Jewish Studies: Digital Collections
Digital Collections - University of Iowa Access
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Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new windowConfidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 covers the whole of modern British involvement in North Africa and the Middle East: from the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Documents range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties.
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Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 This link opens in a new windowThis collection is an essential resource for understanding the events in the Middle East during the 1970s. It addresses the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of every major Middle East power. Conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War and the Iranian Revolution are examined in detail, as are the military interventions and peace negotiations carried out by regional and foreign powers like the United States and Russia.
Utilizing the significant collection of diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles, students and researchers can explore a decade characterised by conflict. -
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: the West’s response to Jewish emigration. This link opens in a new windowThe Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR) was organized in London in August 1938 as a result of the Evian Conference of July 1938, which had been called by President Roosevelt to consider the problem of racial, religious, and political refugees from central Europe.
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Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954 This link opens in a new windowJewish Life in America will enable you to explore the history of Jewish communities in America from the arrival of the first Jews in the 17th century right through to the mid-20th century. This rich collection brings to life the communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture, whilst tracing Jewish involvement in the political life of American society as a whole.
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Middle East and North Africa: Global Perspectives, 1958-1994 This link opens in a new windowOffers fresh insight into one of the world’s most complex and volatile regions. It is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand the complex factors that gave rise to modern terrorist organizations as well as regional civil wars, revolutions, border issues and more
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U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009 This link opens in a new windowThis comprehensive document set sheds light on the U.S. intelligence community’s spying and analytic efforts in the Arab world, including the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa. It covers the time period from the end of World War II to the present day, up until the 2002-2003 Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) assessments, the Global War on Terror, the Iraq War, and Iran’s nuclear program.
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Visual history archive. This link opens in a new windowUSC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979, the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1983, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, and anti-Rohingya mass violence. It also includes testimonies about contemporary acts of violence against Jews.
Digital Collections - Open Access
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American Jewish History Historical Society Digital CollectionsOver the course of the four year project, thousands of pages and unique objects were digitized and made available online, everything from oral histories interviews to photographs to campaign radio spots to scrapbooks. Each digitized item has been assigned subject headings and described to include date, when known, the name of the affiliated agency or event, as well as recognizable staff, public figures, and officers. Many of the digitized items were arranged into collections that can be further explored by using the search bar in the top right corner, “Search within these results.”
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Jewish Culture and Traditions: Resources in the American Folklife Center (Library of Congress)The Library of Congress has been digitizing unique primary source collection materials since the 1990s. The following selection of digital collections focus on Jewish, Hebrew, and Yiddish materials, as documented in a number of the Center's field survey and occupational folklife collections.
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Judaica Digital Collection (Harvard University)The Harvard Judaica Collection documents the life and culture of the Jewish people throughout history — in all places, all languages, and all formats — with particular comprehensive coverage of life and culture in the State of Israel.
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The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center Digital Library and ArchivesThe Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center (JHC) at American Ancestors is dedicated to preserving New England Jewish history, exploring Jewish heritage, and advancing understanding of the American Jewish experience for audiences of all backgrounds. More than 700,000 documents from the collections have been digitized and are fully searchable online in the JHC's Digital Archive.
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Yad Vashem Digital CollectionsContains documents, photographs, testimonies, etc. related to the Holocaust.
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YIVO Archives Digital ResourcesThe world's most comprehensive resource on Eastern European Jewish history and culture and over 1,000 digitized images, documents, sound clips, and videos from YIVO's collections.