Online Teaching Resources
During the pandemic, BIAJS put together a preliminary list of online resources that colleagues use for teaching.
Resource lists:
EAJS Digital Forum:
https://www.eurojewishstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/eajs-resources-17-09-07.pdf
Parkes Library resource list: http://library.soton.ac.uk/c.php?g=131328&p=858724
Columbia resource list: https://guides.library.columbia.edu/c.php?g=201082&p=1438669
Berkeley resource list: https://jewishstudies.berkeley.edu/affiliates-resources/jewish-studies-resources/
L’Université en ligne du Judaïsme: http://universitedujudaisme.akadem.org/
General:
Jewish Women’s Archive: https://jwa.org/
Centropa: https://www.centropa.org/cinema-centropa
European Jewish Research Archive: https://jpr.org.uk/archive
H-Judaic, Jewish Studies Network: https://networks.h-net.org/h-judaic
RAMBI, index of Jewish studies articles:
Judaica Europeana museum and library network: http://www.jhn.ngo/judaica-europeana-archive/
Sefaria: A Living Library of Jewish Texts: https://www.sefaria.org/
Maps of Byzantine Jewry: http://www.byzantinejewry.net/
Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations: Between Exclusion and Embrace. An Online Teaching Resource: https://jnjr.div.ed.ac.uk
50 Jewish Objects Artwork: http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/50-jewish-objects-artwork/
Darwin’s Jews Reader: http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/darwins-jews-online-reader/
Manchester and Zionism: The Community, the University and the State of Israel – An Online Exhibition http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/manchester-and-zionism/
Sherman Lectures in Jewish Studies
Amy-Jill Levine – Jesus, Judaism and Christianity: Old Prejudices and New Possibilities: http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/sherman-lectures-2015/
Miri Rubin – Thinking about Jews in Medieval Europe: Explorations with Text, Images and Sounds: http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/sherman-lectures-2014/
Derek Penslar – What is Israel Studies?: http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/sherman-lectures-2013/
Philip Alexander – The Messianic Idea in Judaism Revisited: http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/sherman-lectures-2012/
Germany
Key Documents of German-Jewish History ( bilingual—German/English—digital source edition that includes online exhibitions and teaching resources): https://jewish-history-online.net/
Digital image database on Jewish history (in German): https://www.bilddatenbank-juedische-geschichte.de/
“Das Jüdische Hamburg” – a historical reference book on Jewish history in Hamburg (in German): http://www.dasjuedischehamburg.de/
“Geschichtomat” – project for schools on Jewish history and culture in Hamburg (in German): https://www.geschichtomat.de/
Eastern Europe:
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe: https://yivoencyclopedia.org/default.aspx
Yiddish:
In Geveb, online journal of Yiddish studies: https://ingeveb.org/
Yiddish Book Centre: https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/ (includes Steven Spielberg Digital
Yiddish Library, Frances Brandt online Yiddish audio archive, Wexler oral history project, etc)
Holocaust:
Wiener Library lectures: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk3ppeeg3_yn2nnd9e92OpA/featured
Yad Vashem: https://www.yadvashem.org
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: https://www.ushmm.org
Stumbling Stones in Hamburg – biographical search for traces: https://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/en.php?&LANGUAGE=EN&MAIN_ID=25
Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies
Dina Porat – The Holocaust in political life: Israel and Europe in comparison: http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/bogdanow-lectures-2020/
Tony Kushner – Illegality: Jews and Other Humans: http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/bogdanow-lectures-2019/
Jan Grabowski – Bystanders and the Holocaust in Poland: http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/bogdanow-lectures-2018/
Vicki Barnett – The Church and the Holocaust: http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/bogdanow-lectures-2017/
Michael Marrus – Lessons of the Holocaust: http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/bogdanow-lectures-2016/
Christopher Browning – Agency in the Holocaust: Perpetrators, Survivors, Rescuers: http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/bogdanow-lectures-2015/
Individuals:
Resources for teaching on Jewish artist Samuel Bak:
https://www.puckergallery.com/artists#/samuel-bak/
https://www.kunst-archive.net/en/wvz/samuel_bak/works
Radio:
The Talmud: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044j7pd
Josephus: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vfdzl
Maimonides: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yjqz3
Judas Maccabeus: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017cjm8
Moses Mendelssohn:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01djnxx
Nine modern Jewish philosophers:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/topics/Jewish_philosophers
The Story of the Talmud: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b036vrsq
Jewish History Matters: https://www.jewishhistory.fm/
Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies Seminars
Roman Vater – National alternatives to Zionism: https://youtu.be/gXJ3p2tMdOI
Alan Craig – EU-Israel Relations: https://youtu.be/WL8iBvwe67E
Dominique Bourel – From Kassa to Manchester and Forward: Alexander Altmann and the Mendelssohn Forschung: https://youtu.be/KFWEQwerl_I
Yohai Hakak – Jewish-Arab Couples in Contemporary Israel: https://youtu.be/7BmMQ_5Nda4
Websites of Individual Scholars
‘A wide range of lectures and resources on ancient and medieval Judaism from Professor Gary Rendsburg (Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences): https://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/people/core-faculty/gary-a-rendsburg’.