693 Institutions(40)

Building at 770 Eastern Parkway, world headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism since 1940. First a residence and center of rav Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, it became the heart of the activities of rav Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Its design has been replicated identically throughout the world.

First rabbinical seminary founded in continental Europe since the Shoah (Liberal Judaism).

Supreme institution governing the Hebrew language, heir to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's Language Committee. It prepares the Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language.

Pluralist and transdenominational seminary training rabbis and cantors. It welcomes students from all streams of Judaism.

The only institution dedicated to the Holocaust in South Australia, founded by the Jewish community of Adelaide and managing the Andrew Steiner Fund for Education. It preserves testimonies and artifacts from survivors who settled in South Australia after the war and conducts educational programs in state schools. The museum expanded in 2022 to accommodate new collections and permanent exhibition spaces.

Umbrella organization of American Orthodox Haredi Judaism, founded in 1922 and operating under the authority of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Sages of the Torah). It ensures advocacy, social services, education and youth support, with national offices in New York and Washington.

Aish HaTorah

Jérusalem, Israël

Yeshiva and Orthodox educational organization founded by Rabbi Noah Weinberg, located near the Western Wall. It works toward the renewal of Jewish identity.

Founded in 2013, the Academy for Jewish Studies in Potsdam is a German center of excellence dedicated to advanced training in Jewish studies, supported by the federal government. It offers master's, doctoral, and continuing education programs for researchers and professionals in the German-speaking world. It is distinguished by an interdisciplinary approach covering Jewish history, religion, literature, and philosophy, in partnership with the University of Potsdam.

Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), established in 1994 under the College of Letters and Science, with founding director Professor Arnold J. Band. Renamed after a gift from Alan D. Leve, it coordinates interdisciplinary teaching and research on Jewish history, languages, and cultures.

Alliance Israélite Universelle

Paris

Historical library and archives in Paris. Former holder of part of the Luzzatto collection, including the celebrated Mahzor Luzzatto sold in 2021.

Founded in 1953-1954 under the name American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs by Isaiah L. "Si" Kenen, the group adopted the name American Israel Public Affairs Committee in 1959. Based in Washington D.C., AIPAC is the leading pro-Israel lobbying group before the legislative and executive branches of the United States.

Founded on November 11, 1906 by a group of American Jewish notables, the AJC is one of the oldest organizations defending the rights of Jews. Based in New York, it combats antisemitism and defends civil rights through diplomacy and international advocacy, via numerous regional and international offices.

Founded in 1918 to present a unified American Jewish position at the Paris Peace Conference, then reorganized in 1922 under the presidency of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and structured durably in 1928. More combative than the American Jewish Committee, it defends civil rights and Jewish interests in the United States.

Oldest ethnic historical society in the United States; archives of American Jewish life.

Founded on November 27, 1914 by the gathering of American Jewish relief committees to aid Jewish communities in Europe and the Near East during World War I. The principal worldwide Jewish humanitarian organization ("Rescue, Relief, Rehabilitation"), it operates in over 70 countries. Distinct entity from its archives.

Organization and cultural center devoted to Sephardic and Mizrahi heritage, a partner of the Center for Jewish History. It holds Sephardic archives and collections.

Anne Frank Zentrum

Berlin, Allemagne

German partner of the Anne Frank Foundation, presenting a permanent exhibition on her history. It carries out educational work against antisemitism.

Founded in 1913 by the B'nai B'rith order following the Leo Frank affair, under the name Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Became independent in 2009, based in New York, it has the mission to combat antisemitism and all forms of discrimination and prejudice.

Largest Jewish museum in the world; 4,000 years of history and diaspora.

Largest archive of Jewish community records (pinkassim), from the Middle Ages to the present.

National archives; documents from the Ottoman and Mandate periods to the State of Israel.

Official archives of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency. They preserve the founding documents of the Zionist movement and the Yishuv.

The Archivo Histórico Nacional in Madrid holds the Inquisition section, assembled from 1896 onwards from the archives of Simancas and Alcalá de Henares and completed in 1914. This collection of some 7,000 bundles and registers emanating from the Council of the Supreme Inquisition and its district tribunals constitutes the principal archival source on the trials of Judeo-converts (Judaizing conversos) in Spain, its American colonies, and Italy. It documents the identity, religious practices, and family networks of Iberian crypto-Jews over more than three centuries. The holdings are accessible through the PARES portal of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

Formerly the International Tracing Service (ITS), the Arolsen Archives constitute the world's most comprehensive documentary collection on the victims and survivors of National Socialism, with information on some 17.5 million individuals. Their 26,000 linear meters of original documents and more than 40 million digitized documents are inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. Founded after 1945 by the Allies for the tracing of displaced persons, they were opened to public research from 2007. The institution produces educational tools and conducts traveling exhibitions on Nazi persecution.

A Moroccan association dedicated to the promotion of Judeo-Moroccan heritage through cultural festivals, exhibitions, and restoration projects for historic synagogues in Morocco. Supported by the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad and American and Israeli foundations, it contributes to the valorization of the historic mellah neighborhoods of Fez, Meknes, Marrakech, and Essaouira. The association organizes the annual pilgrimage (hillula) of Rabbi Haïm Pinto in Mogador (Essaouira), attracting thousands of Jews from around the world. It participates in interfaith dialogue between Jewish and Muslim traditions in contemporary Morocco.

International association dedicated to the preservation and management of the religious and cultural heritage of Jewish communities of Alexandria and Egypt. It works to preserve community registers (civil status, Beth-Din), synagogues, and Jewish archives of Egypt, and federates associations of Jews from Egypt in Europe, Israel, and the United States.

Founded in 1984 by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack-Pikus, Avotaynu is the leading publishing house dedicated to Jewish genealogy. It has published since 1985 the journal "Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy" as well as more than seventy reference works, including "Where Once We Walked", a directory of Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust.

Created in 2009 through a donation from the Azrieli Foundation, the Institute offers programs in Israeli and Jewish studies within Concordia University in Montreal. It is one of the few Canadian academic centers entirely devoted to Israel studies from a multidisciplinary perspective (history, politics, society, culture). It hosts visiting researchers and graduate students.

Founded on 13 October 1843 in New York by twelve German Jewish immigrants led by Henry Jones, B'nai B'rith ("Sons of the Covenant") is the oldest Jewish service organization in the world. Its headquarters is in Washington D.C.; it supports Jewish life worldwide, combats antisemitism, and conducts humanitarian and diplomatic advocacy.

Museum and archive center dedicated to the memory of the Jews of Iraq and their thousand-year-old community. It documents their exodus to Israel in the twentieth century.

Leading contemporary dance company in Israel, founded in 1964 by Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild with Martha Graham serving as artistic adviser. Initially devoted to Graham technique, it reinvented itself under the direction of Ohad Naharin (since 1990), creator of the "Gaga" language, and now radiates worldwide.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek — fonds hébreu

Munich, Allemagne

~700 Hebrew manuscripts and 37,600 printed works; a major German collection.

Central municipal library of Tel Aviv, home to the Genazim, the archives of Hebrew writers. It preserves manuscripts and correspondence of authors.

Cultural center in Jerusalem founded in 2007 by the Avi Chai Foundation to promote Israeli Jewish culture, creativity, and identity. Located on King George Street in a building designed by Ada Karmi-Melamede, it offers performances, lectures, exhibitions, podcasts, and web series reflecting the diversity of Jewish life and thought.

Founded in 1949 by survivors who were members of ghetto resistance movements, Beit Lohamei HaGhettaot houses the world's first Shoah memorial museum and rich documentary archives. Its holdings include letters, diaries, oral and video testimonies, photographs, ghetto council documents, clandestine proclamations, and minutes of resistance meetings in occupied countries. An agreement signed in 2004 with the USHMM enabled the reproduction of more than 1.5 million pages of archives. The research room, open to the public, provides intranet access to all digitized collections.

Network of yeshivot of the Belz Hasidic movement, reconstituted in Israel from 1949 onward, after the destruction of the Belz community (Ukraine) during the Holocaust. The movement, redeveloped by Rabbi Aharon Rokeach and later led by Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach, is one of the most important in contemporary Hasidism.

An institute founded in Jerusalem to perpetuate the rabbinic teaching of Rabbi Yossef Haïm of Baghdad (1835–1909), one of the greatest Sephardic and Mizrahi halakhic authorities of the nineteenth century. The institute publishes critical and annotated editions of the monumental work "Ben Ish Haï," a collection of laws and weekly sermons that constitutes the principal halakhic reference for Iraqi, Kurdish, and Iranian Jewish communities. It runs a school of rabbinic thought and online courses disseminating Eastern Sephardic teaching to diaspora communities in France, Canada, and the United States. The institution upholds the mystical traditions of the yeshiva Sha'ar Hashamayim founded in Baghdad.

The Ben M. Ferencz Archives, affiliated with the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro College in New York, preserve the personal and professional papers of Benjamin B. Ferencz, chief American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial and ardent advocate of international justice. The collection includes trial files, testimonies, correspondence, and documents relating to the restitution of looted Jewish assets and reparations granted to victims of Nazism. It constitutes a unique resource on the post-war legal aftermath of the Shoah and on the construction of international criminal law. The archives are accessible by appointment.

Founded in 2001 at the Technische Universität Braunschweig in partnership with the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bet Tfila is a German-Israeli research center specializing in the survey, documentation, and study of the sacred and civil architecture of Jewish communities in Europe. Its interdisciplinary approach situates the Jewish built heritage within its shared cultural context with other religious traditions. Its documentary holdings include plans, photographs, and data on hundreds of synagogues and communal buildings across the continent. The institution is referenced within the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) network.

Founded by Rabbi Aharon Kotler, it is one of the largest yeshivot in the world. It is a pillar of the Lithuanian yeshiva world in America.

First center dedicated to Holocaust remembrance in the United Kingdom, founded by the Smith family. It offers a memorial, memorial gardens, and an educational program.

Cultural center and museum in Tel Aviv founded in 1966 by Yitzhak Dov Berkowitz as an archive of the work of the great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem. It houses a library, exhibition halls (original editions, photographs, theater programs) and offers Yiddish courses, lectures and events devoted to the Jewish culture of Eastern Europe.

Oldest institution of higher education in Israel, founded in 1906 by sculptor Boris Schatz following a resolution of the seventh Zionist Congress. Named after the biblical Bezalel, it aimed to create a Zionist artistic style blending Jewish, Oriental and European traditions. It became a public institution in 1969 and is the national academy of arts and design.

Research institute and publishing house founded in 1935 by the World Zionist Executive and the Jewish Agency, named after poet Hayim Nahman Bialik. Dedicated to history and culture in the Hebrew language, it has published major works such as Encyclopaedia Biblica (1942-1982) and major scholarly series on the Bible and the Near East.

Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem

Jérusalem, Israël

Archaeology museum devoted to the civilizations of the ancient Near East through the biblical period. It draws on the Elie Borowski collection.

Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Milan, Italie

Hebrew manuscripts gathered by Cardinal Borromeo through emissaries in the East.

Jewish collection of 237 manuscripts, 15 incunabula, and early Hebrew editions.

The Biblioteca de Castilla-La Mancha, housed in the former convent of San Juan de los Reyes, inherits a Hebrew collection originating from the confiscations of 1492 and the archives of the Toledo Inquisition. It preserves philosophical manuscripts and documents of forced conversion that shed light on the life of the Marranos of Toledo. This collection, little known outside Spanish circles, also includes Sephardic liturgical parchments. It is essential for the study of the transition between medieval Iberian Judaism and the Sephardic diaspora.

The Library of the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid holds a Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic collection assembled by the Orientalist Pascual de Gayangos in the nineteenth century. It includes medieval Sephardic manuscripts, documents from the Genizah, and Judeo-Arabic philosophical texts from Spain and Morocco. This collection is catalogued in the inventory of Spanish manuscripts but remains little studied by Hebrew specialists. It represents a unique window onto the transmission of Jewish texts in the Iberian Peninsula in the late Middle Ages.

Medieval Hebrew manuscripts, including fragments recovered from bindings (Italian Genizah).

Hebrew manuscripts from the Stamperia Orientale Medicea (1584).

The Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, distinct from the Biblioteca Casanatense and the Vatican Library, holds several hundred Hebrew manuscripts and incunabula acquired during the dissolution of religious institutions following Italian unification in 1870. It contains kabbalistic texts, illuminated Esther scrolls, and documents relating to the Jewish communities of Rome and Latium. These collections are described in the Censimento dei Manoscritti Ebraici in Italia. They are accessible to researchers in the library's specialized reading rooms.

Collection of Oriental manuscripts including Hebrew manuscripts from the 18th–19th centuries.

De Rossi collection (~1,400 Hebrew manuscripts), one of the most important in the world.

The university library of Genoa holds a Hebrew collection assembled from the collections of Genoese Jewish families and university acquisitions in the eighteenth century. It contains liturgical manuscripts, texts of medieval philosophy, and documents relating to the Sephardic community of Genoa after 1492. This collection is described in the Censimento dei Manoscritti Ebraici in Italia. The Jewish community of Genoa, often overshadowed by those of Venice or Livorno, is uniquely documented here.

Leeser Rosenthal collection: ~1,000 manuscripts and 20,000 rare printed works of Jewish culture.

One of the most important collections of Hebrew manuscripts in the world.

~14,000 Hebrew books and 2,000 manuscripts (Günzburg collection), digitized with the NLI.

Major private collection of Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts (~1,200), dispersed at auction.

Distinct from the general library of the Alliance israélite universelle, the Mosseri collection is a major sub-collection acquired in 1970 and originating from the Cairo collection of the Mosseri family. It holds fragments of the Cairo Genizah — complementary to the Taylor-Schechter — as well as Judeo-Arabic manuscripts and documents from the medieval Egyptian Jewish community. This collection has been the subject of a partial digitisation programme by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It constitutes one of the most important collections of Genizah fragments outside Cambridge.

The Carolina Rediviva University Library of Uppsala, founded in 1620, holds one of the most significant Hebrew collections in Scandinavia, assembled in the seventeenth century through Orientalist acquisitions and war booty from Swedish campaigns in Germany and Poland. It contains biblical manuscripts, talmudic and kabbalistic texts, and rare Hebrew incunabula. This collection is catalogued in the ALVIN database and partially digitized. It is essential for studying the relationship between the Swedish Lutheran Church and Hebrew culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Bibliothèque de l'Université de Leyde — Legatum Warnerianum

Leyde, Pays-Bas

Collection of Oriental and Hebrew manuscripts from the bequest of Levinus Warner. It constitutes one of the oldest academic Hebrew collections in Europe.

The library of the University of Warsaw holds several hundred Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books, in part rescued from Jewish collections dispersed during the Second World War and reassembled after 1945. This collection includes biblical codices, talmudic commentaries, and documents relating to Jewish communities in central Poland. It is distinct from and complementary to the collections of the Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH). Part of it is accessible via the digital library Polona.

Distinct from the collection of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, the library of the University of Vienna holds a Hebrew collection centered on the Spitzer donations and nineteenth-century Orientalist acquisitions. It includes medieval Ashkenazic manuscripts, texts of Hebrew philosophy and grammar, and archives of the Viennese Jewish community. This collection was partially dispersed in 1938, but recent restitutions have returned several key pieces. It is accessible through the university library's online catalogue.

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon holds a Judeo-Portuguese collection comprising documents relating to the New Christians and the Sephardic communities of Portugal (fifteenth–eighteenth centuries). It includes copies of Inquisitorial trial records, liturgical texts in Judeo-Portuguese, and commercial correspondence from Sephardic merchant houses in Amsterdam and Hamburg. This collection is distinct from the Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo and illuminates the Sephardic diaspora from a little-known angle. It may be consulted by appointment in the Foundation's library.

The Central Israelite Consistory of Belgium, established in 1832 under the Napoleonic regime, manages a communal library rich in sources of rabbinical law, responsa, and communal archives covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It holds unique collections relating to Belgian Jewish communities, including registers from the Second World War. This collection complements the archives of Kazerne Dossin in documenting the persecution of the Jews of Belgium. It is not easily accessible to the public, which makes it a frequently overlooked source.

The Arquivo Distrital de Braga and the diocesan seminary preserve medieval Hebrew fragments removed from the bindings of church books, testifying to Jewish activity in northern Portugal before 1497. These fragments, discovered in the 1990s, include biblical, talmudic and liturgical texts from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. Their study is part of the Portuguese program for the recovery of "hebraica fragmenta." This documentary deposit illustrates the Jewish presence in the northern regions of the Iberian Peninsula before the expulsion.

The Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau (Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar), founded in 1854, was the first academic rabbinical seminary in Central Europe. Its library assembled more than 20,000 volumes and Hebrew manuscripts, including the personal archives of Heinrich Graetz. Part of the collection survived the Second World War and is today held at the university library of Wrocław. This collection is of capital importance for the history of the Wissenschaft des Judentums.

The Elias Sourasky central library of Tel Aviv University holds the Bialik collection, a gift of the personal archives of the national poet Haïm Nahman Bialik, comprising autograph manuscripts, correspondence, and unpublished texts. It also manages an important collection of Haskala texts and archives of the Zionist labour movement. This collection is distinct from that of the Hebrew University and constitutes the heart of research on modern Hebrew literature. The digital collections are accessible via the university's portal.

Hebrew manuscripts assembled by Sir Moses Montefiore (Hirschfeld catalogue, 1904).

The Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek of Hamburg holds a major collection of Hebrew manuscripts. It houses the Levy collection and medieval codices.

Papyrus collection including Hebrew and Aramaic fragments from the ancient Near East. It complements the Hebrew holdings of the national library.

Bibliothèque nationale de France — fonds Hébreu

Paris, France

Rich Hebrew holdings in the manuscripts department (bibles, treatises), largely digitized.

Bibliothèque nationale de Russie — collection Firkovich

Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie

Karaite collection of Abraham Firkovich: thousands of medieval Hebrew manuscripts.

Archives of Samuel David Luzzatto and documentation on the 19th-century epistolary exchanges between Italian and North African Jewish scholars.

Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg

Strasbourg, France

Heritage library of Alsace, rich in Oriental manuscripts including Hebrew.

Rabbinical seminary of Hungary (Országos Rabbiképző), the only rabbinical seminary in continuous operation in the former Eastern Bloc. It holds an important Hebrew library.

The Royal Library of Denmark (Det Kongelige Bibliotek), founded in 1648, holds a Hebrew collection assembled primarily in the eighteenth century through the acquisitions of Danish Orientalists and the commercial ties of Copenhagen's Sephardic community. It includes biblical manuscripts, texts of medieval Jewish philosophy, and documents from the Sephardic community of Fredericia. This collection is partially digitized through the Rex portal. The library also holds unique archives on the Jews of Denmark in the age of the Reformation.

The Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris holds a discreet but notable Hebrew collection, comprising Hebrew manuscripts and incunabula acquired in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Parisian orientalists. Among the remarkable items are illuminated Hebrew bibles and kabbalistic treatises. This collection is distinct from and complementary to that of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It remains little studied and offers unexploited research potential on the relations between Christian scholars and Jewish texts in the early modern period.

Salman Schocken Library: incunabula, medieval Hebrew poetry, Hasidism.

University library holding Hebrew manuscripts, including one of the oldest known Torah scrolls. It belongs to a long tradition of orientalism.

First interactive science museum in Israel, opened in 1992 in Givat Ram, facing the Hebrew University, at the initiative of Professor Peter Hillman. Named after its principal donor, Neri Bloomfield, it offers interactive exhibitions and installations for science communication and has welcomed several million visitors.

Oldest representative Jewish organization in the world still active, founded in London in 1760 under the name London Committee of Deputies of British Jews; it adopted its current name in 1913. Democratically elected, it is the voice of the British Jewish community to government, Parliament and the media.

Flagship yeshiva of Bobov (Sanz lineage) Hasidism, established in Borough Park in 1946 by rav Shlomo Halberstam, who reconstituted the dynasty born in Bobowa (Galicia) after the Holocaust. One of Brooklyn's great Hasidic centers.

Bodleian Library, Oxford

Oxford

One of the oldest libraries in Europe, preserving several major Hebrew manuscripts including Ankawa manuscripts and part of the Luzzatto collection.

Largest private collection of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts: ketubot, Esther scrolls.

Brandeis University — collection Judaica

Waltham, États-Unis

+200,000 works of Judaica: Bible, rabbinic, mysticism, Hebrew, Yiddish, Shoah.

British Library — collection hébraïque

Londres, Royaume-Uni

~3,000 manuscripts and 7,000 Genizah fragments; Golden Haggadah, Lisbon Bible.

Research institute of Goethe University in Frankfurt, inaugurated on October 28, 2021, originating from the Martin Buber chair of Jewish religious philosophy created in 1989. It is dedicated to Jewish intellectual and cultural history of the modern and contemporary era.

Cambridge — Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit

Cambridge, Royaume-Uni

Preserves and studies ~193,000 fragments from the Cairo Geniza.

Municipal theater of Tel Aviv founded in 1944 by Josef Millo, in reaction to the expressionist style then dominant. Animated by Israeli artists, it privileges local theater and avant-garde West European repertoire. Recognized as a municipal theater in 1970, it moved in 2003 to the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center and received the Israel Prize in 2005.

Memorial of the former internment camp in the Pyrenees, from which thousands of Jews were deported. It commemorates in particular the German Jews of Baden.

Holocaust memorial museum opened in 1995 in Terre Haute by survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who with her twin sister was subjected to experiments by Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. The sole Holocaust museum in Indiana, it was destroyed by arson in 2003, then rebuilt and reopened in 2005.

First Holocaust memorial center in Africa, opened in Cape Town in August 1999. Museum and educational institution, it documents the history of the Holocaust and genocides (including Rwanda 1994) to combat racism and antisemitism. Founding center of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation.

Center for Jewish History

New York, États-Unis

Hub bringing together AJHS, YIVO, Leo Baeck…; the largest Jewish archive outside Israel.

Jewish studies center at Harvard University, whose creation was decided on June 15, 1977 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. It coordinates teaching and research in Jewish Studies across the university's faculties, organizes conferences and fellowships, and constitutes one of the discipline's major centers in North America.

The Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie in The Hague holds significant collections of Dutch Jewish communal registers, including records from the Portuguese Sephardic community and the Ashkenazic community of Amsterdam, covering births, marriages, and deaths from the seventeenth century to 1811. These archives, which complement those of the Dutch National Archives and the Joods Historisch Museum, are used for genealogical research on the Jews of the Netherlands. Its online databases (Nederland voor 1811) provide access to millions of nominal records, a substantial portion of which concerns Dutch Jewish communities. Part of the collection has been digitized in partnership with the National Library of Israel.

Professional association of Reform rabbis in the United States and Canada, founded in 1889 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise. It is the oldest and largest rabbinical organization in the world; it develops the liturgy, ethics, and doctrinal positions of Reform Judaism. Its headquarters is in New York.

Center created in 2002 within the Department of Religious Sciences of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris, at the initiative of Esther Benbassa, thanks to the patronage of the Benveniste family. Holding EPHE laboratory status since 2008, it develops research on the Judeo-Iberian world, its language, culture and history.

Centre communautaire juif de Cracovie — Fondation Judaica (Centre de culture juive)

Cracovie, Pologne

Center of Jewish culture in the Kazimierz quarter, organizer of the Kraków Jewish Culture Festival. It hosts lectures, exhibitions, and heritage programs.

Research center documenting Jewish art and heritage throughout the world, with the Index of Jewish Art. It records synagogues, illuminated manuscripts, and ritual objects.

Research and teaching center founded in the 1970s at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, offering programs in Hebrew studies, Jewish history, and Jewish literature from the ancient Mediterranean world to the contemporary era. It integrated studies in Judeo-Arabic languages (Judeo-Berber, Judeo-Spanish) into its curriculum. Scholars such as Gérard Nahon and Mireille Hadas-Lebel taught there.

Archive on resistance, the persecution of Jews and National Socialism in Austria. It maintains a database of the Austrian victims of the Shoah.

Archive center founded clandestinely during the Occupation by Isaac Schneersohn. Its collections, now integrated into the Mémorial de la Shoah, document the persecution of the Jews.

A research association based in France, dedicated to the study and Memory of Egyptian Jewry, whose presence dates back to the Pharaonic era and whose flourishing community (80,000 people in 1948) was almost entirely expelled between 1948 and 1967. The CREJE collects family archives, photographs, and ritual objects from families of Alexandria and Cairo settled in France, Israel, Brazil, and the United States. It works in conjunction with the Communauté israélite du Caire — the last representative body managing the Ben Ezra (Fustat), Sha'ar Hashamayim, and Eliyahu Hanavi synagogues in Alexandria — and with the Egyptian government for the preservation of these monuments. The center publishes studies on Judeo-Egyptian literature, the music of Alexandria, and the Karaite families of Egypt.

International institution with university and scientific vocation founded in 1994 at the initiative of Robert Assaraf to develop knowledge and study of the history of Moroccan Jews. It maintains close ties with the universities of Rabat, Kénitra, Fès and Oujda, and welcomes researchers working on Judeo-Moroccan history and culture.

The Vernadsky National Library of Kyiv holds a significant collection of Hebrew manuscripts and books assembled principally from the collections of Jewish communities in eastern Ukraine after 1918. It includes Torah scrolls, medieval commentaries, and early printed books from Podolia, Volhynia, and the provinces of the Pale. These collections are partially catalogued through a joint programme with the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society. Their study is crucial for understanding Ukrainian Judaism before the Shoah.

Founded in 1994 at the University of Sussex, this center is dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and literature of German Jewry (Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte). It organizes research programs, international conferences, and publishes the journal German Jewish Studies. It maintains close ties with the archives of German Jewish émigrés in the United Kingdom, notably through the Leo Baeck Institute.

Inaugurated on 11 March 2011, exactly 68 years after the deportation of 7,148 Jews from Macedonia to Treblinka, this center is located in the historic Jewish quarter of Skopje. Its permanent exhibition in 21 sections, opened in 2018, traces the history of the Jews of the Balkans and their annihilation under Bulgarian occupation in alliance with the Nazis. It is the only institution dedicated exclusively to the Holocaust in North Macedonia.

A research, documentation, and education center located in Oslo at Villa Grande, the former residence of the collaborator Vidkun Quisling, established in 2001. Funded in part by the restitution of property confiscated from Norway's Jews during the Occupation, it receives approximately 50,000 visitors per year, including 10,000 schoolchildren. It documents the persecution of Norwegian Jews, of whom 773 were deported and murdered, as well as the fate of Roma and other minorities.

Human rights and Shoah remembrance organization that runs the Museum of Tolerance. It continues the documentation work of Simon Wiesenthal.

Founded in 1976 within the AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina), the Centro Marc Turkow is the principal documentation center on the Jewish presence in Argentina over more than 150 years. It holds photographic collections, press archives, oral and video testimonies, and detailed documentation on the 1994 AMIA bombing. Named after Marc Turkow, a Polish Jewish intellectual who took refuge in Argentina in the 1930s, it makes its resources freely available to researchers in its reading room and online. Its bibliographic catalogue is accessible through the AMIA digital portal.

Spanish public consortium created in December 2006, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, AECID, the Community of Madrid and the municipal government. Located in the Palacio de Cañete, its mission is to disseminate the Sephardic legacy in Spain, promote knowledge of Jewish culture and foster ties with Israel.

A non-profit organization founded in Vienna and Budapest in 2000, Centropa collected more than 1,200 oral testimonies from Jewish survivors in 15 countries of Central, Eastern, and Balkan Europe and the former USSR, accompanied by 25,000 digitized family photographs. Its holdings form a unique visual and oral memory of Jewish life in the twentieth century in these regions. The entire archive was acquired by the USHMM in Washington, which now oversees its preservation and dissemination. Centropa continues a major online education program aimed at young Europeans.

Center housed in the restored New Synagogue on Oranienburger Straße. It contains a museum, archives, and a research center on Berlin Jewish life.

Founded in 1984, the Jewish Genealogy Circle is France's first Jewish genealogy association, a member of the IAJGS and the French Genealogical Federation. A secular association bringing together amateurs and researchers, it helps its members trace their Jewish ancestry, publishes the quarterly journal "Généalo-J" and maintains databases of several hundred thousand names.

Supreme rabbinic authority recognized by Israeli law for Judaism in Israel, established in 1921 under the British Mandate with the election of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (Ashkenazi) and Rabbi Jacob Meir (Sephardic). It exercises jurisdiction over personal status, kashrut, conversions and rabbinical courts.

Reference library on Kabbalah, Hasidism and Jewish mysticism.

594 Hebrew manuscripts (an illuminated Mishneh Torah) and ~600 Geniza fragments.

~1,700 medieval fragments from the Cairo Genizah, jointly held by Cambridge and Oxford.

Hebrew manuscripts and incunabula from the Breslau Seminary, now dispersed.

The Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea of Ferrara holds the Foà collection, comprising Hebrew manuscripts bequeathed by the Foà family, one of the great Jewish families of Ferrara. This collection includes kabbalistic, philosophical, and liturgical works copied in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries in northern Italy. Ferrara was a major centre of Hebrew publishing in the sixteenth century, and these manuscripts testify to that intellectual vitality. The collection is partially described in the Italian national catalogues of Hebrew manuscripts.

~1,700 Hebrew manuscripts (10th–20th c.), major American academic Judaica collection.

The Kahal Shalom synagogue, founded in 1577 in the old city of Rhodes, is the oldest active synagogue in Europe and the only surviving Jewish place of worship of a Sephardic community re-established after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. The congregation, which numbered 4,000 members before 1944 (90% of whom were deported to Auschwitz), maintains a minyan during the summer visits of the Rhodesian diaspora living in Rhodes Town, South Africa, the United States, and São Paulo. The synagogue is managed by a committee heir to the original kahal, which has undertaken a restoration with the support of the Foundation for Jewish Heritage and the Greek government. It houses seventeenth-century Sephardic liturgical objects of exceptional heritage value.

An institutional body representing the approximately 1,500 Jews still present in Tunisia, heir to the Grand Conseil israélite established under the French protectorate. It manages the synagogues, schools, and Jewish cemeteries active in Tunis, Djerba, Sfax, and Sousse, and coordinates relations with the Tunisian government on matters of heritage and freedom of worship. The community of Djerba, historically intact, maintains unique rabbinic and artisanal institutions such as the crafting of gold Menorahs and the traditional Talmudic school. The committee also coordinates relations with the tens of thousands of Tunisian Jews who have emigrated to France and Israel.

Community organization created in 2001 through the merger of the Sephardic Community of Quebec (1976), the Jewish Community Center, and Hillel. It preserves, develops, and promotes Sephardic culture and identity, offering educational, social, and cultural services, the Kinor choir, the journal La Voix Sépharade, and Montreal's Sefarad Festival.

Arising from meetings begun in 1955-1956 at the instigation of Philip Klutznick and Nahum Goldmann, and formally established in 1959, the Conference of Presidents federates about fifty major American Jewish organizations. Based in New York, it acts as the consensus voice of the American Jewish community, notably on Israeli security.

The official representative body of the Jewish communities of Morocco, the Council of Israelite Communities of Morocco (CCIM) is the institutional heir of the communal structures that governed Jewish life under the Protectorate. It oversees the synagogues still in operation, Jewish cemeteries, schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle remaining in Morocco, and the Jewish Museum of Casablanca. The CCIM maintains official relations with the Moroccan Royal Palace in the context of Morocco's policy of preserving its Hebrew heritage. It coordinates the annual pilgrimages to holy sites (hiloula) that attract tens of thousands of Jews of Moroccan origin each year.

Germany's largest synagogue, restored after the Shoah, associated with the musical tradition of Louis Lewandowski. It houses a major liturgical heritage.

An institution created in 1808 under Napoleon I to represent the Jews of Belgium, the Central Consistory is the official body recognized by the Belgian state for Jewish religious affairs. It oversees the nine local communities of Belgium, manages ritual slaughter (shechita), religious instruction in public schools, and military and prison chaplaincies. After the Holocaust, which decimated the Belgian Jewish community, the Consistory played a central role in reconstructing Jewish life and memorializing the 25,000 Belgian Jews who were deported. It today represents a community of approximately 40,000 members, marked by a significant presence of Sephardim of Maghrebi origin.

Contemporary Jewish Museum

San Francisco, États-Unis

Museum of contemporary Jewish art (Daniel Libeskind building).

Holocaust and human rights museum-memorial opened in its new building on September 18, 2019 in Dallas. It documents the Holocaust, genocide and human rights violations while promoting education on tolerance. Principal institution of this type for northern Texas.

Danish Jewish Museum opened in June 2004 in the former Galley House of the Royal Library, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind around the Hebrew word "Mitzvah." It exhibits objects from Danish Jewish history and commemorates the rescue of Danish Jews in October 1943. A major reference point for Scandinavian Jewish memory.

Department of University College London, heir to Hebrew teaching provided at UCL since its foundation (chair from 1828), re-established in its current form in 1967. It is the only university department in the United Kingdom entirely dedicated to Hebrew and Jewish studies, and the largest in Europe; it houses the Institute of Jewish Studies.

Archives of exile 1933–1945, preserving the collections of many Jewish intellectuals and writers who became refugees. They document forced emigration under Nazism.

Digital geo-museum founded in 2008 by Jason Guberman and Fran Malino, flagship project of the Digital Heritage Mapping association. Diarna ("our homes" in Judeo-Arabic) digitally preserves Jewish heritage remnants in North Africa and the Middle East through geospatial mapping, 3D modeling, photography and oral histories, having already documented nearly 3,000 sites.

Affiliated with Bar-Ilan University, the Diaspora Research Institute conducts research on the history and culture of Jewish communities in the Diaspora, with particular emphasis on Eastern Europe and the Jews of the USSR in the twentieth century. It builds and maintains specialized archives, notably on Jewish community life in Eastern Europe before and after the Shoah, the Zionist movement in the Diaspora, and the social life of emigrant communities. The center publishes academic works in Hebrew, English, and other languages on the social and cultural history of Jews outside Israel. It cooperates closely with the Leo Baeck Institute in New York and European partners.

Yeshiva founded in 1965 by Rav Mordechai Goldstein and established on Mount Zion from 1967. Pioneer of the baal teshuva movement (religious return) for English-speaking students, it is also known for its role in the birth of Jewish rock (Diaspora Yeshiva Band).

Housed within ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in Tel-Aviv, the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center is the principal repository of Jewish genealogical resources in Israel, housing millions of records. It enables Jewish families in Israel and the diaspora to freely register and build their family trees.