Web Sites and Institutions

INTERNATIONAL (NON-COUNTRY SPECIFIC)

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
The JDC (JOINT), the Jewish relief agency founded in 1914, is putting its vast Archives online as a searchable database

Association of European Jewish Museums

The Association’s web site has links to Jewish museums in 20 countries.

The Association for Gravestone Studies

Bet Hatfefutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People
The museum’s wide-ranging web site has extensive links and databases on Jewish heritage sites, Jewish communities worldwide, synagogues, genealogy, and much more.

The Center for Jewish Art
Activities include documentation, research, education and publishing. The CJA’s major project is the Jerusalem Index of Jewish Art, an iconographical Jewish art database.

Center for Jewish History
The Center for Jewish History, located in New York, is the home of five Jewish institutions dedicated to history, culture, and art. It is comprised of:

The American Jewish Historical Society

The American Sephardi Federation

The Leo Baeck Institute

The Yeshiva University Museum

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Center for Jewish History — Digital Collections

Access to a variety of digital objects, including rare books, children’s books, personal letters, official decrees, maps, memoirs, posters, photographs, scrapbooks, oral histories, finding aids, disserations, and more.

Central Archives of the Jewish People

Giv’at Ram Campus, Hebrew University, Jerusalem P.O.B. 39077

Jerusalem 91390

Tel. +972 2 6586249

Email: archives@vms.huji.ac.il

Established in 1939, the Archive holds the archives of hundreds of Jewish communities and local, national and international Jewish organizations, as well as the collections of a number of prominent individuals. They constitute the most extensive collection of documents, pinkassim (registers) and other records of Jewish history from the Middle Ages to the present day.

CENTROPA: Connecting the World to the Lands of Jewish Heritage
Includes photographs, links, interviews, articles, recipes, films, travel information, educations material. Operated by the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation.

European Center for Jewish Music
An institute at the Hanover, Germany University of Music, Drama and Media

European Sephardic Institute

European Sites of Remembrance — Information Portal
An interactive web site with links to numerous Holocaust memorial sites, museums and related places in Europe, accessible via an ineractive map. It is is a project of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Foundation and forms part of the exhibition of the Information Center under the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.

Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture

Many links and online resources.

Google Art Project
Digitlized collections from a variety of international museums, including several with Jewish content.

Haruth: All Things Jewish (lots of links)

HaChayim HaYehudim Jewish Photo Library
Jono David’s collection of thousands of photographs of Jewish heritage sites, Holocaust memorials, Judaica and other images related to Jewish culture.

International Survey of Jewish Monuments
Pioneering organization devoted to Jewish built heritage. The site includes the archives of its one-time periodical, the Jewish Heritage Report.

Jewish Music Web Center

Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) News Archive
JTA has digitized its news archive, from 1917 onwards, as a searchable database. There are numerous articles about Jewish heritage sites

Jewish Virtual History Tour (Western Europe)

Jewish Virtual Library
A comprehensive online Jewish site, with many links and articles about specific countries.

Judaica Europeana

An ever-growing online database of Jewish artifacts and cultural heritage. Judaica Europeana is one of a series of initiatives supported by the European Commission’s eContentplus programme that harvest and aggregate content for EUROPEANA, Europe’s museums, libraries and archives online.

Judaica Europeana — Virtual Exhibitions Online

Lo-Tishkach – European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative
Founded in 2006 as a joint project of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Among its aims is to compile a comprehensive publicly-accessible database of all Jewish burial grounds in Europe — more than 9,000 cemeteries and mass graves. The Lo Tishkach project is also producing a compendium of the different national and international laws and practices affecting these sites.

Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire

Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Study

Faculty of Divinity

West Road   Cambridge CB3 9BS England

Email: byzantium@divinity.cam.ac.uk
An ambitious project to map the Jewish presence in the former Byzantine Empire and collate, digitize and publish physical and archival information.

Museum of Family History
Wide-ranging resources and online exhibitions, including a photographic exhibition of World Holocaust Memorials (including 19 European countries)

Synagogue Images and Jewish Communal History in Many Countries (Edward Victor Collection)
Photographs of synagogues and images of synagogues on stamps and postcards in many countries, combined with historical background and description. Edward Victor donated his collection to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust but maintains a web site with extensive material.

Synagogues360
Interactive, 360-degree panoramic images of synagogues in Europe and elsewhere in the world.

U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad

1400 K Street, NW-Ste. 401 ,Washington, DC 20005

Tel: (202) 254-3824, Fax: (202) 254-3934

Email: uscommission@heritageabroad.gov

An independent agency of the U.S. Government that aims to (1) identify and report on cemeteries, monuments, and historic buildings in Eastern and Central Europe that are associated with the heritage of U.S. citizens, particularly endangered properties, and (2) obtain, in cooperation with the Department of State, assurances from the governments of the region that the properties will be protected and preserved. The commission has overseen ground-breaking inventory surveys of Jewish heritage sites in several countries that can be accessed here: http://heritageabroad.gov/Reports.aspx It also organizes or oversees projects that help restore, preserve, and memorialize cultural heritage properties, including Jewish cemeteries, monuments and historic buildings.

World Monuments Fund

350 Fifth Avenue , Suite 2412, New York, NY 10118

Tel: 646-424-9594,Fax: 646-424-9593, Email: wmf@wmf.org

Yad Vashem
World center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust.

Yerusha: Jewish Archives Europe

A sister project to Jewish Heritage Europe of the Rothschild Roundation (Hanadiv) Europe

YIVO Encyclopedia
Authoritative online encyclopedia of Jewish history, culture and heritage in (mainly) Eastern Europe.