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Interesting Projects and Centers related to Jewish Studies

Center for Jewish History

The Center for Jewish History emerged from a vision of a unique central repository for the cultural and historical legacy of the Jewish people. The Center embodies the unique partnership of five major institutions of Jewish scholarship, history and art: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The Center will serve the worldwide academic and general communities with combined holdings of approximately 100 million archival documents, a half million books, and thousands of photographs, artifacts, paintings and textiles - the largest repository documenting the Jewish experience outside of Israel. The Center's dynamic program of exhibits, cultural events and intellectual gatherings will interest all who wish to explore the richness of the Jewish past and the promise of the Jewish future.

Jews in America--an Exhibit at the Center for Jewish History

Mendele: Forum for Yiddish Literature and Yiddish Language

Mendele is "a moderated mailing list dedicated to the lively exchange of views, information, news and just about anything else related to the Yiddish language and Yiddish literature."

Spoken Yiddish Language Project

"The Yiddish Atlas Project at Columbia University is "an effort to bring Yiddish information and digitized samples to the Web based on data collected by the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry."

Yamada Language Center for Yiddish or Hebrew

The University of Oregon's Yamada Language Center offers guides to Yiddish and Hebrew websites.

Yiddish Web

A French site (in French) for Yiddish history, literature, language, music, Internet websites, and the Bibliothèque Medem, the largest Yiddish library in Europe.

Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture

The Dora Teitelboim Center is dedicated to advancing Yiddish culture, particularly literature and art. The center hosts writing contexts and art shows. The center publishes bi-lingual (Yiddish/English) translations of works by emerging or overlooked Yiddish authors.

  Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature

The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature aims to "acquaint foreign readers with the best of Modern Hebrew literature".  Includes lists of bibliographies, authors, translators, publications and conferences.

American Jewish Archives

"The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry."  Collection contains archives, manuscripts, near-print materials, photographs, audio and video tapes, microfilm, and genealogical materials.  Searchable on-line catalog. 

Rachel:

Online Catlaog of the European Network of Judaica and Hebraica Libraries (REBJH). It contains approx. 200,000 entries, representing the holdings of these member libraries: Library of the Alliance israélite universelle (AIU), Library of the Séminaire israélite de France (SIF), and Paris Yiddish Center- Medem Library.