Judaica DH at the Penn Libraries

03/31/2026

02/06/2026

Thank you for having us The United Congregation of Israelites Jamaica - Synagogue Shaare Shalom

01/27/2026

01/25/2026

12/18/2025

Wishing everyone a Chag Urim Sameach!

Here is a photograph of Nate Pepper singing during Hannukah service at Adath Shalom Synagogue from Still Home: Jews of South Philadelphia by Harvey Finkle

09/18/2025

The donor, alumna Louise Strauss, was a member of the Katz Center’s board of advisors and was dedicated to volunteer work and philanthropy.

07/02/2025

After nearly a decade in development, the Universal Yiddish Library (UYL) has launched! The UYL brings together the Yiddish book collections of four major institutions: the Yiddish Book Center, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the National Library of Israel, and the NYPL The New York Public Library. For the first time, scholars, students, Yiddish speakers, and anyone interested in Yiddish literature will be able to access more than 60,000 Yiddish book records through one portal, all free of charge. Nearly 20,000 Yiddish books have already been digitized, and over 18,000 are currently fully searchable via OCR (optical character recognition). Explore the Universal Yiddish Library today!

https://www.universalyiddishlibrary.org/en/

03/13/2025

Happy Purim!

Here's a ticket to the Purim Association Fancy Dress Ball held at the Academy of Music in New York City on February 26, 1880.

The event was a fundraiser for the Building Fund of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society. The ticket features a lithograph of Queen Esther and her court. The reverse side lists over 100 managers.

From the Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica, Kislak Center for Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

#פוריםשמח🎭❤️

12/24/2024

09/17/2024

Can you transcribe Hebrew, English, or Italian? Need something to do? Join Us in Transcribing Part of the Sabato Morais Collection!

· To get started with the Italian documents, visit: https://fromthepage.com/upenn/moraisitalian
· To get started with the English documents, visit: https://fromthepage.com/upenn/moraisenglish
· To get started with the Hebrew documents, visit: https://fromthepage.com/upenn/moraishebrew

To learn more about Sabato Morais and his contributions to Jewish life in the United States and beyond, visit: https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_CAJS_CJS.ARCMS8

05/15/2024

Ever wondered how to use OpenRefine to reconcile to your wikibase.cloud?

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