Cairo Genizah Fragments
The Penn Libraries’ collection of more than 600 medieval manuscript fragments from the Cairo Genizah
Medieval Manuscripts from the Dropsie Collection of Judaica and Semitica
An important part of the Penn Libraries’ medieval manuscript holdings derive from the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. This collection is particularly strong in Judeo-Arabic manuscripts.
Incunabula at the Library at the Katz CAJS
The Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies holds 32 (17 Hebrew and 15 Latin) incunabula.
Isaac Leeser Collections at the Penn Libraries
The Reverend Isaac Leeser (1806-1868) was a Jewish minister, educator, writer, translator, editor and publisher. He proposed, founded, or led many of early American Jewry’s first civic, religious, and charitable institutions.
Library at the Katz CAJS Offprints Collection
The Library at the Katz Center is home to a vast collection of more than 192 boxes of offprints of publications by scholars of Jewish Studies throughout the 20th century. Originally collected by Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, it is now part of the Penn Libraries’ Judaica collections.
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica
The Kaplan Collection documents commercial, social, religious, political, and cultural ties that connected Jews and the general public from the colonial era through the nineteenth century.
Harvey Sheldon Jewish American Music Video Research Library
This collection features artistic works written, directed, produced, or performed by Jews for general as well as for Jewish American audiences. It numbers approximately 2,000 video titles copied on to more than 350 DVD's.
Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive
The Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive currently contains over 4000 recordings, primarily in Yiddish and Hebrew.
Lenkin Family Collection of Photography
Over 5,000 early photographs of the Holy Land, dating from 1850-1937
Paola and Bertrand Lazard Holy Land Print collections
Hundreds of early printed books, postcards, maps, drawings, and watercolors related to the Holy Land.
The Moldovan Family Digital Holy Land Map Collection
The Moldovan family Digital Holy Land Map Collection consists of over 90 discrete maps of the Holy Land dating from 1480-1797 printed in 23 distinct locations across Europe.
Benjamin Zucker Ketubah Collection
The Benjamin Zucker Family Collection of Ketubot, or Jewish marriage contracts, consists of 249 historical documents of exceptional provenance, written in a variety of Jewish scribal hands, on parchment or paper, many beautifully decorated and some illuminated.
Zucker Holy Land Travel Manuscript
The Zucker Holy Land Travel Manuscript takes us on a tour through the Holy Land as it was known geographically, both in Biblical times and at the end of the 17th century.