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How to Play the Jew's Harp
Very easy to follow instructions on how to play the Jew's harp. Complete with a nice labeled diagram which shows all the parts of the Jew's harp. Provides links for advanced lessons as well.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Murder of Hungarian Jewry
In May 1944, Jews in Hungary were deported to Auschwitz. In all, 565,000 Jews were murdered. View artifacts, photos, testimony videos, and documents from this horrendous time in history.
PBS
Pbs|cet: The Story of the Jews With Simon Schama
Simon Schama travels through three thousand years of Jewish history across Europe, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Bermuda, and into the United States. Notable historical data and images are presented through an interactive map.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Situation of the Jews in Warsaw After the Occupation
Essay describing life for the Jewish people living in German occupied Warsaw, Poland.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Deportation of Austrian and German Jews
Essay describing Hitler's policy of deporting the Jewish people from Germany and Austria.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: History of the Jews of Turkey [Pdf]
A document-based question unit for world history regarding the history of the Jewish people of Turkey.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Jewish History Sourcebook: Black Death and the Jews
This site, which is provided for by the Jewish History Sourcebook of Fordham University, has information on Jewish persecution resulting from the Black Plague.
Digital History
Digital History: American Jews
An interesting look at the Jewish population and culture in America in the 1800s. See how many adapted religious orthodoxy to fit in with American life.
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Jewish Public Library Archives
Based in Montreal, a city with a rich Canadian-Jewish history, the Jewish Public Library Archives holds material related to Jewish Canadian texts, photographs, posters, rare books and ephemera, and microfilmed Jewish newspapers. The...
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The Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee
Providing insight to current issues in the Jewish-Canadian community, this resource provides selections of relevant news articles relating to Jewish issues in Canada. There are also a large collection of web links relating to...
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American Jewish Historical Society: Timeline of American Soviet Jewry Movement
In the late 1800's and most of the 1900's countries made many efforts to help Jews in the Soviet Union gain freedom to practice their faith. Countries such as the United States and Israel offered exile to many Jews to escape the...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Transport
Paul Salitter was a German officer responsible for the transport of 1007 Jews. He was instructed to keep a detailed account of this transport for his superiors. Read his report and juxtapose that with a first-hand account from a Jewish...
The History Cat
The History Cat: History Trekker: Ellis Island: An Immigrant Story
Read about the difficult life of Jews in Russia under Czar Alexander III, one where they faced discrimination and Jewish communities were attacked when pogroms took place. Follow along as a Russian Jew travels to America and is processed...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Conservative Judaism
Covers history of the development of the Conservative movement. Also discusses major beliefs of conservative Jews.
Luminarium
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature: Christopher Marlowe
This is a biography of Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593). He was known as the father of English tragedy; his works include Tamburlaine the Great, Dr Faustus, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, and Edward the Second.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Photographs From the Warsaw Ghetto
This resource presents photos taken in the Warsaw Ghetto that depict different perspectives of the lives of Jews living in this ghetto.
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center: And I Still See Their Faces
A melancholy site that speaks of the Polish Jews through their pictures. Pictures were taken before the Holocaust; an entire generation wiped out with nothing left but photographs.
PBS
Pbs: America and the Holocaust: Kristallnacht
From the larger PBS site, America and the Holocaust. This essay describes the atrocities of Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, across Germany. Find out what precipitated the violence against Jews all across Germany, and discover how the...
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Sobibior, the Forgotten Revolt [Pdf]
A stunning account of the most successful revolt and escape from a Nazi concentration camp. Read about the camp,Sobibor, and how it was set up. Then find out about the plans for escape and how that was carried out. Included are maps,...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Deportation to the Death Camps
The Jewish people were packed into cattle cars with no ventilation and no food or water for days on their way to the camps. Many did not survive the deportation. Read a synopsis and view primary sources such as photos, testimonies, video...
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Before They Perished
This unique photography collection found at Birkenau after liberation includes scenes from the everyday life of families while showing the world of Polish Jews before the Holocaust.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Nuremberg Laws: Background and Overview
Find a good overview of the Nuremberg Laws, passed in Germany in 1935, that imposed many restrictions on the Jews in Germany before the beginning of World War II.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: "Faith in the Human Spirit Is Not Lost"
Pictorial exhibit commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Righteous Program founded by Yad Vashem to honor rescuers who protected Jews from death and deportation during the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Uprooting and Deportation
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...
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