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Jewish history

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Academic Guide to Jewish History: Offers details of resources relating to Jewish history. Including information gateways, encyclopedias and bibliographies, libraries and archives, journals, and full-text primary documents.
Author: Mendelsohn, Jenny
Subjects: jewish history
DeweyClass: 956.94
Resource type: index
Anne Frank Trust UK: A not-for-profit educational charity supported by those committed to preserving the legacy of Anne Frank and defending democracy and human rights. Includes information about the life and times of Anne Frank, history of the Nazi period, and racism and discrimination in the world today.
Author: Anne Frank Trust UK
Subjects: jewish history, racism, second world war
DeweyClass: 940.5318
Resource type: documents
BBC History: Holocaust: Provides personal testimonies, images, and analysis of the Holocaust. A general overview is complemented by sections on Adolf Eichmann, Churchill, the liberation of Auschwitz, and the issues of remembrance and forgiveness by the Jewish people.
Author: BBC
Subjects: holocaust, jewish history
DeweyClass: 940.5318
Resource type: documents
Beth Shalom Holocaust Web Centre: Central hub for three Holocaust related resources; an information centre located in Nottinghamshire, an online bookstore, and historical material aimed at school pupils which may also prove useful for teaching. In addition to this, research initiatives run by Beth Shalom such as Aegis and RFTF (Remembering for the Future) are featured.
Author: Holocaust Centre
Subjects: holocaust, jewish history
DeweyClass: 940.5318
Resource type: documents
Center for Jewish History: The Center for Jewish History is composed of four institutions of higher Jewish learning, which aim to create a campus devoted to the furtherance of Jewish scholarship in New York.
Author: Center for Jewish History
Subjects: jewish history
DeweyClass: 909.04924
Resource type: institution
Classification System for Libraries of Judaica: Information, tables of contents, and comments on work based upon, and arranged according to, Jewish thought, history, and religion, and used in libraries of all kinds, synagogues, community centres, Hebrew schools, college campuses, and research institutions.
Author: Elazar, David & Elazar, Daniel
Subjects: classification, hebrew, jewish history
DeweyClass: 025.3
Resource type: book
FAQ on Judaism: Answers to numerous questions frequently asked of the soc.culture.jewish newsgroup. Topics include Torah and Halachic Authority, observance, marriage, women in Judaism, worship, conversion, intermarriage, Jewish thought, Jews as a nation, Jews and Israel, Holocaust, antisemitism, missionaries, reform Judaism, and Jewish childrearing related questions.
Author: Ohio State University
Subjects: israel, jewish history, judaism
DeweyClass: 296
Resource type: documents
Forward: Founded in 1897 the Forward's initial aim was to fight for Jewish social justice, and latterly to preserve Yiddish literature and culture. Now published weekly and maintaining a Jewish orientation to news events, the English language version offers access to current news articles and back issues to 1998, a brief history of the newspaper, access to the Yiddish Forward, and links to additional online sources of Jewish relevance.
Author: Forward Publishing Company
Subjects: jewish history, newspapers
DeweyClass: 071
Resource type: news
Frontline: Apocalypse!: Collection of material concerned with apocalypticism throughout time, tracing the expectations of early believers, crusaders of the Middle Ages, and followers of New Age philosophy. Provides essays and interviews by historians and biblical scholars on the Book of Revelation, Jews and the birth of apocalyptic thought, and the rise of the Antichrist as a central figure in end time scenarios. Contains a pictorial chronology of artistic representations of the apocalypse throughout Western history, and a round table of scholars discussing apoctalypticism and the American psyche.
Author: Public Broadcasting Service
Subjects: alternative religions, christian history, jewish history, religion
DeweyClass: 210
Resource type: documents
Holocaust / Shoah: Links to holocaust related resources, including organisations, archives, conferences and documents.
Author: Dickerson, David M.
Subjects: holocaust, jewish history
DeweyClass: 940.5318
Resource type: index
Holocaust Chronicle: Full text of the book and a selection of images detailing atrocities committed by the Nazis against Jews and others during World War II. A timeline of events charts Jewish history from the Hebrews moving to Egypt to the Swiss Bank's settlement for the Holocaust survivors. Contains brief histories of anti-Semitism and fascism and a background of Germany leading up to the war. Resource is browsable by chapter and page, and searchable by date.
Author: Publications International
Subjects: holocaust, jewish history
DeweyClass: 940.5318
Resource type: images, non-fiction ebook
Jewish Virtual Library: Collection of resources about Judaism and Jewish history. Includes biographies of Jewish figures, information about the Holocaust including a chronology of Jewish persecution, a timeline for the history of Judaism, and details about human rights, Israel, peace process, and terrorism.
Author: American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Subjects: jewish history, judaism
DeweyClass: 296.68
Resource type: document index
Jewish-American History on the Web: Collection of letters, memoirs, and slavery polemics relating to Jewish contributions to 19th century American history with an emphasis on the Wild West and the settlement of the Civil War. Houses an online library with material on Jews and Mosaic law, wedding customs, and selections from The Occident, together with a monthly book review.
Author: Berkowitz, L. M.
Subjects: jewish history
DeweyClass: 909.04
Resource type: documents, images
Judaica Libraries and Archives on the Web: Directory of links to library home pages and archives located in Israel, United States, Canada, Curacao, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, all of which relate to the literature, culture, and customs of the Jewish population.
Author: Starr, Ethan
Subjects: hebrew, jewish history, judaism
DeweyClass: 026
Resource type: index
Judaism and Jewish Resources: Directory of Internet resources about Judaism and Jews.
Author: Tannenbaum, Andrew
Subjects: israel, jewish history, judaism
DeweyClass: 296
Resource type: index
Last Jews of Libya: Provides historical information about Libya, its Jewish community, and interviews with Libyan Jews. Also features a museum housing images of artifacts, food, landscapes, manuscripts, portraits and rituals. An Arabic newsletter is included.
Author: University of California Berkeley
Subjects: jewish history, judaism, libya
DeweyClass: 296
Resource type: documents, images
Medici Archive: Sample document reports from an archive of nearly 3 million letters written in Renaissance and Baroque Europe, providing a panorama of two hundred years of human history. The archive is keyword searchable, or browsable by topic such as Jewish history, costume and textiles, and arts and humanities subjects including antiquities, arms, books, ceramics, coins, drawings, animals, food, fortification, furniture, sports, gardens, glassware, jewels, maps, medicine, music, theatre, and timepieces. Documents are in Italian, with English translations.
Author: Medici Archive Project
Subjects: european history, italian history, jewish history
DeweyClass: 940.2
Resource type: documents
National Museum of American Jewish History: Digital images of exhibitions exploring the evolution of Jewish identity in America. Photographs of recent acquisitions are shown, as are exhibitions dating back to the museum's founding in 1976.
Author: National Museum of American Jewish History
Subjects: jewish history, united states museums
DeweyClass: 909.04
Resource type: museum
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation: A non-profit organisation founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994 dedicated to videotaping and archiving interviews of Holocaust survivors all over the world. Interviews are catalogued and archived using digital technology and will be made available via on-line, networks to museums, educational institutions and non-profit organisations.
Author: Shoah Foundation
Subjects: holocaust, jewish history, second world war
DeweyClass: 940.5318
Resource type: moving images
Virtual Library History - Holocaust Resources: Educational resource concentrating on the persecution of the Jewish people prior to and during World War II. Coverage includes Jewish history, antisemitism, Jewish life in Germany, and remembrance of the holocaust. In German, an English summary of the resource is also available.
Author: Blank, Ralf
Subjects: holocaust, jewish history
DeweyClass: 940.5318
Resource type: index
Voices of the Holocaust: Transcriptions of oral history material from interviews conducted with holocaust survivors in 1946. The interviewees are from a variety of social backgrounds and statistical data on gender, religion, and language is provided.
Author: Illinois Institute of Technology
Subjects: holocaust, jewish history
DeweyClass: 940.5318
Resource type: biographies, documents, sound collection
Women in Judaism: Multi-disciplinary online journal for scholarly debate on gender related issues in Judaism. Aims to promote the reconceptualisation of the study of Judaism by acknowledging and incorporating the roles played by women, and by encouraging the development of alternative research paradigms. It is particularly intended to promote critical analysis of gender inequalities within Jewish religion, culture and society, both ancient and modern.
Author: Eylon, Dina Ripsman & Kriger, Diane
Subjects: gender studies, jewish history, judaism
DeweyClass: 305.4924
Resource type: journal