VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY JEAN & ALEXANDER HEARD LIBRARIES DIVINITY LIBRARY and MARY AND HARRY ZIMMERMAN JUDAICA COLLECTION – Previously known simply as the Judaica Collection, this collection of books and journals covers thousands of years of Jewish research, culture, and history. The books may be checked out; most are listed in the library catalog. Already one of the best collections of Judaica in the mid-south region, a donation by the Zimmerman family has allowed for significant expansion and enrichment of this important collection. The Zimmerman Judaica Collection, now numbering well over 20,000 titles, was begun in 1945 with the gift of the professional library of Professor Ismar Elbogen. A discerning acquisitions program has developed a collection impressive in breadth and depth. It includes (1) textually oriented study, i.e. Jewish works on the Hebrew Scriptures, Mishna, Talmud, Gaonic literature and liturgy; (2) tradition-oriented research, i.e. studies dealing with the religious and cultural dimensions of the Jewish tradition; and (3) historical study, i.e. works treating the history of the Jewish people from ancient times to the present. The acquisition of the collection of Professor Nahum N. Glatzer in 1991 was a direct result of the Zimmerman gift. Professor Glatzer’s collection, in addition to strengthening these three foci of the existing collection, broadens the scope of the collection, particularly with its focus on 19th and 20th century European Judaism. Included in the Glatzer purchase were manuscript and correspondence materials relating to Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Leopold Zunz. In 2016, we celebrated
70 years of Vanderbilt’s Judaica Collection. Members of the Nashville Jewish community are granted borrowing privileges to the Zimmerman Judaica Collection. Applications for these special borrowing programs are available at the Divinity Library service desk.

Jewish Theological Seminary Library- You can search the library’s catalog and link to the library’s digital collection and to many other free Jewish online resources on such subjects as: Bible, Talmud, Jewish Education, Jewish History, Jewish Lifecycle, Jewish Music and more.

Association of Jewish Libraries – The Association of Jewish Libraries promotes Jewish literacy through enhancement of libraries and library resources and through leadership for the profession and practitioners of Judaica librarianship. The Association fosters access to information, learning, teaching and research relating to Jews, Judaism, the Jewish experience and Israel.

Association of Jewish Libraries Podcast— The purpose of the AJL Podcast is to identify the Jewish values found in books written for Jewish children and teens in English or in translation. The Podcast Site is a selective guide; not every book of Jewish content is included.

• Read Together 
• Jewish Book Carnival 
• Love Your Neighbor

Center for Jewish History– Combines collections of five major institutions of Jewish scholarship, history and art: American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, the Yeshiva University Institute and the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research. There are links from the Library page to free online resources.

Harvard University Library Judaica Division’s Publications Online – Over 100 publications issued by the Division, including exhibit catalogs, lectures and articles related to the collection, proceedings of library conferences held in the Division and monographs.

National Library of Israel – The largest collection of publications within Israel is accessible to the public free of charge at the National Library with over 5 million volumes of books, manuscripts, periodicals, archives, maps, photographs and audio recordings.

Yiddish Book Center – The Yiddish Book Center works to rescue Yiddish and other modern Jewish books and open up their content to the world. Most of the collection has been digitized. Currently 11,000 Yiddish titles are available online, free of charge.