Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies - Links

The Library is open to UPenn Faculty, Students, and Employees.
General Public Admitted by Prior Appointment Only.
Patrons must present a photo ID when registering to use the Library.
For additional information, or to make an appointment please call: (215) 238-1290.

• Collections at the Library at the Katz CAJS - General, Rare Books, Manuscripts, Microforms, Electronic resources/CD-ROMS
• Penn Library at 250: The Legacy of Dropsie College and Its Library
• Archival Collections at CAJS - links to select online finding aids.
• Incunabula at CAJS
• Charter of Toleration: The "Livornina", 1593 - from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (SCETI)
• Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive Catalogue (SCETI)

• Franklin
• Other Library Catalogs
• RAMBI - Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
• Israel Library Network Sites and Web Catalogues
• SCETI - Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image

• Access and Hours
• Accommodations when visiting Philadelphia
• Borrowing Policies
• A Brief History of the Center and Library
• Katz CAJS Fellows Information Page
• Calendar
• Directions
• Exhibits - Online CAJS Library Exhibitions
• Library Staff
• Map of the Historic District, where the Library is located

• Academic and Library Home Pages
• The Arts: Fine, Music, Performing, Cinema
• Bibliographies and Studies
• Bookdealers and Multimedia Vendors
• Cultures, Communities, and Languages
• The Dropsie Genizah Collection
  Selected Transcriptions (Princeton Geniza Project)
• Electronic Journals
• Electronic News, Magazines, and Media
• Electronic Texts
• Funding Sources for Judaic Studies: Grants, Fellowships, Scholarships, Foundations
• Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies and Issues (includes important links regarding domestic and spousal violence)
• Hebrew Abbreviations, published in Judaica Librarianship (Princeton University Library)
• Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity (Jay C. Treat, SAS Computing, UPenn)
• Listservs, Discussion Lists & Blogs In Judaic Studies
• Museums and Virtual Exhibits
• NACO Hebraica Funnel - Hebraica Web Resources (Stanford/LOC)
• Other Jewish Links and Resources (Directories, Kashrut, Vendors)
• Penn's Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS): Muslim, Christian, & Jewish Relations in the Middle East
• Publishers of Books Related to Jewish Studies - The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, Hebrew University
• Research Guide to Judaic Studies
• Syllabi - Online Judaic and Cognate Studies Course Descriptions and Outlines

• Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
• Hillel at Penn
• Jewish Quarterly Review
  The contents of JQR, from 1889 to 1995 are indexed on Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) (Use Restricted to: Penn Faculty, Students and Staff only).
  JQR issues from 1966 to present are indexed on RAMBI (public access).
Full text of JQR can be found on JSTOR (Use Restricted to: Penn Faculty, Students and Staff only).

• Jewish Studies Program at Penn
• Penn/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project
• Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive
• Yiddish Language and Literature at Penn
• Jewish Culture and Contexts Publication Series

• American Academy for Jewish Research
• Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education - Central source of Jewish educational endeavors in Greater Philadelphia
• Congregation Beth Ahavah, serving the Philadelphia and the greater Delaware Valley area's gay, lesbian, and bisexual Jewish community
• Congregation Mikveh Israel
• Congregation Rodeph Shalom
• Drexel University Judaic Studies Program
• Gratz College
• The Gershman Y (YM/YWHA)
• Harry D. Boonin's Jewish Philadelphia
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania (formerly Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies)
• J-BaGel - Philadelphia area Jewish student organization serving the gay, lesbian, and bisexual community.
• Jewish Exponent
• Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Philadelphia
• Jewish Mount Airy
• Kehilat HaNahar - A Delaware Valley Reconstructionist congregation serving Bucks County
• National Museum of American Jewish History
• Pennsylvania Holocaust Education Task Force
• Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL)
• Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center
• Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
• P'nai Or Philadelphia - Jewish Renewal community in Mt Airy, Philadelphia, member of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal
• The Society Hill Synagogue of Philadelphia
• Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel
• Temple University - Feinstein Center for American Jewish History