Links of Interest

Listserves

Students should consider signing up for the Israeli government daily news listserv.  To subscribe, send a message to <listserv@pankow.inter.net.il>.  Do not include a subject line.  The body should have one (and only one) line as follows:  "SUBSCRIBE Israeline <student's first name> <student's last name>".  The student's own name should be in the brackets.

ISRAELINE is a listserv of current newspaper articles and news releases put out by the Israeli government.  To subscribe, send a message with NO subject heading to <listserv@pankow.inter.net.il>.  Your message should say:

subscribe israeline "first name last name"

Academic sites

JStudies.org is an "academic" site with bibliographies, links, and a directory of scholars, www.JStudies.org/

The History Guide, www.pagesz.net/~stevek/

The Jewish Student On-line Research Center, www.us-israel.org, offers facts about almost every aspect of Jewish history.

Bezalel Academy, www.bezalel.ac.il

Open University, www.openu.ac.il

Academic Web of Israel, www.ac.il

Social Sciences Data Archive, ssda.huji.ac.il

Israel University Inter-Library Network, www6.huji.ac.il/libnet/top.html

Museums

The Jewish Museum of Maryland,  www.jhsm.org/

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org/

See their Web Exhibition: "The Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto", www.ushmm.org/kovno/

Newspapers and other news resources

The Jerusalem Report, www.jrep.com

The Jerusalem Post, www.jpost.com, go to www.jpost.com/com/Archive for several months of back issues

New York University Library Reference: Judaic News Resources
www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/hum/judaic/jud_news.htm

The Forward, a Jewish weekly paper out of New York City, has an extensive list of links to all sorts of news agencies, www.forward.com/

The Jewish Post, see this fun article comparing Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, www.jewishpost.com/jp0506/jpn0506q.htm

New York Review of Books:  A journal of liberal opinion as well as literary review, NYRB often serves as a platform for Israeli and Palestinian intellectuals eager to put their position before the American reading public.  An archive of earlier editions is searchable on the web.  www.nybooks.com/nyrev/archives.html

Genealogy

Jewish cemeteries in the NYC area; this site includes information on Jewish cemeteries as well as links to important genealogical sites including the National Archives, www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/4900/JewishCemeteries.htm

Cities

www.upenn.edu/wplp/course/city/index.htm

h-net2.msu.edu/~urban

Pictures

See this photograph from the collection From a Vanished World.

Other

Har Homa and Jerusalem Real Estate database, www.harhoma.com
Caution:  this is a partisan website run by a company with an agenda in the Har Homa controversy.

B'tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, www.btselem.org

Embassy of Israel, www.israelemb.org