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.

A Ledger of Bequests traces the money and property distributed through the will of Judah Touro, the American merchant and philanthropist.

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 bibliographic database is an updated version of Robert Singerman’s seminal Judaica Americana, a bibliography chronicling American Jewish book and newspaper 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.