Judaica Digital Humanities

Thanks to a start-up grant from the Gershwind-Bennett Families, we are transcribing and scanning the correspondence of 19th century Orthodox Jewish teacher, scholar, and publisher Isaac Leeser.

Scribes of the Cairo Geniza was a crowdsourcing project which enabled anyone to help sort and transcribe geniza fragments.

The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica documents commercial, social, religious, political, and cultural ties that connected Jews and the general public from the colonial era through the nineteenth century.

This ledger belonged to Sabato Morais, a Sephardic Jewish leader, Hebraist, poet, historian, lecturer, and teacher.

This extensive illustrated manuscript takes us on a tour through the Holy Land, as it was known, at the end of the 17th century. It describes many sites of Biblical significance, including Damascus and the grave of Mary, and documents the geography, cartography, flora, fauna, history, economy, ethnicities, and languages of the region.

This Omeka bibliographic database draws from Robert Singerman’s Judaica Americana, a bibliography chronicling American Jewish book production until 1900.

Help us transcribe part of the Sabato Morais Collection. 

An international initiative to integrate digital technologies into the way we study early American Jewry. Its primary goal is to create an open access digital repository or “genizah” of physically dispersed primary sources that document the development of Jewish life in the Western hemisphere from the 16th-19th centuries.