Primary Sources
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Digital Yiddish Library (Yiddish Book Center)
More than 11,000 titles available online in the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library. The comprehensive collection includes works of fiction, memoirs, poetry, plays, short stories, science manuals, cookbooks, primers, and more, by the most renowned Yiddish authors and lesser-known writers alike.
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonials
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Testimonies from individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, produced in cooperation with thirty-six affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel.
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Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive
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Began as the major video repository for Holocaust testimonies; now includes eye-witness accounts from the Armenian Genocide; 1937 Nanjing Massacre; Cambodian Genocide (1975-1979); Guatemalan Genocide (1978-1983); 1994 genocide in Rwanda; plus ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic & South Sudan. Also includes testimonies about contemporary acts of violence against Jews. Fully searchable.
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Jerusalem Post 1932-2008 [ProQuest]
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Covers Israel, the Middle East, and the international Jewish community. Includes the earlier title, The Palestine Post.
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Jewish Advocate [ProQuest]
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Digitized issues of The Jewish Advocate for the period 1905-1990.
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Sefaria
Sefaria is home to 3,000 years of Jewish texts. Offering free access to texts, translations, and commentaries so that everyone can participate in the ongoing process of studying, interpreting, and creating Torah.
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