Jewish Studies Research Guide

The National Library of Israel (NLI) is the leading academic research library in the state of Israel. It holds unique manuscript and archival collections which supplement the library collections. Here you can search an extensive collection of digitized manuscripts.

Requires registration for a free preview of the collection. Full text of the Bible and its major commentaries, the Babylonian Talmud with Rashi's commentary and Tosafot, the Jerusalem Talmud, the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides, Shulchan Aruch with commentaries, Midrashim, hundreds of books of Responsa, and the Talmudic Encyclopedia.

Free registration is required. This site preserves images of all the Genizah fragments accompanied by extensive information: Identifications, catalog records, bibliographic data, transcriptions, translations etc.

Scribes of the Cairo Geniza is a crowdsourcing project to transcribe Cairo Geniza fragments. With an in-kind grant from the Zooniverse, the largest crowdsourcing platform in the world, along with institutional and image partners from The University of Pennsylvania Libraries, The Princeton Geniza Lab, The e-Lijah Lab and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of the Cairo Genizah at the University of Haifa, the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library, The University of Manchester Library, and The Bodleian Libraries at University of Oxford.

A search within Virgo of titles relating to Cairo Geniza.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archive contains information about more than 23 million documents, photographs, recordings, posters, and films in the Archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The YIVO Archives’ multilingual collections reflect the life and culture of Jews around the world and is also one of the world's foremost resources for the study of East European Jewry, Yiddish literature and language, the Holocaust, and the American Jewish immigrant experience. More information

A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica
Catalog of Catalogs documents nearly 2,300 temporary exhibition catalogs, 1876-2018, that include objects of Judaica. It provides highly-detailed indices of these publications' subjects, exhibited objects and geographical foci.