Jewish Studies Primary Source Collections

"The website of piyut and prayer is a unique and innovative project whose purpose is to preserve and revive traditions, songs, prayers and Jewish music that are thousands of years old. The site, operating since 2005, provides the public with access to well-known and lesser-known productions alike, and spreads them daily both in Israel and across the world in order to present a multi-cultural and diverse picture. "

"This site accompanies and hosts the development of a born-digital critical edition of the Mishnah. When fully implemented, the project provide a dynamic edition of the Mishnah that takes advantage of its medium to provide multiple and customizable presentations of the text, as well as analytical tools that will allow the user to study variability between witnesses as well as other features."

"The FGP digital union catalogue would provide a complete accounting of all Genizah fragments from collections all over the world. Included in this database is a flexible search engine to enable scholars to collate scattered fragments and conduct research on them, as well as a wide variety of searches in all the languages of the Genizah. By the end of 2007, nearly 90,000 images from 17 Genizah collections were displayed on the website. (This number represented about 16% from the total number of Genizah images that were available at the end of the project.) The site preserves images of the Genizah fragments accompanied by extensive information such as identifications, catalogue records and bibliographic data, etc.."