the Author“ online series by the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Presents
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnGhxjLo1IsdINyuWcFNN5g - YouTube channel of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies incl. the SIMS / Katz Center Lecture Series
https://www.youtube.com/user/SchoenbergInstitute/ - Series of lectures by Hebrew Union College
http://huc.edu/huc-connect-2021-calendar-view#month - Virtual reading room by the National Library Israel
https://live-events.nli.org.il/ - Martin Buber-Professur Frankfurt on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3nXa7GsCUKLklTuMI5S-oA/featured
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