520 Institutions(19)

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.

Institute for advanced Jewish study founded in 1979 by Rabbi David Silber in New York (Upper West Side), the first center dedicated to the study of classic Jewish texts (Bible, Talmud) by women. It has since expanded its teaching to all audiences and established a presence in Israel with Yeshivat Drisha (2018).

A secular academic institution founded in Philadelphia in 1907 through the bequest of Moses Aaron Dropsie, devoted to Hebrew, Semitic, and biblical studies at a strictly doctoral level. The first American college to award doctorates in Jewish studies without confessional theological instruction. It welcomed leading scholars such as Cyrus Adler and Abraham Katsh. Absorbed in 1986 by Dropsie University, and subsequently by the University of Pennsylvania.

An institution founded in 1829 in Metz under Napoleon and subsequently transferred to Paris, constituting the principal rabbinical training institution of French consistorial Judaism. It trained virtually all the rabbis of France, Algeria, and numerous French-speaking communities. Rabbi Zadoc Kahn was one of its emblematic directors in the nineteenth century. Distinct from the Séminaire israélite de France re-established in the twentieth century, it embodies the tradition of consistorial Judaism.

Launched in 2010 and funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme, EHRI is a distributed research infrastructure that federates archives, museum institutions, and Shoah documentation centers across Europe and beyond. Its online portal provides access to standardized descriptions of Shoah archival collections from more than 1,700 institutions in 50 countries. EHRI also offers mobility fellowships enabling researchers to access difficult-to-reach collections, and develops digital tools for the processing of historical data. It constitutes the principal European mechanism for coordinating and promoting Shoah archives dispersed around the world.

Multidisciplinary museum surrounding the archaeological site of Tel Qasile. It presents glassware, coins, ceramics, and the material history of the land.

Oldest working Jewish library; documentary heritage listed by UNESCO.

Founded in 1732 in the Spitalfields district, Etz Chaim is one of the oldest yeshivot in Western Europe and the oldest in England. It welcomed the children of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish immigrants and played a decisive role in the transmission of traditional Jewish education in Britain. Merged in the twentieth century with other institutions, it contributed to the founding of Jews' College (London School of Jewish Studies).

Established as an independent structure in 1986, the European Jewish Congress is the representative body of democratically elected Jewish communities in Europe, federating more than forty national communities. Based in Brussels, with offices in Paris, Strasbourg, Berlin, and Budapest, it is affiliated with the World Jewish Congress and engages in dialogue with EU institutions.

Shoah memorial museum that preserves notably an authentic railway car. It carries out significant educational work with schoolchildren.

Foundation created in 1994 at the initiative of Simon Lévy and the Council of Jewish Communities of Morocco to safeguard, restore and promote Judeo-Moroccan cultural heritage (synagogues, cemeteries, manuscripts, traditions). It founded the Museum of Moroccan Judaism in Casablanca in 1997 and restored the Ben Walid synagogues in Tétouan and Slat Elfassiyine in Fès.

Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah

Paris, France

Publicly recognized foundation supporting research, teaching, and remembrance of the Shoah. It funds numerous projects and institutions.

Founded in 1950, the Fonds Social Juif Unifié is the federating organization of French Jewry, managing the collection and redistribution of funds for Jewish institutions in France and aid to Israel. It coordinates the activity of some 700 French Jewish associations through its annual fundraising network (Keren Hayessod France). The FSJU also manages the Endowment Fund for the Memory of the Holocaust and participates in financing Jewish education, and the social and cultural life of Sephardic and Ashkenazic communities. Its bulletin and social studies constitute a valuable documentary source on the demography and sociology of contemporary French Jewry.

Archive of Yale University, a pioneer in recording filmed testimonies of survivors. It holds several thousand interviews.

Founded in 2016 in the United Kingdom, the Foundation for Jewish Heritage is an organization dedicated to the conservation and documentation of the Jewish built heritage in Europe, with particular attention to synagogues, cemeteries, and communal buildings at risk in countries where Jewish communities were decimated or dispersed. It conducts field surveys, builds photographic and architectural archives, and advocates for the legal protection of threatened sites, notably in Central and Eastern Europe. Its documentary cataloguing work contributes to knowledge of the communal history of Jews in regions where physical traces are disappearing. The foundation collaborates with EHRI and numerous European academic partners.

Foundation created by David N. Barocas in the 1960s to preserve and promote the secular culture of Sephardic communities from Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, Europe, and the United States. It publishes works on Sephardic history and culture and maintains an important online documentary resource on Judeo-Spanish and Sephardic heritage.

Founded in 1999 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with the support of the Minerva Foundation (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), this center is dedicated to the study of modern German Jewish philosophy and thought. Its work focuses notably on the writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and their contemporaries, as well as on Jewish-Christian relations in the twentieth century. It publishes critical editions and organizes international seminars.

Digitization and cataloguing of the Cairo Genizah and Jewish manuscripts.

Founded in Vilna in 1925 and established in Buenos Aires from 1928, the IWO is the direct heir of the interwar Yiddish studies movement, following the destruction of the Vilna headquarters by the Nazis. It holds more than 400 documentary collections on the history and culture of Jews in Argentina and Latin America, an extensive archived Jewish community press, a heritage library, and a museum. Recognized as a cultural heritage institution of the city of Buenos Aires in 2009, the IWO is developing an active digitization program for its collections. It constitutes an indispensable reference center for Yiddish studies outside Israel and the United States.

Memory of the victims of the Shoah and of the Jewish culture of Galicia.

Largest yeshiva in Europe, founded in 1929 in Gateshead by Dovid Dryan with the support of the Chofetz Chaim, originally of Novardok inspiration (« Beth Yosef »). Heart of an important center of Lithuanian Orthodox institutions in England.

Archive of the Hebrew Writers' Association preserving manuscripts, letters and personal papers of Israeli authors. It documents modern Hebrew literature.

The Gennadius Library, founded in 1926 by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, holds Hebrew and Judeo-Greek documents relating to Jewish communities in Greece, notably Salonika, Ioannina and Rhodes. It contains liturgical manuscripts, responsa from Greek rabbis, and commercial archives of Ottoman Jewish families. This collection is essential for the history of the Romaniotes and the Sephardim of Greece. It complements the Jewish Museum of Greece and is partially accessible to researchers.

Founded in 1993 by Suzan Wynne, Gesher Galicia is a non-profit organization dedicated to researching the Jewish roots of the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia (now western Ukraine and southeastern Poland). It indexes vital records, census registers, cadastral maps and archival documents, accessible via its "All Galicia Database" covering 1786-1945.

The Goldstein-Goren Center for Diaspora Research, affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, conducts research on the history and culture of Jewish communities around the world. Its projects cover Italia Judaica, Jews of Ukraine and Belarus, Jews under Islamic rule, Jews of the Balkans and Turkey, Ladino culture, and Jewish art. It houses the Mehlman Library, a specialized library, and publishes the academic journal Michael as well as numerous monographs. Its cooperation with the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism enriches its documentary holdings.

Founded in 1976 at Tel Aviv University, this research center specializes in the history and sociology of Jewish communities in the Diaspora in the modern and contemporary period. It publishes the academic journal Jewish History and coordinates comparative research projects on several communities (Sephardim, Ashkenazim, Beta Israel). Scholars such as Yosef Kaplan and Shmuel Ettinger have worked there.

Founded in 1895 in Philadelphia thanks to a bequest by philanthropist Hyman Gratz, Gratz College is the oldest independent college of Jewish studies in North America. Established in Melrose Park, it was the first Jewish higher education institution to admit women on equal terms with men.

Large private collection of Judaica: manuscripts, silverware, textiles, amulets.

National theater of Israel, one of the first theaters in the Hebrew language. Founded as a troupe in 1912 in Białystok by Nahum Zemach, it moved to Palestine and settled permanently in Tel-Aviv in 1931. Official national theater since 1958, it occupies the Habima square building in central Tel-Aviv and receives the Israel Prize for theater.

Jewish educational institution founded in 2006 by rabbis Shai Held, Elie Kaunfer, and Ethan Tucker, in New York (Upper West Side), carrying a vision that is both traditional and egalitarian in Judaism. It operates Yeshivat Hadar (intensive Torah study, rabbinical ordination since 2019) and widely disseminates content and training.

Founded in New York in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, who made healthcare a priority (official name adopted in 1914). One of the world's largest Jewish organizations, it funds health and education programs in Israel, notably the Hadassah Medical Organization and its hospitals in Jerusalem.

Third-largest art museum in Israel, founded in 1951 in Haifa on the occasion of a major Marc Chagall exhibition, in a wing of the municipality. Housed since 1977 in a stone building in the Wadi Nisnas neighborhood, it is devoted to contemporary Israeli and international art and preserves some 7,000 works.

A British association founded in 1993, devoted to preserving the Memory and heritage of Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin living in the United Kingdom. Harif (an acronym for 'Historical and Research Information on Forgotten Jews') collects oral testimonies, photographs, and family documents from communities of Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Libya, and Morocco. The association publishes a regular bulletin and organizes conferences in partnership with British universities and London museums. It advocates for the recognition of the rights of Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries after 1948.

Holocaust center established in 1983 at Queensborough Community College (CUNY), in Bayside in Queens, one of the first Holocaust archives on the East Coast. It houses a specialized library, exhibition galleries and hundreds of testimonies from local survivors.

Private college of Jewish studies founded in November 1921 in Roxbury under the name Hebrew Teachers College, by Louis Hurwich. Located since 2001 in Newton Centre, near Boston, it offers Jewish studies curricula, a rabbinical school and a hazzanut program.

Known as the « Skokie Yeshiva », this Orthodox institution was founded in Chicago in 1921 (rabbis Chaim Tzvi Rubinstein and Saul Silber) and transferred to Skokie in 1958. It trains rabbis and teachers; it is today affiliated with Touro University.

Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion

Cincinnati, États-Unis

Oldest institution of Jewish studies in the United States; seminary of Reform Judaism.

Publishing house of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, founded in 1929 and named after Yehuda Leib Magnes, the university's first president. The oldest and largest university press in Israel, it publishes in Hebrew and English authoritative scientific literature, notably on Jewish Studies.

Former seat of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, today housing the Wolfson Museum of Jewish Art. It preserves ceremonial objects and Judaica.

A memorial center established in 1983 on the very site of the former Dutch transit camp of Westerbork, from which more than 100,000 Jews, Sinti, and Roma — including Anne Frank — were deported to the extermination camps between 1942 and 1944. Its collections comprise more than 11,000 items: archives, filmed testimonies, and period photographs, including the celebrated footage filmed by a detainee in 1944. The site preserves several original camp structures.

Founded in New York in 1881 to aid Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe fleeing antisemitic persecution; the acronym HIAS becomes the official name after the 1909 merger (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society). Today it is a Jewish humanitarian organization assisting refugees and displaced persons of all origins.

Scholarly society founded in 1996 in Brooklyn to preserve and transmit to future generations the rich heritage of Egyptian Jewry. It structures its work around committees dedicated to archives, education, genealogy, publication, and research, and constitutes an important online documentary resource on this community.

Higher Institute for the Science of Judaism (Leo Baeck), closed by the Nazis in 1942.

Higher education institution founded in 1979 by the Central Council of Jews in Germany, with a first cohort of 16 students. Working closely with Heidelberg University, it is the leading German institution dedicated to university training in Jewish studies.

The first center dedicated to Holocaust education in Japan, founded in 1995 in Fukuyama (Hiroshima Prefecture) by Pastor Makoto Otsuka, following a 1971 encounter with Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank. A documentation center and unique pedagogical site in the archipelago, it holds a collection of artifacts related to Anne Frank's life and presents exhibitions on the persecution of the Jews. It forms a singular memorial bridge between Japan's wartime experience and the Holocaust.

The first national Holocaust memorial center in Central Europe, inaugurated in 2004 in the former synagogue on Páva Street in Budapest. Its permanent exhibition, 'From Deprivation of Rights to Genocide,' documents the deportation of more than 437,000 Hungarian Jews in 1944. The center also conducts research and educational programs aimed at young Hungarians.

Holocaust memorial dedicated on 4 February 1990 in Miami Beach, designed by Kenneth Treister. Famous for its "Sculpture of Love and Anguish", a massive bronze arm, it honours the six million Jews murdered and welcomes many visitors each year.

Holocaust memorial museum, the first Holocaust museum in the Southeastern United States, opened to the public in 1986 in Maitland (Orlando area), stemming from a project launched in 1981 by survivor Tess Wise. It carries out a mission of Holocaust and tolerance education for central Florida.

Holocaust memorial museum emerging from the Rockland County commission (1979) and established in 1981, long known as the "Holocaust Memorial and Study Center." Located since 2015 on the Rockland Community College campus in Suffern, it combines Holocaust memory with education in tolerance for Rockland County.

Holocaust museum-memorial founded in 1961 by survivors in Los Angeles (Pan Pacific Park). It is the oldest Holocaust museum in the United States, formerly « Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust ». It holds one of the largest American collections of objects from the Holocaust period and conducts an important educational mission.

The only centre dedicated to Holocaust education and the promotion of tolerance in China, founded by the Hong Kong Jewish community. It offers educational programmes for local schools, a specialist library, and travelling exhibitions for schools in the region. Its mission is to make the history of the Shoah known in an Asian context where this episode remains largely unknown.

Medieval Hebrew manuscripts (rabbinic, philosophy, kabbalah) from several regions.

Founded in Amsterdam in 1935, the International Institute of Social History is one of the world's largest repositories of labor movement archives. It holds in particular the archives of the Bund (Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund), acquired as early as 1934, a primary source for the history of Jewish socialism in Eastern Europe. Its Yiddish collection brings together books, pamphlets, periodicals, and tracts from the Jewish socialist and anarchist movement of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These holdings are fully accessible through the institution's online digital catalogue.

Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

Skokie, Illinois, États-Unis

Major memorial museum born of the mobilization of survivors from the Chicago region. It preserves archives and testimonies and offers interactive holograms.

Imperial War Museum — Holocaust Galleries

Londres, Royaume-Uni

Permanent galleries devoted to the Holocaust within the Imperial War Museum. They present objects, testimonies, and documents on the persecution of Europe's Jews.

Founded in Bombay in 1917, the Indian Jewish Association is the principal representative organization of the Bene Israel, the oldest and largest Jewish community in India. It oversees the synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish schools of Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, and other Indian cities, and coordinates exchanges with the Bene Israel diaspora in Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The association documents the distinctive liturgical traditions of the Bene Israel, a blend of Indian influences, Sephardic rites introduced by Baghdadi emissaries, and practices developed in isolation. It organizes celebrations of Jewish holidays adapted to the Indian context and maintains ties with the Cochin Jews and Baghdadi Jews communities of India.

Study of Eastern Jewish communities; ~3,000 manuscripts and archives.

An academic center founded in 1970 within the Université Libre de Bruxelles, specializing in the history of Jews in Belgium and in modern Jewish thought. It organizes postgraduate courses in Jewish studies and collaborates with Belgian communal archives. It has notably produced pioneering works on the history of the Jews of Antwerp and of Eastern European immigrants in Belgium.

+100,000 manuscripts including Hebrew and Karaite collections (Firkovich) and Genizah material.

Institute of university education created in 2011 by the Alliance Israélite Universelle, placed under the aegis of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, who long directed the École Normale Israélite Orientale. Located at the Centre Alliance Edmond J. Safra in Paris, it offers training and university degrees in ethics and Jewish thought.

Founded in 1997 at the University of Basel, this institute is the principal Swiss academic center for Jewish studies, with a strong orientation in religious studies, medieval and modern Jewish history, and Hebrew literature. Basel, the city where the first Zionist Congress was held in 1897, lends the institute a particular historical distinction. It offers programs from bachelor's to doctoral level and hosts international researchers.

Largest collection in Poland on Polish Jews; Ringelblum ghetto archives.

Archive and research center devoted to Revisionist Zionism and Zeev Jabotinsky. It documents the Irgun, the Betar, and the Lehi.

Archives of the Jewish labor movement and the Histadrut. They hold the records of socialist Zionism and trade unionism in Israel.

Higher education institution affiliated with Masorti (Conservative) Judaism in Israel. It trains rabbis and teachers and conducts research in Jewish studies.

Research institute attached to the JTS, dedicated to medieval Hebrew poetry and the manuscripts of the Genizah. It continues the work of Salomon Schocken.

Institute dedicated to Sephardic culture founded in 1993 in Brussels by Moïse Rahmani. It collects, centralizes, and makes available written, audio, and visual documents testifying to the richness of Sephardic communities (Greece, Turkey, North Africa, Hispano-Portuguese Judaism before 1492). It publishes the journal Los Muestros and contributed to the recognition of Judeo-Spanish as a minority language by the European Parliament.

Pluralistic research institute in Jewish thought founded by Rabbi David Hartman. It trains educators and leaders and publishes works of Jewish philosophy.

Institute founded by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz to edit and translate the Babylonian Talmud. It made the text accessible in modern Hebrew, English, and other languages.

Higher education institute founded in 2005 in Paris under the patronage of Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner. Established on rue Lafayette with branches in the Île-de-France region, it is France's only institution entirely dedicated to higher education in Jewish studies, in an interdisciplinary approach.

Institute of research in the humanities and social sciences, located near the Israel Academy of Sciences. It conducts work on culture, Judaism, and society.

Scientific research institute founded as the Sieff Institute, renamed in honor of Chaim Weizmann. It holds the Weizmann archives.

Research centre on the Jewish communities of the Middle East and the land of Israel, founded by Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. It holds a rich library and publishes the journal Pe'amim.

Founded in 1942 under the name of the Institute of Jewish Affairs, the JPR is an independent research centre specialising in policies affecting Jewish communities in Europe and the world. It produces reference demographic, sociological, and political studies on Jews of the diaspora. Its reports are regularly cited by governments and international organisations. It publishes in particular the major surveys on European Jewish populations.

Center for Hebrew and Sephardic studies created in 1941 within the CSIC by Francisco Cantera Burgos and José María Millás Vallicrosa, named after humanist Benito Arias Montano. It promotes research on the history and culture of the Jews of Spain and has published since 1941 the scholarly journal Sefarad; today it is integrated into the Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo.

Created in 1988, the IAJGS is a nonprofit federation that coordinates the activities of more than 80 Jewish genealogy societies throughout the world. It organizes the annual international conference on Jewish genealogy, defends the common interests of its members and promotes research and the dissemination of knowledge in Jewish family history.

Founded in 2004 by an international committee of eminent genealogists and registered as an Israeli association, the IIJG opened its doors at the National Library of Israel in January 2006. It aims to establish Jewish genealogy as an academic discipline, by funding and coordinating scholarly research projects and housing the Paul Jacobi Center.

Discovered in 2003 by the American military in the basement of Saddam Hussein's intelligence service headquarters, this archive comprises 2,700 books and tens of thousands of documents belonging to the Jewish community of Iraq, spanning five centuries of history. The collection — written in Hebrew, Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, and English — includes sixteenth-century talmudic commentaries, communal records, and personal correspondence. Restored by NARA at a cost of three million dollars, it is fully digitized and accessible online. Its legal status remains contested, with Iraq and associations of Iraqi Jews each claiming its restitution.

National Academy of Israel for sciences and humanities, established by a Knesset law in 1961 (proclaimed by Martin Buber in 1959). Located on Albert Einstein Square in Jerusalem, it brings together the country's most eminent researchers, advises the government on research of national interest and represents Israeli science internationally.

Independent public authority in charge of Israel's archaeological heritage, established by law in 1989 (effective 1 April 1990) in replacement of the Department of Antiquities. It regulates excavations and conservation, conducts the Archaeological Survey of Israel, manages the Rockefeller Museum, and ensures enforcement of the antiquities law.

Learned society for archaeology and the study of the Land of Israel, founded in 1913 as the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society in the context of the Yishuv's Zionist activity, and refounded in 1920. Renamed in 1948, it promotes geographical, historical and archaeological research and publishes leading scholarly journals.

Launched publicly in January 2012 by seasoned Israeli genealogists, IGRA is the largest genealogy society of Israel. It indexes and publishes online a wide variety of documents held in Israeli archives — censuses, vital records, administrative and military documents — from the Ottoman period to the early years of the Israeli State.

Israel Museum — Sanctuaire du Livre

Jérusalem, Israël

Home to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Aleppo Codex.

Israel's principal symphony orchestra, founded in 1936 under the name Palestine Symphony Orchestra by violinist Bronisław Huberman, who thereby saved many Jewish musicians expelled from European orchestras. Its inaugural concert in Tel-Aviv on 26 December 1936 was conducted by Arturo Toscanini. It took its current name in 1948.

Center at Brandeis University, founded in 2002 in partnership with the Mandel Foundation, the first university center of its kind dedicated to improving Jewish education through rigorous study of teaching and learning practices. It connects researchers and practitioners in the Jewish education field through programs, conferences, and research.

Largest research center on American Jewish history.

Museum dedicated to the Romanian Jewish artist Marcel Janco, co-founder of Dadaism. It preserves his works and documents the avant-garde.

The archives of the Joint Distribution Committee, founded in 1914, form one of the most important collections for the study of modern Jewish history: more than 5 kilometers of textual documents, 100,000 photographs, 1,100 oral recordings, and 2,500 videos. The New York site holds the central administration files (up to 1975) and the Jerusalem site holds the records of field offices in Europe, Africa, and Asia. They document humanitarian aid provided to Jewish communities around the world, from the two World Wars to emigration to Israel. Access is open to researchers by appointment and through the digital portal.

Jewish studies center at the University of Michigan, formally created in 1988 through the endowment of Jean and Samuel Frankel. A $20 million gift in 2005 established the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, one of the largest endowments ever devoted to Jewish Studies at an American university. It offers teaching, research and scholars' residencies.

Country's leading higher music conservatory, founded in 1933 by violinist Emil Hauser. Renamed Rubin Academy of Music in 1958 through patron Samuel Rubin's support, it added a dance department in 1965. Relocated to the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University in 2003, it is the major national academy of music and dance.

Cinemathèque founded in 1973 by Lia van Leer, initially at Beit Agron, then from 1981 in a building overlooking the Old City. It houses the Israel Film Archive (created in 1963), which preserves Israeli films from the 1920s onward, and organizes the Jerusalem Film Festival; a major institution of national cinema culture.

Principal orchestra of Jerusalem, founded in 1936 by the Palestine Broadcasting Service as the musical wing of Kol Yerushalayim, the first radio broadcasting in Hebrew. After 1948 it became the orchestra of Kol Yisrael, then in the 1970s the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, commissioning and premiering many Israeli works.

Established in 1929 (initially Jewish Agency for Palestine), it was the recognized executive arm of the Zionist movement under the British Mandate. The first world organization to facilitate aliyah (Jewish immigration to Israel), it works to bring Israel and the diaspora together and to absorb immigrants.

Established in 1999 from the merger of the Council of Jewish Federations, the United Jewish Appeal, and the United Israel Appeal (initially named United Jewish Communities, renamed JFNA in 2009). Umbrella organization representing over 350 independent Jewish federations in North America, it raises and redistributes philanthropic funds.

A society founded in 1992 in London, dedicated to Jewish genealogical research in Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries. It publishes the quarterly journal 'Shemot' and maintains databases on birth, marriage, and death records of British Jewish communities since the seventeenth century. The JGSGB organizes research workshops, conferences, and digitization projects for communal archives, including records of London's Sephardic synagogues dating back to the Cromwellian period. It collaborates with the National Archives and university libraries to facilitate access to primary sources.

Founded in 1977 by Arthur Kurzweil in New York, the Jewish Genealogical Society was the very first Jewish genealogy society in the world and inspired the creation of more than ninety similar societies. A non-profit organization, it offers monthly lectures, workshops and research outings, and has since 1997 built searchable online index databases.

Museum and research center on Jewish history and culture.

Centuries of British Jewish life through art, objects and archives.

Jewish museum opened in 2008 in Milwaukee, program of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, stemming from Jewish archives created in 1986. It preserves and presents the Jewish experience through the prism of greater Milwaukee and celebrates the continuity of Jewish heritage and culture.

Jewish museum founded in 1995 in Miami Beach (South Beach), the only institution dedicated to over 250 years of Jewish history in Florida. Housed in two restored historic synagogues, it preserves over 100,000 objects and has been affiliated with Florida International University since 2012.

Jewish museum founded in 1960 in Baltimore to save the historic Lloyd Street synagogue (1845). It traces the Jewish experience in Baltimore and Maryland and constitutes one of the principal American centers for exhibitions on Jewish history and culture. Its campus includes two historic synagogues and rich collections of ceremonial art and archives.

Holds handwritten copies of Ankawa texts and a significant collection of medieval Hebrew manuscripts.

Founded in 1987 by Susan E. King, JewishGen is the world's reference organization for Jewish genealogy, which became in 2003 a division of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. It provides access to more than 22 million records (vital records, burials, Holocaust archives), family trees, index databases by country and translations of hundreds of Yizkor Books.

Non-profit organization founded in 2002 by Jews from the Bay Area originally from North Africa and the Middle East. It preserves Sephardic and Mizrahi culture and history, collects testimonies from Jewish refugees from Arab countries and Iran, and develops educational resources integrating the history of these communities into school curricula.

Jewish Museum of Oslo, established as a foundation in 2003 and opened to the public in 2008 in the former synagogue on Calmeyers gate. It traces the history of the Norwegian Jewish community, notably the deportation during the Holocaust. It is one of two Jewish museums in Norway, a central institution for Jewish memory in the country.

Inaugurated in March 2019 in Johannesburg (Forest Town), this center explores the history of the Holocaust and the 1994 Rwandan genocide by placing them in dialogue with contemporary human rights issues in South Africa. It is the first public-private partnership of this kind with the City of Johannesburg and serves as a complement to the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town. Its permanent exhibitions are designed for school audiences in South Africa.

John Rylands Library — collections hébraïques

Manchester, Royaume-Uni

~300 Hebrew codices and ~15,000 Genizah fragments; autographs of Maimonides.

The only museum in the Netherlands dedicated to Jewish history, in four former synagogues.

A non-profit organization founded in 1995, JRI-Poland has built the largest online database of Jewish civil registration records from Poland and historically Polish territories, indexing more than 6.1 million birth, marriage, and death records from more than 550 localities. It also makes available censuses, resident lists, military and school registers, and death notices. Its tools are used by genealogists, historians, and families seeking to trace relatives who were victims of the Shoah. JRI-Poland collaborates closely with POLIN and the JDC Archives.

Founded in 1854 in Breslau through the bequest of Jonas Fränkel, this seminary was the first modern rabbinical training institution in Germany and the birthplace of the historico-critical method (Wissenschaft des Judentums). Heinrich Graetz taught there for decades and wrote his monumental Geschichte der Juden there. The seminary trained hundreds of rabbis until its forced closure in 1938.

Jüdisches Museum Berlin

Berlin, Allemagne

Largest Jewish museum in Europe (Daniel Libeskind building); history of the Jews of Germany.

Jewish Museum of Switzerland founded in Basel in 1966, the first Jewish museum in the German-speaking region of Europe after World War II. It presents the religious and daily history of the Jews of Basel and Switzerland through ritual objects and art, from the Middle Ages to the present, including the collection of mappot from Lengnau.

Oldest municipal Jewish museum in Germany.

Regional museum of Jewish life in Hohenems and the Vorarlberg.

Jüdisches Museum Wien

Vienne, Autriche

Heir to the world's first Jewish museum (1895); history of the Jews of Vienna.

Jewish Museum of Stockholm founded in 1987 by Viola and Aron Neuman, the first Jewish museum in the Nordic countries. Since 2016, it has been located in the old town (Gamla stan), on the site of an eighteenth-century synagogue. It documents Jewish history and culture in Sweden and is a major institution in Scandinavia.

Advocacy coalition founded in 2002 by the Conference of Presidents, the World Jewish Congress, the American Sephardi Federation and the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries. It documents the history and works toward recognition of approximately 850,000 Jews displaced from Arab countries and Iran after 1948, collecting testimonies and advocating for their rights.

Established in 1980 at the University of Cape Town through a donation from the Kaplan-Kushlick Foundation, the Kaplan Centre is the principal documentation center for the history of Jews in South Africa and southern Africa. Its archives include hundreds of oral interviews with members of the Jewish communities of Cape Town and Johannesburg, genealogical databases, passenger arrival registers from 1890 to 1930, and numerous communal collections. In partnership with the South African Jewish Museum, it leads the Jewish Digital Archive Project (JDAP), dedicated to preserving the social memory of the Jews of southern Africa. Its SA Jewish Rootsbank resources are freely accessible online.

Founded in 1993 (formerly the Annenberg Research Institute), the Katz Center is one of the leading postdoctoral research centers in Jewish studies in the United States. Each year it hosts a cohort of international fellows around an interdisciplinary annual theme. It is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania and benefits from the extensive collections of the Penn Libraries, including the Genizah collection. Its fellowship model has influenced other similar institutes.

Located in Mechelen in the former barracks that served as a Nazi transit camp, from which 25,274 Jews and 354 Roma were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1942 and 1944. The museum, inaugurated in November 2012, documents the persecution of Jews and Roma in Belgium and northern France through archives, testimonies, and personal objects. It also houses the Documentation Center on the Holocaust in Belgium.

KBR — Bibliothèque royale de Belgique

Bruxelles, Belgique

Collection of medieval manuscripts including Hebrew manuscripts.

Created at the Zionist Congress in London in 1920 as the principal fundraising body of the Zionist movement, it transferred its headquarters from London to Jerusalem in 1926. It funds aliyah, immigrant absorption, and social and educational projects in Israel.

Founded at the 5th Zionist Congress in Basel in 1901 to purchase and develop land in Ottoman Palestine for Jewish settlement. Known for its reforestation campaigns and land development, it remains one of Israel's principal landowners and environmental actors.

Library of the Hebrew Union College, one of the largest Judaica libraries in the world. It holds Hebrew manuscripts, incunabula, and the Birnbaum collection.

Publishing house of Jewish religious texts founded in 1961 by typographer Eliyahu Koren, with the ambition to produce the first Hebrew Bible entirely designed, edited and printed by Jews in nearly five centuries. The Koren Bible (1962) is the reference standard: recognized by the Chief Rabbinate, it serves for the presidential oath-taking in Israel.

Institute founded in 1995 in Leipzig, associated with Leipzig University and a member of the Leibniz Association, named in honour of historian Simon Dubnow. An interdisciplinary institute, it studies the Jewish experience in Central and Eastern Europe, from early modernity to the present day.

Leo Baeck College

Londres, Royaume-Uni

Seminary of British Progressive Judaism.

Leo Baeck Institute

New York / Jérusalem / Londres

Research on German-speaking Jewry; archives and collections of émigrés.

House of Yiddish culture in Tel-Aviv, inaugurated in 1970 under the impetus of writer Mordechai Tsanin, named after poet H. Leivick. It houses the Association of Yiddish Writers and Journalists of Israel, the H. Leyvik publishing house, and the Israeli Center for Yiddish Culture, organizing publications and activities to preserve this culture.

Library of Congress — Hebraic Section

Washington, États-Unis

Vast Hebrew collection from the Schiff-Deinard gift: books, periodicals, manuscripts.

An organization founded following the forced expulsion of Jews from Libya in 1948–1949 and 1967, representing the approximately 130,000 descendants of the Libyan Jewish community living primarily in Israel, Italy, and the United States. Or Chadash ("new light") documents the culture, customs, and history of the Jews of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, whose origins date back to Antiquity. The organization maintains archives of communal registers and photographs saved during the expulsions, and advocates for international recognition of the refugee status of Libyan Jews and the restitution of their property. It manages the Museum of the Libyan Jewish Community in Netanya and organizes hillulot for revered rabbis of the Libyan tradition.

Jewish museum opened June 9, 2023 in Washington, the first museum entirely dedicated to Jewish life in the nation's capital. Building encompassing the city's oldest synagogue (Adas Israel, 1876), it presents the exhibition "Connect. Reflect. Act" and preserves objects related to figures such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Founded in 1998 as an extension of a research mission in Lithuania supported by JewishGen, LitvakSIG has the mission of discovering, collecting, documenting and preserving the history of the Jewish community (Litvak) of Lithuania. Its « All Lithuania Database » provides free access to more than 1.2 million records of Lithuanian archives.

Rabbinical college founded by Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler.

Founded in 1921 at the congress in Karlovy Vary (Czechoslovakia), it is the largest international Jewish sports organization, present on multiple continents with hundreds of thousands of members. Its headquarters is in Ramat Gan and it organizes the Maccabiah Games, the world Jewish athletic event.

The Klaus synagogue, built in 1694, houses within the Jewish Museum of Prague a reference library distinct from the collection of the Pinkas Synagogue, centred on the rabbinical traditions of Prague and Bohemia. It holds Ashkenazi manuscripts from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, notably texts connected to the school of the Maharal of Prague. This collection documents the intellectual life of the Bohemian Jewish community at its height. It is accessible to researchers on request at the Jewish Museum of Prague.

Founded in 2015 at the University of Hamburg with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG), this center is devoted to the study of skepticism and epistemology in medieval and modern Judeo-philosophical thought. It draws on the intellectual legacy of Maimonides to explore dialogues between Jewish, Islamic, and Christian thought. International colloquia and high-level publications sustain its scholarly output.

Maison d'Anne Frank

Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

Museum in the Annex where Anne Frank hid; memory and education.

Memorial to the 44 Jewish children rounded up in 1944 on Klaus Barbie's orders.

Memorial and educational center in the villa where the Wannsee Conference was held in 1942. It documents the planning of the 'final solution.'

Maison de la culture yiddish — Bibliothèque Medem

Paris, France

Largest Yiddish library in Europe; preservation of the Yiddish language and culture.

The first Holocaust museum in the world, founded in 1949 by survivors and fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising who had taken refuge in Israel. Its archives hold letters, diaries, filmed testimonies, and works of art created in the ghettos and camps. The museum also houses the Yad LaYeled humanistic education center, dedicated to the Memory of the 1.5 million Jewish children who were murdered.

Hungarian memorial centre dedicated to the child victims of the Shoah, housed in a former railway station. It documents the deportation of Hungary's Jews in 1944.

The birthplace of 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, transformed into a museum and memorial space in Sighetu Marmației (northern Transylvania). It traces the history of the Jewish community of Maramureș and documents the Holocaust in this region, from which tens of thousands of Jews were deported to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944. The site is managed by the International Center for the Study of Judaism in Romania.

Jewish heritage museum opened on 11 October 2005 in Beachwood, in the Cleveland suburbs. It presents the history of Jewish immigration and life, the American Jewish experience and the Holocaust, and is the principal Jewish cultural institution in northeast Ohio.

Jewish museum located in Cheetham Hill in a former Sephardic synagogue of Moorish style (1874). Opened in 1984, it traces over two centuries of history of the Jewish community of Manchester. Following renovation, it reopened in July 2021 with a new gallery. It is one of the principal Jewish museums in northern England.

Museum dedicated to the School of Paris painter Mané-Katz, housed in his former studio. It preserves his works and his collection of Judaica.

Multidisciplinary research center at Brandeis University, founded in 1980, dedicated to the study of contemporary Jewish life. It conducts empirical research on Jewish communities, demographics (American Jewish Population Project), education and engagement, and provides benchmark data for academia and institutions.

Important collection of fragments from the Cairo Genizah held by the Jewish Theological Seminary, complementing Cambridge. It documents medieval Jewish life.

Formerly the Jewish Holocaust Centre, founded by survivors who settled in Melbourne. It preserves archives, objects, and testimonies relating to the Shoah.

Founded in 1963 at the Hebrew University with the support of the Melton Foundation, this center is dedicated to research and training in Jewish education on an international scale. It develops curricula and pedagogical methods, and trains teachers and principals of Jewish schools from around the world. It notably designed the Melton Adult Mini-School program, which has been implemented in dozens of Diaspora communities.

Germany's central Holocaust memorial: 2,711 stelae and an information center.

Memorial site of the ravine where nearly 34,000 Jews were massacred in September 1941. It commemorates one of the largest killings of the Shoah by bullets.

Memorial facing the Cité de la Muette, the main internment camp for the Jews of France. Managed by the Mémorial de la Shoah, it documents the deportations.

Museum, documentation center (CDJC) and memorial dedicated to the Shoah.

National memorial of the Montluc prison in Lyon, where many Jews and resistance members were held. It documents repression under the Occupation.

A forested site on the outskirts of Vilnius where approximately 70,000 Jews were massacred between 1941 and 1944 by the German Einsatzgruppen and their Lithuanian auxiliaries — one of the largest mass extermination sites on European soil. A renovated visitor center, opened in 2018, presents photographic archives and the findings of recent archaeological excavations. This site constitutes the central Memory of the annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry.

Memorial of the ghetto-camp where tens of thousands of Jews were interned. It documents the 'model town' used by Nazi propaganda.

Memorial of one of the main internment camps in southern France. It documents the internment of foreign Jews and other persecuted people.

Memorial commemorating the Vél d'Hiv roundup of July 1942. It honors the thousands of Jews rounded up by the French police and deported.

One of the first museums created on a Nazi extermination site, near Lublin. It preserves the remains of the camp and documents the murder of the Jews.

Memorial of the Aktion Reinhard extermination camp, where about 450,000 Jews perished. It is co-managed with the Museum of Polish Jews.

Memorial of the extermination camp that was the scene of a prisoners' revolt in 1943. It documents the murder of some 250,000 Jews.

Memorial of the first Nazi concentration camp, opened as early as 1933. It documents the camp system and the persecution of Jews and opponents.

Memorial site of the former concentration camp near Berlin. It documents deportation and extermination, including that of many Jewish prisoners.

Mexican museum devoted to the memory of genocides, including the Holocaust, and to the promotion of tolerance. It raises awareness of human rights among a broad public.

A memorial inaugurated on 27 January 2013 in the basement of Milan's central station, at underground platform 21 (Binario 21), from which convoys carried arrested Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is the only European deportation site to have remained entirely intact in its original architecture. The memorial hosts permanent and temporary exhibitions as well as an educational program for Italian schools.

The Mendel Gottesman Library at Yeshiva University in New York holds one of the most important collections of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic archives and manuscripts in the United States. Its special collections include medieval manuscripts, Hebrew incunabula, Sephardic and Ashkenazic communal archives, and collections from the American Jewish press. Its Archives & Special Collections are open to researchers by appointment and participate in several digitization programs in partnership with Israeli and European institutions. The library is a member of the Center for Jewish History network.

Yeshiva of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, founded in 1907, world-renowned for having at its head from 1938 Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, one of the greatest halakhic authorities of American Orthodox Judaism. Institution of Lithuanian orientation.

An association founded in France to preserve and transmit the cultural and religious heritage of the Jews of Morocco. It organizes the annual celebration of the Mimouna, the traditional Moroccan festival marking the end of Pessah, which has become a symbol of Judeo-Berber-Arab dialogue. The association documents the culinary, musical, and ritual traditions of the Moroccan Jewish community in the Diaspora. It constitutes a living bridge between generations born in Morocco and their descendants established in France, Israel, and Canada.

American branch of the legendary Mir yeshiva, refounded in Brooklyn in 1946 by Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz, an actor in the rescue of Mir students during the Holocaust. Located in Flatbush, it was long directed by Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum. Major Lithuanian yeshiva (litvish).

A research institute founded in Jerusalem in 1978, dedicated to the study and promotion of the heritage of Sephardic and Oriental communities. It publishes academic works on rabbinic literature, liturgical poetry (piyoutim), and the customs of communities from the Mediterranean basin, the Middle East, and North Africa. The institute preserves rare manuscripts and documents relating to Sephardic kehillot dispersed throughout the world. Its collections cover in particular the traditions of communities from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Morocco, and the Balkans.

First rural museum in Israel and the first museum run by a kibbutz, born in 1937 from an "art corner" organized by painter Haim Atar at Ein Harod. Its building, designed by Samuel Bickels, was inaugurated in 1948. Specializing in the art of Jewish diaspora artists and Jewish folk art, it preserves more than 20,000 works.

Association founded under French law, dedicated to the preservation and transmission of the cultural and traditional memory of Algerian Jews. It gathers testimonies, archives and genealogical resources, and manages a Circle of Jewish Genealogy; its documentary collection is intended to be deposited at the Museum of Art and History of Judaism (mahJ) in Paris.

Centre affiliated with the University of Potsdam, founded in 1992 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, under the founding direction of Julius H. Schoeps. It is dedicated to interdisciplinary research on the history and culture of European Jewry, from early modernity to the present day.

Inaugurated on 9 May 2016 under the auspices of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, the Mirilashvili Centre is specifically dedicated to research on the fate of Jews living in the territories of the USSR on 22 June 1941. It funds documentary projects, annotated collections of archival sources, and cooperation with research institutes in the former USSR, Israel, Europe, and the United States. Its thematic scope covers Jews under German occupation, Jewish soldiers in the Red Army, Soviet policy toward Jews, and the effects of the Shoah on post-Soviet identities. It publishes annual reports and proceedings of international conferences.

Religious research foundation and rabbinical publishing house in Jerusalem, created in 1937 by Yehuda Leib Maimon, named after Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. It has published more than 2,000 works, including the biblical series Daat Mikra, critical editions of Rishonim and the "Rambam LaAm", references of scholarly Jewish publication.

Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ)

Paris, France

Largest French museum of Jewish art; medieval to 20th-century art, library and archives.

Great Portuguese Sephardic synagogue of Amsterdam, intact since the 17th century. It preserves its original furnishings and adjoins the Ets Haim library.

National museum of the history of the Jews of Italy and of the Shoah, housed in a former prison in Ferrara. It traces more than two thousand years of Jewish presence in Italy.

Museum-memorial on the site of the former Nazi extermination camp.

National museum devoted to Lithuanian Jewish heritage, named in honor of the Vilna Gaon. It documents the 'Jerusalem of the North' and the Shoah in Lithuania.

Musée d'Israël — Aile de l'archéologie et galeries de judaïca

Jérusalem, Israël

The Jewish Art and Life wing of the Israel Museum presents reconstructed synagogues and ceremonial objects from around the world. It complements the Shrine of the Book.

Adjoining the Paradesi synagogue of Kochi (1568), the only Jewish place of worship still active in India, this small museum traces the history of the Cochin Jews, one of the oldest Jewish communities in India. It presents copper plates dating from tolerance agreements granted by local kings, liturgical objects of local influence, and testimonies on the mass emigration to Israel after 1948. The synagogue and its museum are listed within the architectural heritage of the State of Kerala.

This museum, managed by the official Jewish community of Iran — one of the oldest in the world (presence attested since Persian Antiquity) — presents ritual objects, Hebrew and Judeo-Persian manuscripts, textiles, and testimonies on the life of Iranian Jews across the Safavid, Qajar, and Pahlavi dynasties. The collection notably illustrates the particular links between the Jewish tradition and Persian culture in poetry, calligraphy, and goldsmithing. The institution operates in a constrained political context and its collections are partially accessible to foreign researchers.

Founded in 1884 by the Sassoon family, the Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue is the heart of Mumbai's Baghdadi Jewish community and today constitutes a heritage monument managed by a communal trust. Listed as part of Mumbai's architectural heritage, it houses silver Torah scrolls bearing inscriptions in Judeo-Arabic and ritual objects brought from Iraq and Persia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The trust maintains an educational program documenting the history of the Baghdadi Jews who played a central role in the cotton, opium, and real estate trade in Bombay. The institution maintains relations with the David Sassoon Library Trust and the World Mizrahi Organization.

The first Holocaust museum inaugurated in Brazil (2011), founded by the Jewish community of Curitiba, capital of the State of Paraná. It documents the Shoah through photographs, artefacts, and testimonies, and offers educational programmes for Brazilian schools. The museum is part of an effort of Memory and of the struggle against antisemitism and intolerance in Brazil.

Memorial museum founded by survivors settled in Texas. It offers exhibitions, testimonies and educational programmes on the Shoah.

Founded in 1979, it is the oldest Holocaust museum in Canada, holding the country's largest collection of oral testimonies from survivors (more than 800 recordings). Its new permanent museography, inaugurated in 2023, has earned it national recognition, with the support of the Canadian federal government. The museum also preserves archives, artifacts, and works of art related to the Holocaust and to survivors who settled in Quebec.

The only Holocaust museum in Slovakia, opened in 2016 on the very site of the former Sereď labor and concentration camp, from which convoys departed for Auschwitz-Birkenau. Managed by the Slovak National Museum, it displays a period cattle car and survivor testimonies, among other exhibits. The museum documents the persecution of Jews in Slovakia between 1941 and 1945.

Housed in the former synagogue Ohel Moishe (1927) in the Hongkou district, this museum commemorates Shanghai's reception of more than 20,000 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Europe between 1933 and 1941, at a time when the city was one of the few ports in the world requiring no entry visa. The exhibitions document daily life in the Shanghai ghetto, relations between refugees and the local population, and individual trajectories after 1945. The building was restored and enlarged in 2007 with the support of the Israeli and Chinese governments.

Distinct from the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens, this Thessaloniki museum is devoted exclusively to the history of the Sephardic community of Salonika, which for centuries was the principal Jewish city of the Ottoman Empire and of the Sephardic world. It documents the arrival of the exiles from Spain in 1492, economic and cultural life, the great fire of 1917, and the near-total deportation of the community in 1943. Its photographic archives and textile collections constitute primary sources of the first importance.

Museum documenting the persecution of Jews and the Resistance in south-western France. It preserves archives, objects and testimonies of the Occupation.

A tsarist fortress in Kaunas repurposed by the Nazis as a site of mass execution: between 45,000 and 50,000 Jews were murdered there between 1941 and 1944, among them deportees from France, Austria, and Germany. The state museum traces the Kaunas massacre, the liquidation of the ghetto, and the spectacular escape of 64 prisoners in December 1943. The site preserves the execution pits and an imposing commemorative monument erected in 1984.

Managed by the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ), this heritage centre in Addis Ababa preserves objects, photographs, and oral traditions connected to the Beta Israel (Falashas), the Jewish community of Ethiopia, the majority of whom emigrated to Israel during Operation Moses (1984) and Operation Solomon (1991). The collections include liturgical implements specific to the Beta Israel tradition, ceremonial textiles, and testimonies on religious practices prior to the mass aliyah.

Hungarian Jewish museum adjoining the Dohány Street Synagogue.

Museum of the Jewish culture of Slovakia, attached to the Slovak National Museum. It documents the country's Jewish history and the burial place of the Hatam Sofer.

The synagogue Kahal Kadosh Shalom (sixteenth century), the oldest synagogue still in active use in the Balkans, houses a museum devoted to the history of the Judeo-Spanish community of Rhodes, established after the expulsion from Spain in 1492. This museum is distinct from the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens. The collections present Rhodian Sephardic costumes, ornate ketubot, Ottoman liturgical objects, and documents on the deportation of nearly the entire community to Auschwitz in July 1944.

Memorial of the extermination camp where nearly 900,000 Jews were murdered. The site features a field of symbolic steles.

Founded in 1982 in St Kilda, the historic district of the Melbourne Jewish community, this museum traces the history of Jews in Australia from the first Jewish convicts who arrived with the fleet of 1788. Its permanent collections cover the cycles of Jewish life, successive migrations, and the contribution of Australian Jews to the arts, sciences, and public life. The museum has an important section devoted to survivors of the Shoah who settled in Australia after 1945, distinct from the Melbourne Holocaust Museum already listed.

Museum of the Jewish community of Serbia tracing its history and the Shoah in the Balkans. It holds ritual objects and community archives.

First Jewish museum in Portugal, in the last crypto-Jewish stronghold.

Musée juif de Berlin — Académie W. Michael Blumenthal

Berlin, Allemagne

Archive centre, library and academic programme attached to the Jewish Museum Berlin, housed in the former flower market. It supports research on German-speaking Jewry.

Housed in the Sephardic synagogue of Sarajevo (1581, rebuilt in the seventeenth century), this museum traces the Jewish presence in Bosnia since the welcome extended to the exiles from Spain by the Ottoman Empire. It preserves notably the Haggada of Sarajevo (fourteenth century, Barcelona), one of the most precious illuminated Hebrew manuscripts in the world, which was sheltered there during the Second World War and the siege of Sarajevo (1992–1995). The collections include Sephardic costumes, Ottoman documents, and testimonies on communal life in the twentieth century.

Museum of the history of Romania's Jews housed in the Holy Union Synagogue. It documents a once-large community struck by the Shoah and emigration.

This community museum in Plovdiv (ancient Philippopolis) documents the history of the Jewish community of Bulgaria's second city, which has been active since at least the first century of the Common Era. It is distinct from the Sofia museum and highlights the specific character of the Sephardic community of Plovdiv: its traditional trades, its educational institutions, and its role in the Bulgarian national revival of the nineteenth century. Liturgical objects, photographs, and oral testimonies form the heart of the collection.

Managed by the Organisation of Jews in Bulgaria 'Shalom', this permanent museum is housed in the great synagogue of Sofia, the largest Sephardic synagogue in South-Eastern Europe, built in 1909. It traces the history of Bulgarian Jews from Antiquity, with particular attention to the near-total rescue of the community (approximately 50,000 persons) from Nazi deportation through the resistance of civil society and the Orthodox clergy. The collections include Torah scrolls, ritual textiles, and archival documents.

Museum housed in a sixteenth-century Baroque synagogue with exceptional decoration. It holds ritual objects and a collection of Hanukkah lamps.

Inaugurated in 2021 on the archaeological site of the medieval Jewish quarter of Cologne, this museum presents the history of the Cologne Jewish community from Antiquity to the present day. It is built above the remains of the mikvé and the foundations of the old Rhenish synagogue, discovered during urban construction work. Its permanent collections cover religious life, medieval persecutions (the pogrom of 1349), and the local Shoah. The institution forms part of the network of Cologne municipal museums.

Maison Esterka, in the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz in Kraków, is one of the oldest dwellings with a Jewish tradition in the city, dated to the fifteenth–sixteenth century and associated with the legend of Estera, favourite of King Casimir the Great. It houses a permanent collection on Jewish daily life in Kraków before the Shoah, complementary to the collections of the Old Synagogue already listed. The emphasis is on craft objects, costumes, and photographic archives from the early twentieth century.

Housed in the former synagogue Mikve Israel-Emanuel (1732), the oldest synagogue in continuous use in the Americas, this museum traces the history of the Sephardic community that settled in Curaçao from the mid-seventeenth century onwards, fleeing the Inquisition in Brazil. Its collections include liturgical objects, archival documents, and testimonies on the economic and cultural role of Jews in the Dutch Caribbean. The building itself, with its white sand floor, is listed as a national monument.

Housed in the medieval Jewish quarter of Girona ('El Call'), among the best preserved in Spain, this museum presents the history of the Girona Jewish community from the ninth to the fifteenth century. Girona was an important centre of medieval Kabbalah, notably through Rabbi Nachmanides (Ramban). The collections include funerary Hebrew inscriptions, lamps, domestic objects, and documents relating to the legal life of the community before the expulsion of 1492.

2,300 years of Jewish life in Greece through 11,000 objects and archives.

Oldest synagogue in Greece still in use, housing the Jewish Museum of Rhodes. It traces the history of the island's Sephardic community.

The department of Jewish History of the Hamburg History Museum traces the Jewish presence in the Hanseatic city from the sixteenth century, when Sephardic Portuguese merchants settled there alongside Ashkenazi communities from Altona. Hamburg was a major centre of Jewish Atlantic commerce and a hub of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) in the eighteenth century. The collections include portraits, trade objects, testimonies on emigration to the Americas, and documents on the destruction of the community under Nazism. This museum is distinct from the Levy Library already listed.

The synagogue of Kairouan preserves a small collection of ritual objects attesting to the Jewish presence in this holy city of Islam, dating back to the earliest Jewish communities of Ifriqiya in the Middle Ages. The collection, though modest, includes Hebrew manuscripts, Hanukkah lamps, and local ceramic pieces with Hebrew decoration. It bears witness to the particular coexistence of communities in pre-colonial Tunisia. This site remains distinct from the Ghriba of Djerba already catalogued.

The Manchester Jewish Museum, housed in the former Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, traces the history of the Jewish communities of northern England.

The only Jewish museum in the Arab world, dedicated to the heritage of Morocco's Jews. It preserves ritual objects, costumes and synagogue reconstructions.

Municipal museum devoted to the history and culture of Jewish Munich, on Sankt-Jakobs-Platz. It adjoins the great Ohel Jakob Synagogue.

Musée juif de Prague

Prague, Tchéquie

One of the oldest Jewish museums; a vast collection of Judaica in the Josefov quarter.

Musée juif de Prague — Synagogue espagnole

Prague, République tchèque

Moorish-style synagogue belonging to the Jewish Museum in Prague, housing an exhibition on the Jewish history of Bohemia and Moravia in the 19th and 20th centuries.

This department of the Rendsburg municipal museum (Schleswig-Holstein) presents the history of the Jewish community of the city, one of the most important in northern Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is housed in the former synagogue of 1844, saved from destruction in 1938. The collections illustrate the daily life, religious practices, and civic integration of the Jews of Holstein, as well as their fate under Nazism.

Inaugurated in 2016, the Museu Judaico de São Paulo is devoted to the history and culture of the Jewish communities of Brazil, a country that is home to the largest Jewish population in Latin America outside Argentina. The museum presents successive waves of migration — Sephardic, Ashkenazi from Eastern Europe, survivors of the Shoah — and their contribution to Brazilian economic, cultural, and political life. Its temporary exhibitions regularly address questions of Memory, diversity, and tolerance in contemporary Brazilian society.

Museum tracing the rich history of the Sephardic community of Salonika, nicknamed the 'Jerusalem of the Balkans'. It documents a community annihilated by the Shoah.

The oldest synagogue in Africa, a major pilgrimage site on the island of Djerba. It preserves ancient Torah scrolls and continues a thousand-year-old tradition.

Branch of the Jewish Museum of Vienna presenting the archaeological remains of the medieval synagogue destroyed in 1421. It adjoins Rachel Whiteread's Shoah memorial.

Museum located at the heart of the Venice Ghetto, the first Jewish ghetto in the world. It preserves textiles, silverware, and manuscripts and gives access to the historic synagogues.

The Raschi-Haus houses the Worms municipal museum devoted to Jewish history, in a city whose community dates back at least to the tenth century and which formed, together with Mainz and Speyer, the learned triad known as 'SchUM'. The museum exhibits liturgical objects, manuscripts, lapidary inscriptions, and testimonies on Rhenish communal life. It is adjacent to the medieval Jewish cemetery 'Heiliger Sand', one of the oldest in Europe still preserved. The ensemble has formed a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2021.

Established in the historic mellah of Fès, this museum documents the thousand-year-old presence of Jews in one of the oldest imperial cities of Morocco. It is distinct from the Jewish Museum of Casablanca and focuses on the role of the Fassi communities in trans-Saharan trade, diplomacy, and intellectual life. The collections include Berber-Jewish jewellery, Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts, ornate ketubot, and archival photographs of the mellah.

This museum is devoted to the history of the Jewish community of Suriname, one of the oldest in the Americas, established in the seventeenth century by Sephardic refugees from Brazil and Europe. The site includes the ruins of the synagogue of Jodensavanne (1685) in the Surinamese jungle and a permanent collection in Paramaribo. Liturgical objects, notarial records, and testimonies on the legal autonomy granted to the Jews by the Dutch form the heart of the collections.

Schneerson Library, a collection of Hasidic books and manuscripts gathered by the Lubavitcher Rebbes, now held in Russia. It is the subject of an international dispute.

Founded in 1949 by survivors and fighters from the Polish ghettos, the museum of Lohamei HaGetaot ('Ghetto Fighters') in Acre is one of the first Holocaust museums in the world. Unlike Yad Vashem, it deliberately emphasises the armed and cultural resistance of Jews during the Shoah. Its collections include archives from the Warsaw ghetto uprising, works created in the camps, testimonies from resistance fighters, and a department devoted to the destroyed Jewish culture of Eastern Europe. It also manages the Yad Layeled museum, dedicated to child victims of the Shoah.

Gothic synagogue of the Jewish Museum in Prague, turned into a memorial bearing the names of 80,000 murdered Czech Jews. It also displays the children's drawings from Theresienstadt.

Archaeological museum from the British Mandate era, now attached to the Israel Museum. It holds major finds, including part of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Museum of Bulgarian Jewish history housed in the great synagogue of Sofia. It documents the rescue of the Jews of Bulgaria during the Shoah.

Museum devoted to the ceremonial art of the Jewish communities of Italy. It houses the synagogue of Conegliano Veneto rebuilt in Jerusalem.

Argentine museum devoted to Holocaust remembrance, run by survivors and their descendants. It also documents Jewish life in Argentina.

Beneath the Great Synagogue; Jewish presence in Rome from antiquity and the ghetto.

Jewish museum founded in 1967 by Dr. Salvador Kibrick, the first Jewish museum in Latin America. Located near the Templo Libertad (Argentina's first synagogue), it preserves Torah scrolls, ritual objects, ancient books and works tracing Jewish history and tradition. Distinct from the Museo del Holocausto de Buenos Aires.

Museum of Hispano-Jewish art in the Synagogue del Tránsito (14th c.); Sephardic epigraphy.

Living memorial to the Shoah at Battery Park; Jewish life before, during and after.

Museum and nonprofit organization devoted to the Jewish history of Montreal, with an exhibition space on Boulevard Saint-Laurent. It offers exhibitions as well as guided walking and culinary tours of the city's historic Jewish neighborhoods, led by its researchers.

Museum of Tolerance

Los Angeles, États-Unis

Museum attached to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, devoted to the Shoah and to prejudice. It offers an educational journey on racism and intolerance.

Holocaust Memorial Museum installed since 27 January 2019 in the historic Union Terminal in Cincinnati, where many survivors arrived to rebuild their lives. It combines the Holocaust narrative with a "Humanity Gallery" dedicated to positive action.

The National Archives of India and the Paradesi Synagogue Archives in Cochin preserve unique documents relating to the Jewish community of Cochin, one of the oldest in Asia. This collection includes copper plates engraved with royal privileges granted to the Jews of Malabar as early as the tenth century, Yemenite Torah scrolls, and archives in Judeo-Malayalam. These items constitute an irreplaceable testimony to Indian Judaism and its relations with local powers. This collection is distinct from the holdings of the Paradesi Synagogue Museum in Mattancherry and is the subject of digitization projects.

National Library of Israel

Jérusalem, Israël

National Library of Israel, the world's largest repository of Judaica and Hebrew manuscripts.

National Library of Wales — collections hébraïques

Aberystwyth, Royaume-Uni

Welsh national library preserving Hebrew and Judaic manuscripts and printed works. It houses collections related to biblical scholarship.

National Yiddish theatre of the United States, founded in 1915 on the Lower East Side under the auspices of the Workmen's Circle. The country's oldest theatre company in continuous operation, it produces plays in Yiddish with English supertitles. Its Yiddish revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" (2018) marked the international renewal of Yiddish theatre.

Lithuanian yeshiva founded in 1933 by Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, disciple of the Alter of Slabodka, to transplant European Talmudic erudition to America. Led since 2001 by Rabbi Aharon Feldman, it is affiliated with Agoudath Israel and comprises mechina, beth midrash and kollel.

Holocaust Memorial dedicated in October 1995 in Boston, along the Freedom Trail. Composed of six glass towers symbolizing the principal extermination camps and the six million Jewish victims, it bears engraved matriculation numbers and testimonies of survivors. Founded by survivor Stephan Ross.

Advanced Torah study center for women (Jeanie Schottenstein Center), founded in 1990 by Rabbanit Chana Henkin. A Modern Orthodox and religious Zionist institution, pioneer of the Yoatzot Halacha program (advisors on Jewish law concerning family purity).

Orthodox yeshiva specializing in welcoming adult Jews unfamiliar with the tradition (baalei teshuva). It has several branches around the world.

Jewish museum founded in 1990 in Portland, the first Jewish museum in the Pacific Northwest, merged in 2014 with the Center for Holocaust Education. Located since 2017 in a new building, it combines Jewish heritage and Holocaust education for all of Oregon.

Founded in 1925 in Vienna at the Fourteenth Zionist Congress, this organization federates Sephardic and Oriental communities within the framework of the world Zionist movement. It played a crucial role in organizing the aliyah of Sephardic Jews from the Mediterranean basin, the Balkans, and North Africa to Mandatory Palestine and later the State of Israel. Based in Tel Aviv, it today coordinates Sephardic cultural and educational activities within the World Zionist Organization. Its archives document the history of Sephardic delegations at Zionist Congresses and the dynamics between Ashkenazim and Sephardim in the construction of the Jewish national project.

Secular federation of Orthodox congregations in North America, founded in 1898 in New York by Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes and representatives of about fifty communities. It operates synagogues, youth programs, and advocacy, and runs a kosher certification service whose OU symbol appears on many products.

224 Hebrew manuscripts (13th–18th c.), 41 illuminated, and incunabula.

Center founded in 1972 by David Patterson to restore Jewish studies in Europe after the Holocaust, long located at Yarnton Manor near Oxford. Integrated into Oxford University, it combines research and teaching in Hebrew and Jewish studies and publishes the Journal of Jewish Studies. It is one of the principal European centers of the discipline.

European academic institute founded in 2000 in Stockholm, dedicated to the revitalization of Jewish life and culture in Europe through training and the study of texts. It trains cultural and academic actors through its annual program of Jewish studies and associated projects.

The university library of Heidelberg, founded in 1386, holds one of the oldest collections of medieval Hebrew manuscripts in Germany, distinct from the De Rossi collection in Parma. It contains in particular biblical and talmudic codices originating from the Palatine electoral library. These manuscripts are digitised and accessible via the Manuscripta Mediaevalia portal. Their Rhenish provenance makes them an irreplaceable witness to medieval Ashkenazi Judaism.

Open and pluralistic institute of Jewish studies, coeducational and non-denominational. It offers the study of traditional texts to an international audience.

Attached to the University of Southampton, the Parkes Institute was established as an institute in October 2000 around the library bequeathed by Reverend James Parkes (given in 1964). It is the oldest and largest world center dedicated to the study of relations between Jews and non-Jews, from Antiquity to today.

Penn Libraries — Cairo Genizah

Philadelphie, États-Unis

Over 600 medieval fragments from the Cairo Geniza.

POLIN — Musée de l'histoire des Juifs polonais

Varsovie, Pologne

On the site of the former ghetto, a thousand years of the history of the Jews of Poland.

Philanthropic foundation created in the early 1980s by patron Felix Posen, based in Tel-Aviv, dedicated to "Jewish literacy" and the study of secular Jewish culture. It finances university teaching and supports the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, a ten-volume anthology published by Yale University Press covering 3,000 years of Jewish creativity.

Princeton University — Geniza Lab

Princeton, États-Unis

Cairo Geniza laboratory (Marina Rustow); medieval Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic documents.

Jewish museum inaugurated in 2001 in Istanbul, first installed in the former Zülfaris synagogue then transferred to Karaköy. Created by the 500th Anniversary Foundation (commemorating the Ottoman Empire's welcome of Sephardic Jews in 1492), it traces five centuries of history and the contribution of Turkish Jews. The only Jewish museum in the country.

Central organization of the Reconstructionist movement, heir to the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation founded in 1955. In 2012, the federation merges with the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College; the entity takes the name Reconstructing Judaism in 2018. Based in Wyncote (Pennsylvania), it serves more than 100 congregations in several countries.

Association of Spanish municipalities founded in 1995 (founding members: Cáceres, Córdoba, Girona, Hervás, Ribadavia, Segovia, Toledo and Tudela). It defends the urbanistic, architectural, historical and cultural heritage inherited from Jewish communities expelled in 1492. Its headquarters has been in Córdoba since 2016.

Association of public character but private law status founded on March 17, 2011, grouping some thirty Portuguese municipalities from Belmonte to Tomar. It defends Jewish architectural, historical and cultural heritage and combines heritage enhancement with tourism promotion, in protocol partnership with Spain's Red de Juderías.

Holocaust education center established in 1988 in Providence, Rhode Island, emerging from community reflection begun in 1981. Its mission is to teach Holocaust history in order to promote human dignity and combat antisemitism. Principal institution of its kind in Rhode Island.

Brandeis University center, founded in 2007, dedicated to excellent teaching and research on Israeli history, politics, culture and society. It trains teachers in Israel Studies, supports doctoral students and widely disseminates knowledge of Israel beyond campus.

Inter-university centre founded in 2012 under the name Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, renamed Selma Stern Zentrum in 2017. A joint project of FU Berlin, HU Berlin, TU Berlin, Viadrina, University of Potsdam, the Abraham Geiger Kolleg and the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum, it coordinates research and doctoral training in Jewish studies.

Leading French rabbinical school, descended from the yeshiva of Metz.

Azriel Hildesheimer's Orthodox seminary, closed by the Nazis in 1938, reopened in 2009.

Opened in 1877, this Neolog seminary is the oldest rabbinical seminary still in operation in continental Europe. Founded under the impetus of Hungarian Reform Judaism, it welcomed students from Eastern European countries throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scholars such as Wilhelm Bacher and Ludwig Blau taught there. It has been affiliated with ELTE University in Budapest since 1999.

A dependency of the educational network of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, this institution trained teachers and school principals destined for the AIU school network in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. It contributed to the modernization and Gallicization of Jewish communities in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, while maintaining instruction in Hebrew and Jewish traditions. The archives of this seminary, preserved in Paris and Jerusalem, document the training of hundreds of teachers who transformed the educational structures of Sephardic and Mizrahi communities. Its work is inseparable from the AIU's cultural policy and the diffusion of the Enlightenment in the Mediterranean countries.

The oldest modern rabbinical seminary, founded in Padua then moved to Rome. It trains the rabbis of Italian Judaism and preserves a scholarly collection.

Founded in Vienna in 1893, this modern neo-Orthodox institution trained the great majority of rabbis in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. It reconciled traditional talmudic studies with Jewish scholarship (Wissenschaft des Judentums). Adolph Schwarz was its first director; Adolf Büchler succeeded him. Forcibly closed in 1938 following the Anschluss.

Founded in 1962 in Buenos Aires under the auspices of the Conservative (Masorti) movement, this seminary is the principal institution of rabbinical training in Latin America. It trained the vast majority of Conservative rabbis serving in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and other Latin American countries. Rabbi Marshall Meyer was its founding figure and gave it a prophetic and socially engaged orientation, notably during the Argentine dictatorship.

Séminaire théologique juif de Breslau

Breslau (Wrocław), Pologne

First modern rabbinical seminary in Central Europe ("Positive-Historical" Judaism).

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, seminary of Reconstructionist Judaism founded in the line of Mordecai Kaplan. It trains rabbis and cantors.

Center founded in 1980 by Dr. Jose A. Nessim, a Los Angeles physician, around a historic campus in Jerusalem's Old City. It promotes classical Sephardic Judaism and has trained tens of thousands of young adults, emphasizing Sephardic history, culture, and philosophy, with branches around the world.

Oldest and largest Sephardic charity society in the United States, founded in 1915–1916 under the name Ermandad Salonikiota de Amerika by Jewish immigrants from Salonika. It supports the social, educational, and religious welfare of Ladino-speaking Sephardic families from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, and works to preserve Judeo-Spanish language and culture.

The North American branch, founded in 2010, of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, this center trains Jewish leaders, rabbis, and intellectuals according to a pluralist and critical approach to Jewish thought. Distinct from its Israeli parent institution (already in the database), it develops its own programs such as iEngage (on the relationship of Diaspora Jews to Israel) and seminars for communal leaders. David Hartman and Donniel Hartman are its founding figures.

Housed in the former Ohel Moshe Synagogue in Shanghai (Hongkou district), this museum, founded in 2007, traces the history of the approximately 20,000 Jewish refugees who found refuge in Shanghai between 1933 and 1945 while fleeing Nazism. Its 'Wall of Names' bears the names of 18,578 refugees identified by researchers. It is the only museum institution in mainland China dedicated to the Memory of the Holocaust and to the reception of Jewish refugees.

The principal Croatian memorial dedicated to the victims of the Ustasha concentration and extermination camp (1941–1945), one of the deadliest in Europe outside direct Nazi rule, where approximately 80,000 to 100,000 Serbs, Jews, and Roma perished. The permanent museum and educational center, reopened in 2006 following a complete redesign, document the regime of the NDH (Independent State of Croatia) and its crimes. The memorial is managed by a Croatian public institution.

The only major French internment and deportation camp still intact and accessible.

Cultural center celebrating Jewish heritage and American democratic ideals.

A learned society founded in Paris in 1982, bringing together researchers and enthusiasts of the history of the Jews of Tunisia. It publishes the journal 'Les Cahiers de Tunisie' and organizes colloquia on the millennial history of Tunisian Jewish communities, from Roman Antiquity to the contemporary Diaspora. The society has assembled oral archives gathering the testimonies of Tunisian Jews settled in France, Israel, and Canada. It works in collaboration with the Bardo National Museum and French and Israeli university institutions.

A specialized section of the Cercle de Généalogie Juive (CGJ), founded in Paris in 1984, devoted to genealogical research on Jewish families from the Maghreb and the Mediterranean basin. It maintains databases of civil registry records from the Jewish communities of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia held at the Archives nationales d'Outre-Mer in Aix-en-Provence. The CGJ publishes the journal "La Lettre Séfarade" and has digitized thousands of Kethubbot (marriage contracts) and cemetery records from Moroccan mellahs. It collaborates with the Centre de Documentation et de Recherche sur la Culture Juive du Maroc and French and Israeli academic institutions.

Museum housed in the first synagogue in South Africa, in Cape Town. It traces the history of the South African Jewish community, largely of Lithuanian origin.

Institution of higher Jewish learning and cultural center in Chicago. It holds an important collection of art and Judaica and offers university programs.

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin — manuscrits hébraïques

Berlin, Allemagne

~500 Hebrew manuscripts catalogued by Moritz Steinschneider.

~25,000 volumes from the library of historian Salo W. Baron.

Israel's national natural history museum and national center for the study of biodiversity, affiliated with Tel-Aviv University and opened in 2018 through the patronage of Michael and Judy Steinhardt. It houses some 5.5 million specimens accumulated by researchers, combining research, conservation, and education functions.

Founded in 1991 at Tel Aviv University, the Stephen Roth Institute is a documentation and research center on contemporary antisemitism and racism since the end of the Second World War. It maintains a global database of antisemitic incidents, produces annual country reports, and constitutes an archival resource on far-right movements, Shoah denial, and contemporary conspiracy theories. In 2011, it co-founded the International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism (ICRAR), bringing together researchers from the Americas, Europe, and Israel. It is affiliated with the Wiener Library in Tel Aviv.

The world's largest collection of Jewish documentary films, founded in the late 1960s within the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Renamed in 1988 after filmmaker Steven Spielberg, it holds over 20,000 titles, including footage from Mandate Palestine, diaspora communities and the Holocaust.

Museum devoted to Australian Jewish history and Holocaust remembrance. It draws on the testimonies of survivors who settled in Australia.

Great synagogue in the Moorish style housing a museum of Florentine Jewish ceremonial art. It presents textiles, silverware, and liturgical objects.

Celebrated house of study of the Mussar movement founded around 1865 by Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv (Broida), the "Alter of Kelm," a disciple of Yisrael Salanter. Small but immensely influential, it formed the spiritual elite of Lithuanian Judaism before being destroyed during the Holocaust.

New York University center, established in 2003 with support from the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation, affiliated with the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. It is dedicated to the study of modern Israel (history, politics, culture, society) and ranks among the leading Israel Studies centers in the United States.

Jewish studies center at Stanford University, established in 1986 under the impetus of philanthropist Tad Taube. It coordinates teaching and research in Jewish history, languages, literature and thought, and offers a rich public program. It has become one of the leading university Jewish Studies programs in the United States.

Major art museum in Israel, founded in 1932 in the former residence of Tel-Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, who donated it. On 14 May 1948, Israel's Declaration of Independence was signed there. The museum relocated in 1971 to Shaul Hamelech Boulevard; it houses a rich collection of modern and Israeli art.

American refounding of the famous Lithuanian yeshiva of Telšiai destroyed during the Shoah. It carries on the Telz method of Talmudic study.

Yeshiva of the Conservative movement, founded in 1995 within the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center. Egalitarian, pluralist and co-educational, it offers intensive study of traditional texts open to students from around the world.

Israel's principal opera company, founded in 1985 (initially "New Israeli Opera") by the Arts and Culture Council, from a partnership between the Cameri Theatre and the Israeli Chamber Orchestra. Since 1994, it has performed at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center and serves as the national stage for lyric art.

Oldest Jewish museum in the United States; ~30,000 works and ceremonial objects.

The London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) holds the archives of London's Sephardic community, notably those of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Bevis Marks (LMA/4521), the oldest Sephardic synagogue in England, founded in 1701. These collections — partially digitized by the National Library of Israel — contain birth, marriage, and death registers, Libros de Contas, membership and charity beneficiary lists, covering settlements in the British colonies as well. Many London Ashkenazic Jewish communities have also deposited their archives at the LMA. Access to the Sephardic collections requires written authorization from the congregation.

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Berkeley, États-Unis

+45,000 Jewish works, objects, and manuscripts, at the University of California.

International association of rabbis of Conservative Judaism, founded in Philadelphia in 1901 as an association of alumni of the Jewish Theological Seminary, then renamed Rabbinical Assembly in 1918. It defines the ideology, halakha, and practices of the Conservative movement and publishes its responsa.

Principal union of "centrist" Orthodox synagogues in the United Kingdom, created by an Act of Parliament on 14 July 1870, merging five major London congregations. Europe's largest synagogal body, it has more than 36,000 members and recognizes the spiritual authority of the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom.

Institute associated with Cambridge University, founded in 1998 by Edward Kessler and Martin Forward, initially as the Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Merged and renamed Woolf Institute in 2010 in honor of Lord Harry Woolf, it is dedicated to the study of relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims, through research and teaching.

American Jewish organization founded in New York on September 4, 1900 by Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Eastern Europe (formerly « Workmen's Circle » / Arbeter Ring). Combining mutual aid and cultural action, it supported Yiddish schools, publishing, theater (Folksbiene) and concerts, remaining one of the great pillars of secular Yiddish culture in America.

Holocaust memorial museum founded in 1984 by survivors, the first independent Holocaust museum in the United States, originally the "Holocaust Memorial Center." Housed since 2004 in Farmington Hills (Detroit area) and renamed "Zekelman" in 2022, it is Michigan's largest Holocaust museum.

Independent philanthropic foundation established in New York in 1992 by Zalman Bernstein, dedicated to promoting Jewish thought and ideas. It funds scholarships, educational and leadership programs, publications, and the associated intellectual network, notably supporting the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization at NYU.

Network of yeshivot in Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism, founded in 1897 in Lubavitch by rav Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth Rebbe. Birthplace of training for the "temimim," it spread worldwide (Shanghai, then New York) and remains central to the Chabad movement.

Documentation center located on the former site of the Gestapo and the SS. It documents the Nazi apparatus of terror and the persecution of the Jews.

Private Jewish university founded in New York in 1970–1971 by Rabbi Bernard Lander, named in honor of Isaac and Judah Touro. Devoted to transmitting and perpetuating the Jewish heritage, it has become a vast university system (renamed Touro University in 2022) covering arts, sciences and medicine.

Museum of the history of Jerusalem housed in the medieval citadel near the Jaffa Gate. It traces the city's millennia of history.

University library holding a collection of Hebrew manuscripts and polyglot bibles. It stems from a long tradition of Oriental studies.

Congregational arm of Reform Judaism in North America, founded on July 8, 1873 in Cincinnati by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise under the name Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Renamed Union for Reform Judaism in 2003, it federates over 800 congregations and constitutes the largest Jewish denomination in the United States.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Washington, États-Unis

American national Holocaust museum; archives and research.

Principal congregational organization of Conservative Judaism in North America, founded in 1913 at the Jewish Theological Seminary by Rabbi Solomon Schechter under the name United Synagogue of America. Renamed United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism in 1991, it federates several hundred communities.

Largest Judaica-Hebraica collection in Germany, shaped by Aron Freimann.

The university library of Leipzig holds a collection of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts enriched by Karl Vollers and other nineteenth-century orientalists. It contains approximately 250 Hebrew manuscripts including medieval commentaries, treatises of Jewish philosophy, and Ashkenazi prayer fragments. This collection is catalogued in the Manuscripta Mediaevalia database and partially digitised. Leipzig having been a centre of Hebrew publishing (Steinschneider worked there), the library also holds important early printed books.

Université Bar-Ilan

Ramat Gan, Israël

Israeli university combining secular and Jewish religious studies. It produced the Bar-Ilan Responsa Project, a vast digitized database of rabbinic literature.

Université de Tel-Aviv

Tel-Aviv, Israël

Israel's largest university, home notably to the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center and institutes of Jewish history.

Université hébraïque de Jérusalem

Jérusalem, Israël

Israel's first university, inaugurated on Mount Scopus. It houses major centers for Jewish studies and the Albert Einstein Archives collection.

University of Michigan — Judaic Studies

Ann Arbor, États-Unis

Collection in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino; Hebrew manuscripts spanning a millennium.

USC Shoah Foundation

Los Angeles, États-Unis

Institute founded by Steven Spielberg to gather video testimonies of Shoah survivors. Its Visual History Archive contains more than 50,000 of them.

Finest private collection of Hebrew books and manuscripts (Jack Lunzer), acquired by the NLI in 2017.

The principal Holocaust memorial and educational center in British Columbia and western Canada, founded in 1994 by survivors and their descendants. Its collections include more than 11,000 artifacts, archives, and testimonies; it reaches more than 25,000 students each year through its school programs. The VHEC also conducts research on survivor communities that settled in western Canada after the war.

Oldest surviving synagogue in Poland, in the Kazimierz district, housing a museum of Jewish culture attached to the Historical Museum of Kraków. It holds ritual objects.

Holocaust Memorial Museum opened in 1997 in Richmond, founded notably by survivor Jay Ipson. It offers immersive exhibitions on the Holocaust and tolerance education, and is the principal institution dedicated to Holocaust Memory in Virginia.

Central yeshiva of the Vizhnitz Hasidic movement, established in the 1950s in Kiryat Vizhnitz (Bnei Brak) by Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager (Imrei Chaim), after the exile of the dynasty originating in Vyzhnytsia (Bukovina). Major Israeli Hasidic center.

National Jewish Museum founded in 1976 in Philadelphia, on Independence Mall. Dedicated to the history and experience of American Jews since 1654, it was renamed « Weitzman » in 2021 after its reorganization, in honor of donor Stuart Weitzman. It is the principal museum dedicated to American Judaism.

Oldest institution of research and documentation on the Shoah.

Jewish heritage and Holocaust museum opened in 1996 in Atlanta, cultural center dedicated to Jewish history, culture and the arts with a focus on Georgia and the Holocaust. It is the largest Jewish museum of the American Southeast.

Founded in London in 1920 by Rebecca Sieff, Vera Weizmann and others to provide community services in Mandate Palestine, it later relocated its headquarters to Tel Aviv. The world's largest Zionist women's organization, it is dedicated to social welfare, women's status and children's education in Israel.

Museum of Jewish art housed in Hechal Shlomo, preserving ritual objects and synagogue reconstructions. It documents the material culture of the diasporas.

Founded in Geneva in August 1936, the World Jewish Congress is the international federation of Jewish communities and organizations. Its headquarters was transferred to New York in 1940. It defines itself as "the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people" and maintains offices in Brussels, Jerusalem, Paris, Buenos Aires, and Geneva.

An international organization founded in 1976, uniting Jews of Iraqi origin and their descendants living in Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. It advocates for the preservation of the cultural heritage of the Babylonian Jewish community and the documentation of the history of Jewish presence in Mesopotamia over 2,500 years. The WOJI manages archives, organizes conferences, and publishes studies on the Judeo-Arabic language, Iraqi maqam music, and Judeo-Iraqi poets. It coordinates the claim for restitution of the Iraqi Jewish Archive.

Founded in Saint Petersburg in 1880, ORT (Russian acronym for "Society for Manual and Agricultural Labor") provides vocational and technical training. A global Jewish educational network, World ORT has its administrative headquarters in London and works toward economic self-sufficiency of communities through education and technology.

Federation founded in 1925 at the international congress of Sephardic Jews held in Vienna, with headquarters in Jerusalem and first president Moshe Pichotto. It aims to represent Sephardic and Oriental communities worldwide, awarding scholarships and assistance and cooperating with the Hebrew University for the Misgav Yerushalayim institute for research on Sephardic and Oriental heritage.

Founded at the first Zionist Congress in Bâle in 1897 by Theodor Herzl under the name Zionist Organization (renamed World Zionist Organization in 1960). The umbrella organization of the Zionist movement, it aimed at the creation of a Jewish national home in Eretz Israël and today promotes Zionism and Jewish education throughout the world.

Yad Vashem

Jérusalem, Israël

World center for Holocaust remembrance; archives, museum, and memorial.

Emblematic Lithuanian yeshiva, saved via Shanghai; today the largest in the world.

Yeshiva founded in 1896 by Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horowitz, the "Alter of Novardok," a disciple of Yisrael Salanter. It gave rise to an entire school of the Mussar movement, marked by radical ethical introspection, and spawned numerous branches before being annihilated by the Holocaust.

Major Lithuanian yeshiva (Rav Kahaneman), refounded after the Shoah.

Founded around 1803 in Pressburg by Rabbi Moshe Sofer, the "Chatam Sofer," it was the most influential yeshiva of Central Europe and the bastion of Hungarian Orthodoxy against the Reform movement. Refounded in Jerusalem after the Holocaust by Rabbi Akiva Sofer.

Yeshiva founded in 1869 in Radin by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, the "Chofetz Chaim," a major halakhic and moral authority of Lithuanian Judaism. Led by Rabbi Naftali Trop, it was a center of reference for Talmudic study before its destruction during the Holocaust.

High seat of Musar (Nathan Tzvi Finkel); destroyed during the Shoah.

"Mother of yeshivot," the first modern yeshiva (Rabbi Hayim of Volozhin).

Orthodox yeshiva founded by Rabbi Eliyahu Botschko on the shores of Lake Geneva. It trained rabbis for the communities of Western Europe.

Network of Satmar Hasidic studies, reconstituted in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) after the Holocaust by Grand Rabbi Joel (Yoel) Teitelbaum, whose dynasty was born in Satu Mare (Hungary/Romania) in 1905. A major center of anti-Zionist Hasidism, today led by rav Zalman Teitelbaum.

Lithuanian yeshiva in Brooklyn, founded in 1904 and renamed in 1914 in honour of Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Marked by the leadership of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner (1936-1980), a major thinker in mussar, and then Rabbi Aharon Schechter. It comprises mesivta, beth midrash, and kollel.

Pioneering New York Orthodox yeshiva for Talmudic education in the United States. It has trained many leaders of American Orthodox Judaism.

Yeshiva University

New York, États-Unis

Orthodox Jewish university descended from Yeshiva Etz Chaim and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. A major center of American Modern Orthodoxy.

Lithuanian yeshiva founded in 1968 in Jerusalem (Bayit VeGan neighborhood) by rav Mordechai Elefant. Its name is an acronym for the Israel Torah Research Institute. It notably hosts students from abroad.

Religious Zionist yeshiva located in the old city of Jerusalem. It belongs to the tradition of study tied to the Temple Mount.

Religious Zionist yeshiva founded in 1977 in the settlement of Beit El by Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed, in the tradition of Mercaz HaRav. It is notably at the origin of the Arutz Sheva station (Israel National News).

Yeshivat hesder founded in 1977 in Maale Adumim by rabbis Haim Sabato and Yitzchak Sheilat, long directed by Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch (1983-2020). A religious-Zionist institution renowned for its high level of study and the thought of Maimonides.

Yeshiva founded by Rabbi Yitzchak Zeev Soloveitchik, heir to the Brest-Litovsk dynasty. It perpetuates the analytical method known as Brisk.

Great yeshiva founded by Rabbi Meir Shapiro, promoter of the Daf Yomi. Its monumental building survived the Shoah and today houses a restored synagogue.

Founded in Lunéville in 1788 and later transferred to Metz, this yeshiva was one of the first institutions of high-level Talmudic study in France under the Ancien Régime and during the Revolutionary period. It trained rabbinic decisors active in the Ashkenazic communities of Alsace-Lorraine and helped maintain the tradition of intensive study (lomdus) in western France during a period of profound communal upheaval.

Yeshivat hesder founded in 1967 in the Old City of Jerusalem shortly after the Six-Day War, at the initiative of Rabbi Aryeh Bina. Long directed by Rabbi Yeshayahu Hadari, it is one of the great religious-Zionist yeshivot, near the Western Wall.

Founded in 1968 in Gush Etzion by rabbis Yehuda Amital and Aharon Lichtenstein, Har Etzion is the most influential hesder yeshiva in the religious-Zionist world. It combines intensive Talmudic study with military service in the Israeli army. Recognized as a center of excellence of the Modern Orthodoxy (Dati Leumi) movement, it has trained thousands of rabbinic decisors, teachers, and Israeli religious leaders. Its online Torah study site (VBM) is a global pedagogical resource.

Yeshiva descended from Slabodka, first established in Hebron and then moved to Jerusalem after the 1929 massacre. A great Lithuanian yeshiva of Israel.

Israel's first yeshivat hesder, founded in 1954 by Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht. It combines in-depth talmudic study with military service, and serves as a model of religious Zionism. Located near Yavné.

Lithuanian yeshiva in the Bayit Vegan neighbourhood, long led by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach. It is a major institution of the yeshiva world.

First North American institution to ordain women as members of Orthodox clergy, founded in 2009 by Rabbi Avi Weiss and Rabba Sara Hurwitz. Attached to the "Open Orthodox" movement, it trains spiritual leaders (maharat, rabba).

Yeshiva founded by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, an intellectual center of religious Zionism. It has trained the elite of the national-religious current.

Yeshivat hesder founded in 1977 (yeshiva high school from 1964) by Rabbi Chaim Druckman, a leading figure in religious Zionism and Bnei Akiva. Located at Merkaz Shapira, it has trained generations of leaders of the national-religious movement.

The leading Sephardic yeshiva of Jerusalem, founded through a bequest from Yossef Shalom. It trained many Sephardic spiritual leaders, including Ovadia Yossef.

Yeshiva of the Gour (Ger) Hasidic movement, founded in 1925 in Jerusalem (near Mahané Yehouda) by the Hasidim of Rebbe Avraham Mordechai Alter. Named after the Sfas Emes, Yehouda Aryeh Leib Alter, it was a major center of Israel's largest Hasidic movement until its closure in 2016.

Yeshivat hesder founded in 1961 by Rabbi Meir Schlesinger, located on Kibbutz Sha'alvim. Originally linked to Poalei Agoudath Israel, it has become one of the great institutions of religious Zionism, combining Torah study with military service.

Yeshiva devoted to the study of Kabbalah, in the Lurianic tradition. It preserves an important library of esoteric texts.

Modern-Orthodox and religious-Zionist post-secondary yeshiva in Mevaseret Zion, founded around 1990 (Rabbi Azarya Berzon as first rosh yeshiva). Intended notably for English-speaking students of the "year in Israel", it is a partner of world Mizrachi.

Organization founded by Aaron Lansky that rescued more than a million Yiddish books. It digitizes and disseminates Yiddish literature and culture.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

New York, États-Unis

Archives of Eastern European Jewry: 24+ million documents; study of Yiddish.

Research and publishing center founded in 1973 by the Historical Society of Israel, with state support, in honor of Zalman Shazar, third president of Israel. Israel's principal publisher of Jewish history texts, it publishes scholarly works and reference books annually, organizes conferences and maintains a library of 25,000 volumes.

Rabbinical school of Masorti Judaism on the west coast, attached to the American Jewish University. It trains Conservative rabbis.