Jewish Studies: Online Texts

Over 50,000 out-of-print classical religious Hebrew and Yiddish texts and periodicals. Freely available both for study and downloading. All searching is in Hebrew characters and a keyboard for input is provided. In Hebrew.

Rare printed books from the Valmadonna Library, a collection of Hebrew and Jewish books from India. Includes Hebrew poetry and liturgical history, early imprints from Calcutta, Bombay, Poona and Cochin, illustrated Haggadahs and Judeo-Urdu drama, Baghdadi and Yemenite poetry, Eastern Judeo-Arabic literature Marathi and Malayalam texts and translationsand vernacular writings of the Jews of South Asia.

The Saul Lieberman Institute for Talmudic Research at the Jewish Theological Seminary's Sol and Evelyn Henkin Talmud Text Database is a digitized collection of all primary witnesses to the Babylonian Talmud: first printed editions, full and fragmentary manuscripts (more than half of the known genizah fragments of the Talmud, and a large number of European binding fragments). Searches are in Hebrew only.

Also includes the Talumd and their principal commentaries; works about Jewish law, codes of Jewish law, such as Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch; Midrashim, Zohar, Responsa, etc. Access to the Talmudic Encyclopedia also included. Requires Adobe Flash player. In Hebrew. Click on 'login' on the home page taskbar to get to search screen on the right sidebar to gain access.