by Chris Slater | Sep 29, 2015
For nearly thirty years the Center for Jewish Art, a research institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has carried out a comprehensive documentation program of the visual cultural heritage of the Jewish people. Through detailed descriptions and photography by...
by Chris Slater | Sep 29, 2015
The University Archives documents the history of the University, particularly the Office of the President and the Berkeley campus, through the collecting of University publications and of records of enduring historical interest. The collection is strong in student...
by Chris Slater | Sep 29, 2015
The Modern Jewish Culture Working Group of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities fulfills the need for a missing disciplinary focus on the cultures of the Jewish Diaspora in modern times at UC Berkeley. The Working Group meets at and is administered through...
by Chris Slater | Sep 28, 2015
Mechon Mamre, or “The Mamre Institute,” makes available and searchable online a variety of classic Jewish texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and in translation. Among these texts are the Hebrew Bible, Maimonides’ Mishne torah, the Mishnah and the Talmud. The...
by Chris Slater | Sep 28, 2015
The National Library of Israel is pleased to announce it has purchased the distribution rights to the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 from CDI Systems, which distributed the database in recent years. The existing data is currently being converted to the...
