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Historical and religious contributions of Jewish women from ancient times to more recent.
http://womenshistory.about.com/msubjewish.htm
One of the worlds largest collections of historical materials pertaining to the American Jewish Experience.
http://www.huc.edu/aja
Links to sources of Jewish history on the internet.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html
Encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture covering everything from anti-Semitism to Zionism. Includes a glossary, bibliography, biographies,articles, virtual Israel tour, and original documents.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/
Artifacts, essays, and videos dedicated to the first 350 years of Jewish life in the United States of America.
http://www.jewsinamerica.org
Gateway to Jewish history resources. Contains both print and electronic titles, in addition to a built-in search engine for keyword and title searching.
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/jewishhistory/
An in-depth, illustrated history of Jews in Russia.
http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/
Collection of essays on Jewish history, humanism, and tradition.
http://www.csjo.org/pages/essays.php
Forum for the scholarly and general discussion of Jewish culture and history in Eastern Europe from ancient times to the present.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eejh
Historical and geographical background of the Patriarchs.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/HEBREWS/PATRIARC.HTM
The Jewish presence in Greece goes back to 400 B.C. History of Thessalonica Community. The Rise and Decimation of Greek Judaism.
http://members.tripod.com/gulnbla
A chapter from Dr. Grace Grossman's illustrated book Jewish Expression in Twentieth-Century Fine Arts.
http://www.hlla.com/reference/jewart.html
Article traces the history and social conditions of Jewish people and settlements in the USA through the end of the 19th century.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=32&letter=U
Links indexed and reviewed by an academic team at the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
http://jewishhistory.huji.ac.il/
A virtual tour through five hundred years of Jewish-American history. Features events and people from the Jews who helped Columbus to Barbra Streisand.
http://amuseum.org/jahf/
Letters, diaries, journals and periodicals documenting the Jewish-American experience in the Civil War and the Wild West.
http://jewish-history.com/
Information on Jewish soldiers who served the German, and Austro-Hungarian Empires from 1788 to the Great War.
http://judischequandry.tripod.com
The story of a group of African Jews that left Judea 2,500 years ago.
http://www.haruth.com/JewsLemba.html
Originally published in Yiddish, Kotik's memoirs describe Jewish life in late Tsarist Russia.
http://www.onforeignsoil.com/kotik.htm
Archival material from the Medici archives dealing with Jewish history in Florence.
http://www.medici.org/jewish/
Electronic archive and search engine of the 19th century Jewish-American journal, published in Philadelphia by Isaac Leeser from 1843-1868.
http://theoccident.com/
Kevin Alan Brook reassesses arguments about Semitic vs. Turkic ancestry and finds traces of both.
http://www.khazaria.com/khazar-diaspora.html
Contains information about the diaspora, Kerala Jews, and assorted Judaic precepts.
http://www.shalom2.20m.com/
This site explores the connection between the Portuguese and Jewish people telling the story of the shared history.
http://www.saudades.org
History of the Spanish Inquisition, highlighting Catholic responsibility.
http://www.geocities.com/iberianinquisition/
The story of Chiune Sugihara, an obscure World War II diplomat who saved more than 10,000 Jews.
http://www.rongreene.com/Sug.html
Daily historical facts available online and in downloadable word format. Also with a forum. Hebrew and English.
http://www.jewishistorydaf.org/EngIndex.asp
Essay on the Khazarian Jews and their contributions to European Jewry.
http://www.imninalu.net/Khazars.htm