Research Guides: Judaic Studies: Find Primary Sources

Primary Sources at Gelman Library

Judaica and Hebraica Special Collections
Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
A database of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Kiev Family Trust Graphic Arts Collection,1493-1969
Has prints, posters, cartoons, postcards and other Judaica, primarily related to antisemitism
Kiev Family Trust Pamphlet Collection
Contains pamphlets concerning antisemitism and sermons from prominent European and American rabbis.
Kiev Judaica Collection
The I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection has numerous books, pamphlets, and graphic materials related to the Holocaust. One type of book that may be useful are yizkor books. These are memorial books that were published by Holocaust survivors commemorating their destroyed towns and those who died there. Many are in foreign languages, but some have English translations as well and photos/drawings that can be easily interpreted.
Maps of the Holy Land collection, 1590-1850
Includes maps of the Middle East created by such famous cartographers as Gerhard Mercator, Sebastian Münster, Christian von Adrichem, and Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville.

Minorities in the Middle East : Jewish communities in Arab countries,
This six-volume Cambridge Archive Editions set covers the arrangements and conditions for Jewish communities living under Islam, throughout the Arab world, from 1840 to 1974. Although they cover more than 100 years the papers do not form a continuous record of events but rather provide a series of snapshots of history.

William R. Perl Collection
Perl rescued an estimated forty thousand European Jews from annihilation by the Nazis by helping them illegally immigrate to Mandatory Palestine..
Eyewitness Stories from Inside the Massacre
Provides eyewitness testimonies of the massacre of October 7, 2023 by Hamas.

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum:
The Collections Division of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum consists of eight branches: Archives, Art and Artifacts, Film and Video, Music, Oral History, Photo Archives, Collections Management, and Conservation. The Archives Branch of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories of Holocaust-related records. The collection, which consists of nearly 42 million pages of records

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