LibGuides: Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web: Jewish Art

Jewish Art

American Guild of Judaic Art
"Our mission is to celebrate the rich diversity and sacred beauty of Judaic Art around the world."
Art for the Soul: Jewish Artists Reflect
Blog about contemporary Jewish art from Chabad.org.
Cairo Geniza Collections
Cache of pages from Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo. The collection has been split up but the second largest set belongs to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, digitized here.
Contemporary Jewish Art Museum
Museum site.
Council of American Jewish Museum
"Working with Jewish museums as essential resources and vital centers."
Hebrew Manuscripts from Columbia University
Hebrew and Judaica manuscripts from Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library in full text.
International Catacomb Society
"Promotes awareness of the need for preservation, restoration, and documentation of the catacombs of Rome (with a special focus on the Jewish catacombs). Members may access additional resources including an online image archives and bibliographical database."
Jewish Art in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium
Essay from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jewish Art Salon
"A global network of contemporary Jewish art."
The Jews of Corfu: Between the Adriatic and the Ionian
Online exhibition from Columbia University Libraries.
Judaism and Art
From the Khan Academy, an online lesson plan.
Judaism and Rome
"Rethinking Judaism's Encounter with the Roman Empire."
Lenkin Family Collection of Photography
Comprises over 5,000 original photographs, primarily of Jerusalem and Palestine taken from 1850 to 1937. From UPenn via JSTOR.
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Collection of the University of California, Berkeley.
National Museum of American Jewish History
A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
Old City Jewish Arts Center
"A platform to build Jewish community through the arts." Located in Philadelphia.
Palestine: traveling in the Holy Land through the stereoscope
An accompaniment to Jesse Lyman Hurlbut’s 1900 text “Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope." From Brown Digital Repository.
Picturing Golda Meir
Collection of photos documenting the life of Golda Meir. From University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Libraries.
Shades of LA Photo Collection
"An archive of over 7,000 photographs representing the contemporary and historic diversity of families in Los Angeles. Images were taken from family albums." From Los Angeles Public Library.
United States Holocaust Museum
Search interface for the collection.
Yiddish Posters
Collection presents 78 posters of advertisements for performances and presentations that took place in the 1920s-30s in Eastern Europe, especially Latvia. From University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Libraries.

Solomon ben Raphael. Bible: Tabernacle with two cherubs and other cult objects. Spanish, 1299. Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Public Domain.