520 Institutions(26)

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.