American Jewish Historical Society
Founded in 1892, the mission of the American Jewish Historical
Society is to foster awareness and appreciation of the American
Jewish heritage and to serve as a national scholarly resource
for research through the collection, preservation and dissemination
of materials relating to American Jewish history.
 http://www.ajhs.org/
Bukharian Global Jewish Portal
BJEWS.COM is the largest online community of Bukharian Jews
from around the world.
http://www.bjews.com/index.php
Center for Jewish History
The Center for Jewish History emerged from a vision
of a unique central repository for the cultural and historical
legacy of the Jewish people. The Center embodies the unique
partnership of five major institutions of Jewish scholarship,
history and art: American Jewish Historical Society, American
Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University
Museum and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The Center
will serve the worldwide academic and general communities
with combined holdings of approximately 100 million archival
documents, a half million books, and thousands of photographs,
artifacts, paintings and textiles - the largest repository
documenting the Jewish experience outside of Israel. The Center's
dynamic program of exhibits, cultural events and intellectual
gatherings will interest all who wish to explore the richness
of the Jewish past and the promise of the Jewish future.
http://www.cjh.org
The David Cardozo Academy
The Cardozo Academy is an adult education institute
that encourages new thinking about Judaism. With a keen eye
on the latest developments in intellectual discourse and general
culture, the Academy trains future rabbis, educators and community
leaders to communicate and develop the Jewish tradition in
the language of the new millennium.
http://www.cardozoschool.org
European Sephardic Institute
In the frame of safeguarding and the transmission
of the Sephardic memory, the European Sephardic Institute
has as a primary vocation to collect, centralize, analyze
and put at the disposal of everybody, written, sound and visual
documents that can witness the huge richness of the different
Sephardic communities that have participated in a large way
to the culture of the different countries for which they were
integrated.
http://www.sefarad.org
Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews
A multimedia archive of ballads and other oral literature
in Judeo-Spanish collected from 1957 to 1993 by Samuel G.
Armistead (University of California, Davis), the late Joseph
H. Silverman (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Israel
J. Katz.
http://www.sephardifolklit.org/flsj
Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies
and Culture
For nearly 40 years the Foundation has been dedicated to preserving
and promoting the complex and centuries-old culture of the
Sephardic communities of Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, Europe
and the U.S. Emigration, and the devastation of the Holocaust,
have combined to weaken historic communities which had resisted
assimilation, where Ladino, the Sephardic language, was used
continuously and unique cultural traditions were practiced.
http://www.sephardicstudies.org
Gomez Mill House
The cornerstone of the Jewish pioneer experience
in America lies along the Hudson River five miles north of
Newburgh, New York. Gomez Mill House, one of the oldest continuously
lived in residences in the United States, is the oldest surviving
Jewish homestead in North America.
http://www.gomez.org
Historical Society of the Jews from Egypt
This site is designed to gather, and provide historical and
current information on the Jews From Egypt, one of the most
ancient established societies in the world. We will attempt
to cover the period from Joseph Saadia el Fayoumi (Saadia
Gaon) to the present day.
http://www.hsje.org
International Association of Jews from Egypt
Established to enable a collective history of the
Egyptian Jewish community and to establish contacts among
Jews from Egypt currently residing all over the world.
www.iajegypt.org
JewishGen SephardicSig
A place where all researchers of Sephardic genealogy and history
are welcome to share.
http://www.jewishgen.org/sefardsig
Jewish National Fund
Is the caretaker of the land of Israel, on behalf
of its owners - Jewish People everywhere.
http://www.jnf.org/site/PageServer
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Language
Information about Ladino, and information in Ladino.
http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Spanish-Ladino/index.html
Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum
A small synagogue in New York City's Chinatown is reaching
out to make people aware of its congregation's heritage through
a museum that familiarizes people with its customs and history.
http://www.kkjsm.org
The Leo Baeck Institute
Is a research, exhibition, and lecture center whose
library and archives offer the most comprehensive documentation
for the study of German Jewish history.
http://www.lbi.org
JIMENA
Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa
mission is to advocate and educate about the history and plight
of the Jews indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa.
http://www.jimena-justice.org/index.htm
Midrash Ben Ish Hai
Midrash BEN ISH HAI is named after one of the works of Hakham
Yoseph Hayyim of Babylon. Its goal is to restore the Sephardi
heritage and create leaders and Torah scholars who will lead
our people into the coming century. It has additionally evolved
into an important resource for Ashkenazim and Sephardim alike
who are interested in customs, traditions and halakhoth.
http://www.midrash.org
Saudades
Portuguese Sephardic History.
http://www.saudades.org
The Scribe - Journal of Babylonian Jewry. Published
by the Exilarch’s Foundation.
www.scribe1.com
Sephardic Genealogy Resources
http://www.orthohelp.com/geneal/sefardim.htm
Sephardic Jews during the Holocaust
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006802
Sephardim.com
A research tool for Sephardic genealogy and Jewish genealogy.
http://www.sephardim.com
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
The nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution,
the national museum of the United States. We are dedicated
to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding
among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and
dissemination of sound.
http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.html
The Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies
Fosters research and networking of information and ideas into
the contemporary development of Crypto Jews of Iberian origins.
Membership is open to anyone who is interested in this area.
This website is being updated regularly with articles from
HaLapid, our quarterly publication and announcements about
upcoming events.
http://www.cryptojews.com
S.T.A.R. Sephardic Tradition and Recreation
Is a thriving Jewish youth organization serving the Jewish
Community in the Los Angeles area. Events range from elaborate
Shabbatons and field trips to sporting events and educational
programs
http://www.lastar.org/
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: the Holocaust in Greece
(online exhibit)
http://www.ushmm.org/greece/eng/salonika.htm
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Poland as the Yiddish Scientific
Institute and headquartered in New York since 1940, YIVO is
devoted to the history, society, and culture of Ashkenazic
Jewry, and the influence of that culture as it has developed
in the Americas. As the only pre-Holocaust scholarly institution
to transfer its mission to the United States, YIVO is the
preeminent center for the study of East European Jewry and
Yiddish language, literature, and folklore.
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/
Yeshiva University Museum
Since its founding in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum’s
changing exhibits have celebrated the culturally diverse intellectual
and artistic achievements of 3,000 years of Jewish experience.
The Museum provides a window into Jewish culture around the
world and throughout history through its acclaimed multi-disciplinary
exhibitions and award-winning publications. By educating audiences
of all ages with dynamic interpretations of Jewish life, past
and present, along with wide-ranging cultural offerings and
programs, the Museum attracts young and old, Jewish and non-Jewish
audiences
http://www.yumuseum.org
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