520 Institutions(26)

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.