Ecosystem & Positioning

Founded in 1860, the Alliance Israélite Universelle is one of the oldest international Jewish institutions. It works for education, culture and the defence of human rights. Its website offers access to its library, its historical archives, its media library and its network of schools throughout the world.

The AIU holds one of the most important Judaic libraries in the world, with exceptional heritage collections (manuscripts, community archives, correspondence). The "Culture and Heritage" division includes research, library and the Baron Edmond de Rothschild media library (MABER). The Génération Alliance network connects former pupils of the Alliance schools.

A site devoted to the history of Algeria, offering old books from the 14th to the 20th century to download free or to read online. It is a personal project, a digital library of public-domain books devoted to Algeria and, more broadly, to North Africa.

Not specifically Jewish: it covers general Algerian history (colonial, Roman, Ottoman, Arab). Its connection with Judaism is indirect, through the historical chapters on the Jewish communities of Algeria found in certain works.

The Institute seeks to turn its gaze on the cross-fertilising contributions of Sephardic migrations, exploring history but also studying the communities that have inherited these cultures and traditions. It covers the whole Sephardic world across the centuries and continents.

INSSEF is part of a work of memory aimed at collecting, preserving and transmitting all information relating to the history, culture, traditions and journeys of Sephardic Jews. It operates through lectures, colloquia and a newsletter rich in news from the worldwide Sephardic heritage.

A 1901-law association whose aim is to preserve and transmit the cultural and traditional memory of the Jews of Algeria. Its scope is strictly communal and geographical: this history begins with the Phoenicians and ends in 1962 with the departure for metropolitan France.

The site collects video, audio, photographic and narrative testimonies, and the entire database will be deposited at the Museum of Jewish Art and History (MAHJ) in Paris for lasting preservation. It is a work of oral and written memory, centred on the lived experience of a specific community.

An online library offering a place where one may encounter significant works to better understand Jewish existence, through "Jewish books". Organised into five sections — Torah, Galut, In the Time of the Nations, Shoah, Israel.

It is an intellectual and literary project: reviews, courses and text analyses written by academics. To note: the project announced that it would cease, although the site will remain consultable thanks to archiving by the BNF.

Formerly Beit Hatfutsot, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, in Tel Aviv, traces the history and culture of the Jewish people throughout the world. It houses the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center and a database of Jewish family names detailing the origin and meaning of thousands of surnames.

In addition to the family-name database, the museum offers genealogical databases (family trees), community profiles, as well as collections of music, films and photographs. A major reference for Jewish onomastics and genealogy, consultable online.

Affiliated with the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, JewishGen is the world's largest Jewish genealogy portal. It brings together dozens of free databases: the JewishGen Family Finder (surnames and towns sought by genealogists), the Communities Database (Jewish localities), the worldwide burial registry (JOWBR), and numerous regional projects.

A reference resource for linking a surname to its localities of origin, its attested variants, and the diaspora that bears it. The data is contributed by researchers and subject to JewishGen's terms of use: it may be explored on the site but is not freely redistributable.