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Digital Resources : online books, newspapers, and reference Books

Yizkor (Memorial Books) at New York Public Library
http://yizkor.nypl.org/
There are hundreds of books available as pdf files on this site.

Bar Ilan Responsa Project
http://www.responsa.co.il/
This database includes Torah, Talmud, codes, and commentaries in addition to works of responsa. Texts are available in Hebrew only. Basic searching is available to anyone, but advanced features are only available to subscribers.

HebrewBooks.org
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/

"Hebrewbooks.org was founded in order to preserve old American Hebrew books that are out of print and/or circulation ... [their] mission has expanded to include all Torah Seforim ever printed"

Sacred Jewish Texts at Snunit
http://kodesh.snunit.k12.il/
This Hebrew site includes the Hebrew texts of the Tanakh, Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud (Babylonian, and Jerusalem), Tosefta, and Mishneh Torah. Click one of the texts listed below the title. When viewing a text, you can highlight a word and them click on the dictionary icon floating on the left side for the English definition.

Digital projects at the Jewish National and University Library
Ketubbot collection, Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts, Ancient Maps of Jerusalem, Holy Land Maps, Einstein Archives, Digitized Book Repository, Writings of Maimonides

Digitized Ladino Library
http://www.stanford.edu/group/mediterranean/seph_project/index.html
The Sephardi Studies Project at Stanford University has digitized and posted several texts including: Kanunname de Penas, Yisrael, Reuven Eliyahu, Traduksyon Livre de las Poezias de Rosh ha-Shana i Kippur; Jerusalmi, Isaac, From Ottoman Turkish to Ladino; Risāle, Alschech, Josef, The Selihoth of the Sephardim; Jerusalmi, Isaac, The Song of Songs in the Targumic Tradition.

E-Daf
http://www.e-daf.com/
This site has images of Talmud pages with audio files in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

Seforim Online
http://seforimonline.org/
This site focuses on the works of the Rishonim and Acharonim

Project Ben-Yehuda
This Hebrew site has texts of Hebrew poetry and literature that is in the public domain
http://www.benyehuda.org/

Sacred Jewish Poetry
http://www.piyut.org.il/english/
Includes the texts of piyutim as well as sound file examples.

Menasseh Ben Israel
Scanned images of books printed by this early Dutch publisher
http://cf.uba.uva.nl/en/collections/rosenthaliana/menasseh/books.html

Mechon-Mamre
This site has the Tanach in Hebrew and English, Onqelos, and RaMBam's Mishneh Torah, Mishnah, Talmud, and Tosefta.
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/index.htm

Legends of the Jews / Louis Ginzberg
V. 1-4
http://philologos.org/__eb-lotj/

Minhag Amerika : the daily prayers for American Israelites as revised in conference.
Cincinnati : Bloch & Co., 1872.
http://www.huc.edu/libraries/collections/ebooks/minhag-amerika/minhagam.php

Dictionaries

Jastrow online / at Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies
http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/jastrow/
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature

Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
You can search the database for word definitions or browse the texts.
http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/

American Sign Language
http://www.aslpro.com/

Newspapers

Early Hebrew Newspapers Project / The Jewish National and University Library, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project
Includes: Halevanon, Hamagid, Havazelet, Havazefira, Hameliz, Hazevi/Haor/Hashkafah
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/newspapers/eng.html

Compact memory - Internetarchiv Juedische Periodika
Includes over 100 German Jewish journals from between 1806 and 1938
http://www.compactmemory.de/

Exilpresse Digital
This German site has 30 Jewish German newspapers published between 1933-1945. Includes Aufbau and Die Zeitung
http://deposit.ddb.de/online/exil/exil.htm

Zeitschrift fur hebraische Bibliographie
1896-1921
http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/catalog.php?IdentPerio=NP00569

Jewish Community Chronicle (Long Beach & Orange Co., Calif.)
February 1, 1947 through December 20, 2000
http://jewishchronicle.library.csulb.edu/

Lists of Sources

Halacha Brura and Birur Halacha Institute
This Hebrew site has an extensive list of online Biblical and rabbinic sources.
http://www.halachabrura.org/alephlink.htm

Judaica Electronic Resources / by JNUL List sites with full text books, electronic forums, databases, full text journals, and scholarly Jewish portals
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/ejudaica.html


While the Library thinks that these sites are useful, their content is not under our control and may express views that are not shared by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

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