Jewish Studies

From the Jewish Theological Seminary, the collections include Judaica Americana, a collection of pamphlets constituting a primary source for the study of American Jewish life; News about Jews, from 259 American newspapers, 1782-1898; Ketubbot Collection; Rare Prints; and Library Exhibits.

At the end of 2005, the Stanford University Libraries acquired a rich collection of books, pamphlets, magazines, printed ephemera, posters, postcards, photographs, maps, architectural plans, and original documents about the early history of "The First Hebrew City." The collection was assembled over a span of forty years by Eliasaf Robinson, a Tel Aviv native and Israel's most prominent antiquarian bookseller. The Eliasaf Robinson Collection on Tel Aviv - as it is now known - comprises approximately five hundred printed volumes (books and periodicals) and twenty linear feet of archival materials. It is among the most sought-after resources in the Stanford University Libraries.

Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage. Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions.

Gratz College Digital Collections support the mission of the Library and support the educational mission of the College. Digital Collections promote teaching and learning by providing preservation and removing barriers to access, acting as a hub of information for Jewish history, heritage, and culture. Gratz College Digital Collections is an active collection and will continue to grow with new items added on a regular basis.

Fred Monosson, a Boston Jewish multimillionaire, purchased one of the first privately-owned portable color movie cameras in the 1940s, then traveled to Europe and Israel to record the historical formation of the state of Israel in color. The films were later stored in a Boston attic and forgotten. When his grandchildren cleaned out the house to prepare it for sale, they were about to throw out the old films, believing that nobody would want them. However, one of the grandchildren decided to first call a friend who was an Israeli movie director.

DigiBaeck represents LBI's digital collections, a growing treasury of artifacts that document the rich heritage of German-speaking Jewry in the modern era. DigiBaeck provides instant access to materials ranging from rare 16th-century Renaissance books to memoirs that document the experience of German-Jewish émigrés across the world in the 20th century.

The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.

The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.

From 1941 to 1944, the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910–1991) was a member of an official team documenting the implementation of Nazi policies in the Lodz Ghetto. Covertly, he captured on film scores of both quotidian and intimate moments of Jewish life. In 1944, he buried thousands of negatives in an attempt to save this secret record. After the war, Ross returned to Poland to retrieve them. Although some were destroyed by nature and time, many negatives survived. "Memory unearthed : the Lodz Ghetto photographs of Henryk Ross" is in the Library's collection in the Morris Library, TR647 .R674x 2015, https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/1t1uoc2/alma991018550649707701.

The Milken Archive was founded in 1990 when Lowell Milken perceived an opportunity to preserve and disseminate a body of music that had helped shape the American Jewish experience. After assembling an editorial board comprising experts from diverse fields, the Archive commenced recording a collection currently comprising over 600 pieces of music by roughly 200 composers.

The National Library of Israel (NLI) in Jerusalem serves as the collective memory of the Jewish people worldwide and Israelis of all backgrounds and faiths. It is responsible for collecting, preserving, and making accessible the cultural and intellectual heritage of the Jewish people, the State of Israel, the Land of Israel, its people and region across the ages.

From the Prime Minister’s Office, State of Israel.

Links to transcriptions as well as to digitized images from the Taylor-Schechter Collection.