Resources
The Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative brings together information about institutions, Jewish historical societies, projects, groups, and individuals connected to the study of contemporary and historical Brooklyn Jewish communities. In this way, we hope to encourage links between individuals and organizations, as well as to facilitate exchanges.
Send us your ideas for links and we will consider including them in our Resource list.
Synagogues
Schools & Community Centers
Photos
Video Library
The Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative brings together information about institutions, Jewish historical societies, projects, groups, and individuals connected to the study of contemporary and historical Brooklyn Jewish communities. In this way, we hope to encourage links between individuals and organizations, as well as to facilitate exchanges. Send us your ideas for links and we will consider including them in our Resource list.
ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
- Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC)
- BAC video of
Brooklyn Yemeni
Jewish singer, Shoshana Tubi - An audio file of Shoshana Tubi’s traditional Yemeni Jewish music
- Brooklyn Jewish
Film Festival - Brooklyn Jewish Community Chorus
- Jewish Folk Crafts Guild of Brooklyn
- Jewish Children’s Museum of Brooklyn
- YidLive Brooklyn, NY “The Best in Online Jewish Music Radio”
- Jewish Music Cafe
- Brooklyn Museum’s Collection Items Tagged “Jewish”
- The Jewish Museum’s Collection Items Tagged “Brooklyn”
- Center for Jewish History Digital Collection Items Tagged “Brooklyn”
EDUCATION, DOCUMENTATION, CONNECTIONS
- Magen David Yeshivah
- Yeshivah of Flatbush
- YDE
- Jewish Educational Media
- Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection
- The Jewish Press
- “Jews in Brooklyn” Facebook Group
- Guide to the Records of Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum
- Chassidic Discovery Welcome Center
- Milstein Family
Jewish Communal
Archive Project - A Bialy Shop’s
Unlikely (Pakistani) Saviors - East Midwood Hebrew Day School
- Ahi Ezer Yeshiva School
- United Lubavitcher Yeshiva
- Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah
- Bnos Leah Prospect Park Yeshivah
- Yeshivat Or Hatorah
- Merkaz L’Chinuch HaTorah
- Yeshiva of Belle Harbor
- Shulamith of Brooklyn
- Yeshiva Torah Vodaath and Mesivta
- Yeshiva Ahavas Torah
- Yeshiva Derech HaTorah
- Lev Bais Yaakov
- Sinai Academy
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
- American Jewish Historical Society
- Jewish Historical Society of
Central New Jersey - Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
- Sephardic Heritage Project
- Australian Jewish Historical Society
- Jewish Genealogical Society of NY
A SAMPLING OF DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ONLINE
- Early Jewish History
in Brooklyn - Orthodox Jewish Enclaves in Brooklyn, New York: A GIS based Approach
- Sample of Brooklyn Jewish Business Men, Pre-1925
- Kane Street Synagogue’s The Synagogue Journal: 1856-2006
OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES