Reading Room
Consult the facsimiles of manuscripts and ancient texts with open access — navigation, zoom, and occurrence search.
Zakhor's Reading Room provides access to digital reproductions of manuscripts and foundational texts of the Jewish heritage where the public domain permits. Each document comes with navigation tools (bookmarks, high-resolution zoom, occurrence search) and contextualizing notes written by our network of experts.
The facsimiles presented here come from the public domain or are made available by partner institutions. To propose a new text, contact the collective.
Available collections
Reading tools
High-resolution zoom
Examine every detail of the manuscripts with zoom up to 400%. Ideal for paleographic study.
Bookmarks & annotations
Mark your favorite passages and add personal notes for your research.
Occurrence search
Search for a word or expression within the text with support for Hebrew and Aramaic characters.
Plurality of sources
True to our comparative approach, the Reading Room systematically presents, where relevant, the divergent visions of a single event or concept. Jewish, Christian and Muslim texts are placed side by side to allow a cross-reading that is both rich and rewarding.
Propose a text or manuscript for the Reading Room.