Sosnick Library
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Jewish Book Sources PJ Library sends free Jewish children's books to families every month. They also have a podcast that takes a classic Jewish folk tale and gives it a modern twist. The Association of Jewish Libraries promotes Jewish literacy through enhancement of libraries and library resources. The AJL also has a search function to find Jewish books by “Values” from Activism to Worshipping Idols with a filter by age. And a link to the Sydney Taylor book award, presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience. The Jewish Book Council, founded in 1944, is the longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature. They also have a reading list for adults and children. Tablet Magazine children’s book awards Jewish children’s book news and reviews
Podcasts The Book of Life: A podcast about Jewish books Genealogy: In addition to the many general sites, like ancestry.com, Family Search and My Heritage, there are many specifically Jewish sites available for family history research. (The library contains a small collection of books on genealogy as well) JewishGen - Jewish Genealogy One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse Jewish Records Indexing Poland - https://jri-poland.org/ Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) - http://genealogy.org.il/ Ellis Island Yad Vashem - https://www.yadvashem.org/
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Research Sources
United States Holocaust Museum
Jewish Women’s Archive In addition to extensive information, they have a podcast and a book club for Jewish Women
The National Center for Jewish Film
Yad VaShem Holocaust Rememberance Center has online data bases, photo archives and an extensive online library
The Museum of the Jewish People Beit Hatfutsot in Israel
HathiTrust A collaborative of research libraries’ digitized items, with many Jewish publications
The Dead Sea Scrolls Digitized
The Jewish Encyclopedia This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations.
Center for Jewish History in New York City Millions of documents and on-line resources
including relevant YouTube videos.
Yiddish Book Center More than 11,000 Yiddish titles to read online or download
Google Books If a book is in the public domain you can download a PDF copy.
Google Hebrew Books Access to digitized Hebrew books published in Israel.
Sat, February 27 2021
15 Adar 5781
Upcoming Events
Today's Calendar
Shushan Purim |
Torah Study : 9:30a |
: 12:00p |
: 3:30p |
Purim 2021 - Megillah and Spiel : 6:00p |
Friday Night
Shabbat Evening Service : 7:30p |
: 8:30p |
Shabbat Day
Torah Study : 9:30a |
Kavanah Shabbat - virtual : 10:30a |
Mini Minyan : 10:30a |
: 7:00p |
Upcoming Programs & Events
Feb 27 Torah Study Shabbat, Feb 27 9:30a |
Feb 27 |
Feb 27 |
Feb 27 Purim 2021 - Megillah and Spiel Shabbat, Feb 27 6:00p |
Feb 28 Religious School (Zoom/all campus) Sunday, Feb 28 9:30a |
This week's Torah portion is Parashat T'tzaveh
Shushan Purim
Shabbat, Feb 27 |