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OTHER USEFUL LINKS
AJC Archives
View TV and films, listen to radio, search archive for American Jewish history of the past century
Daf L'tarbut Yehudit
(
דף לתרבות יהודית
)
Articles on various topics of Jewish interest (searchable in Hebrew)
Hebrew Books
Full-text Hebrew books and journals; searchable by title, author, and subject.
Hebrew Literature
Full-text Hebrew poems and stories by well-known authors
Herzog Center
Primary documents on Israel history
Jewish Biographies
brief introductions to famous Jewish leaders
Jewish Calendar
(searchable)
Jewish War Veterans of the United States
Knesset
webpage
Statistics and documents pertaining to the Legislature of the State of Israel
Mechon Mamre
Tanakh
in Hebrew/English
Mishna
in Hebrew
Tosefta
in Hebrew
Rambam Mishna Torah
in Hebrew
Talmud Bavli
in Hebrew
Talmud Yerushalmi
in Hebrew
Medical Ethics and Halacha
Articles from leading
poskim
Melingo
Comprehensive Hebrew/English/Hebrew dictionary
Norman Lamm Archives
Searchable database of
drashot
of Rabbi Lamm
One Hundred Years of Zionism
Brief biographies of people connected with Zionism and the State of Israel
RAMBI
Searchable index of articles on Jewish Studies
Remember
Holocaust related site
Dr. Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medical-Halachic Research
Searchable articles covering the halachic issues that pertain to medical ethics.
Sharei Shechem
Mesilat Yesharim
(Hebrew/English/Russian)
Pirkei Avot
(English)
The Kuzari
(English)
Book of the Maccabees
(English)
Book of
Yehudit
(English)
Tanya
(English)
Megilat Ta'anit
(Hebrew)
Snunit
Searchable database of
Tanakh
,
Mishnah
,
Gemara
(
Bavli
and
Yerushalmi
),
Mishna Torah L'haRambam
, and
Tosefta
in full text
Survivors of the
Shoah
Visual History Foundation
Download or stream videos about Holocaust
"The Meaning of Words: Marcus Jastrow and the Making of Rabbinic Dictionaries"
An exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Library
www.jbooks.com
Review journal of Jewish books
Yad Vashem
Extensive resources from the World Center for Holocaust Research, Education, Documentation and Commemoration (located in Jerusalem)
answers.com
Dictionary, encyclopedia, general research etc.
Google Books
Full text and index search capability for millions of books online.
Hathi Trust
Full text and index search capability for millions of books online.
homeworknyc.org
24/7 one-on-one homework help and more.
Infomine
Scholarly Internet research in various subjects from University of California.
Life Magazine photo archive
Millions of searchable images
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Searchable art works
New York Public Library databases
Accessible from home with your NYC public library card.
Project Gutenberg
The first producer of free ebooks. Over 42,000 free ebooks, including ePub books and Kindle books. Download them or read them online.
The Full Universal Currency Converter
Calculates live currency and foreign exchange rates.
Turning the Pages
Digitized books from the British Library (uses the
Shockwave
plug-in, which can be downloaded from the
Adobe website
)
Unit Converter
Converts units of Angle, Area, Bits & Bytes, Density, Electric Current, Energy, Force, Fuel Consumption, Length, Mass, Power, Pressure, Speed, Temperature, Time, and Volume. Converts to and from metric too!
U.S. Census Bureau's
American FactFinder
Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic information. Search for various places by city, town, state, zip code.
World Atlas
Latitude and longitude, maps, demographic information, and much more
World Wind
(from NASA)
Virtually visit any place in the world and see how it looks from space in 3D.
WEB EVALUATION: RESOURCES
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
(resource from the University of New Mexico)
Teaching undergrads WEB evaluation: A guide for library instruction
(American Library Association)