Judaica Collection

Judaica Highlights

Katz CAJS/Library Exhibits

Current exhibit: Jews, Commerce, & Culture

Jewish & Other Imperial Cultures in Late Antiquity

Religious Communities in Islamic Empires

Printer, Publisher, Peddler: The Business of the Jewish Book

The Jewish Book: Material Texts and Comparative Contexts

The Meaning of Words: Marcus Jastrow and the Making of Rabbinic Dictionaries

Modern Jewish Literatures: Language, Identity, Writing

Challenging Boundaries: History and Anthropology in Jewish Studies

Tradition and Its Discontents

And We Have Revealed to You...

Modern Jewry and the Arts

Hebraica Veritas?

From Written to Printed Text

Judaica Collections of the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image

Cairo Genizah Fragment Project

Freedman Jewish Music Archive

Livornina

Sabato Morais Ledger

What's New?

Encyclopaedia Judaica 2nd ed., 22v, 2007

Updated edition of this Judaic reference work features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. It includes more than 2,600 brand-new entries, many focusing on gender issues and New World geographic areas of the United States, Canada and Latin America and updates of some 11,000 entries across all topics. The Holocaust segment alone features more than 50 entirely new articles.

Helpful navigational tools include extensive cross-referencing capabilities, a large subject index, and quick references, facilitated by place-name lists, a chronology, lists of newspapers and periodicals, and more than 600 maps, charts, tables, photographs, and illustrations. Among other features making this scholarly work accessible are entry-specific bibliographies to help guide further research.