Judaic Studies
Provides recommended resources for Judaic Studies and highlights Judaica reference and special materials at the U-M Library and beyond.
- Starting points
- Judaica Special Collections
- Antisemitism / Judenfrage
- Art
- Bible
- Black Jews / Jews & Blacks
- Comics & Cartoonists
- Film / Cinema & Television
- Food / Cookbooks
- Genealogy
- Gender & Sexuality
- Holocaust
- Humor
- Judeo-Arabic
- Kabbalah
- Ladino / Sephardim
- Maps
- Michigan Jewry
- Mizrahim
- Modern Hebrew
- Music
- Photography
- Sports
- Talmud & Rabbinics
- Yiddish
- Related research guides
Online resources
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Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive (DJSA)Established in 2002 as a repository of sound recordings for researchers and students. If you are not on campus at Dartmouth College, you will need to have a user account. To register you will need to demonstrate a legitimate scholarly or research purpose.
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European Institute of Jewish Music (IEMJ)The first center dedicated to the documentation and the resources pertaining to Jewish music in Europe, the IEMJ was created in 2006 by the French Judaism Foundation, the Yuval association and the Henriette Halphen Foundation.
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Freedman Jewish Sound Archive (University of Pennsylvania)Contains over 4,000 recordings, primarily in Yiddish and Hebrew.
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Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)An academic institution dedicated to the documentation, research, and publication of scholarly materials about music conceived, performed, and consumed within Jewish social frameworks in the past and present.
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Mandell German Jewish Music CollectionThe music collection curated by Eric Mandell (1902–1988) unites sheet music, books, and catalogs covering the span of Jewish musical history, with an emphasis on pre-war European liturgical and folk music
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Medici.tvThe largest online collection of classical music, operas and ballets in the world. Discover live broadcasts from prestigious venues and archived concerts, artist portraits, documentaries, and education programs. Compare different interpretations of the same work and explore composers, artists, periods, and genres.
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Milken Archive of Jewish MusicOne of the largest collection of American Jewish music ever assembled, consisting of more than 700 recorded works.
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Naxos Music LibraryAccess provided to U-M affiliates + guests in U-M libraries. The world's largest online classical music library. It offers streaming access to more than 150,000 CDs with over two million tracks, including both standard and rare repertoire.
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Recorded Sound Archives (Florida Atlantic University)Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.
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ZemereshetA website run by advocates of the early Hebrew folksong. Their goal is to save from extinction songs written in Hebrew, from the early stages of Zionism up until the establishment of Israel, and to make these songs openly accessible to the public.
Exhibits
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Ladino Music Today as a Tool of Storytelling and PreservationAn U-M Library online exhibit. Curated by Laurel Comiter, Gabriel Mordoch, and Gabriel Duque.
Last Updated: Dec 17, 2025 2:56 PM
Subjects: Humanities, International Studies, Social Sciences
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