Khazaria.com's Selected Jewish Links

Links to the Jewish World - Central and Eastern Europe

RUSSIA

Jewish Heritage Society, Moscow

Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization "Sefer"

Rossiyskiy Yevreyskiy Kongress (Russian Jewish Congress)

Jewish Community of St. Petersburg (Yevreyskiy Peterburg)

Yeshiva "Tomchei-Tmimim" Lubavitch, St. Petersburg

Dom Yevreyskoy Kul'tury, Saint Petersburg (St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies)

Tsentr Yevreyskoy Kul'tury Voronezh

Voronezhskaya Yevreyskaya Obshchina (Voronezh Jewish Community)

Lipetskaya Yevreyskaya Obshchina (Lipetsk Jewish Community)

Nizhny Novgorod Jewish Community

Yevreyskiy Religiozno-Kul'turnikh Tsentr (Jewish Religious-Cultural Center), Zhukovka

Jewish Community of Smolensk (Yevreyskaya obshchina g. Smolenska)

Jewish Community of Astrakhan (Yevreyskaya obshchina g. Astrakhan')

Jewish.ru Global'niy Evreyskiy On-Layn Tsentr

Istochnik: Jewish Educational Server

InterJewish Club

Global Jewish Service in Russia

Evreyskoye Vozrozhdenie v Tsentral'noy Rossii

Samara Jewish Library

Jewish University in Moscow

Yevreyskiy Universitet (Jewish University), Moscow

Korni / Roots: Magazine for Jewish Communities

Beit-Midrash

Jewish Family Center "Adain Lo", Saint Petersburg

Yaroslavl Jewish Cultural Center

Chabad-Lubavitch Centers in Russia

Virtual Xanuka

The Institute for Jewish Studies in the CIS

Jewish Community of Rostov, Russia

Jewish Russia

Gilel' Rossii

Yevrey.com

Die Geschichte der Ostjuden: Russland - von Chaim Frank

Jewish History of the Russian Federation

Zametki po evreyskoy istorii - Internet journal in Russian

Museum of the Jewish History in Russia, Moscow

The Jewish Virtual History Tour: Russia by Avi Hein

RUSSIAN CRIMEA

Chabad Lubavitch of Crimea, Simferopol

Before Crimea Was an Ethnic Russian Stronghold, It Was a Potential Jewish Homeland - essay by Jeffrey Veidlinger

Red Book: The Krymchaks

The Krymchaks: A Vanishing Group in the Soviet Union - book by Anatoly Khazanov

BELARUS

Jewish Community in Belarus

Belarus SIG (Jewish Genealogy in Belarus)

Jewish History of Belarus

The Bobruisk Youth Club

LITHUANIA

Jewish Community of Lithuania

Jews in Lithuania

The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, Vilnius

Vilnius Yiddish Institute

NPO Jewish Culture and Information Center, Vilnius

LitvakSIG - Lithuanian Jewish genealogy

Lithuania: Looking Back - photographs by Laurence Salzmann

Chabad Lubavitch of Lithuania, Vilnius

Jerulita's Jewish Vilnius Full Day Tour

Jerulita's Jewish Heritage Tour to Kaunas

LATVIA

Jewish Community of Latvia (Latvijas Ebreju draudžu un kopienu padome)

Chabad Lubavitch Community of Latvia, Riga

The Virtual Jewish History Tour: Latvia - essay by Joanna Sloame

Ethnicities in Region of Latvia: Jews

Jews in Latvia in the Early Years

Latvia SIG: History of Jews in Latvia and Courland

Jerulita's Riga Jewish City Tour

ESTONIA

Estonian Jewish Center, Tallinn - Chabad-Lubavitch

The Virtual Jewish History Tour: Estonia

POLAND

Warsaw's Jewish Heritage Sightseeing Tour

Tours in the Jewish Quarter of Krakow's Kazimierz District

Jerulita's Jewish Heritage Tour to Poland

Jews in Poland (Till 1648) - in Russian

Destination: Poland - Medieval Jews found religious tolerance and economic opportunity in Poland - essay by Shmuel Cygielman from Medieval Jewish Civilization: An Encyclopedia

Cyberroad: Jews in Poland

Poland - essays by Moshe Rosman, Gershon Bacon, and David Engel

Polish-Jewish Relations

Jewish Community of Poland

Jewish Community of Łódź, Poland

Jewish Community Centre of Kraków / Centrum Społeczności Żydowskiej w Krakowie

Jewish Community Center of Warsaw / Centrum Społeczności Żydowskiej, Warszawa

Chabad-Lubavitch Centers in Poland

Żydowskie Stowarzyszenie Czulent (Jewish Association Czulent), Kraków

Jewish Bookshop and Tourist Agency, Kraków

Galicja Żydowskie Muzeum (Galicia Jewish Museum), Kraków

Jewish Krakow: A Visual and Virtual Tour

Gszarim Foundation, Warsaw

Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland

Chaim Piast - Jewish Submarine

Polin Travel, Kraków - guided tours of Jewish sites in Poland and Galicia

Dziedzictwo Polskich Żydów (Polish Jews Heritage)

Forum Żydów Polskich

Festival of Jewish Culture

Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich (POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews), Warsaw

Virtual Shtetl

Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies

The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw

Fundacja Centrum Taubego Odnowy Życia Żydowskiego w Polsce (Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland Foundation), Warsaw

Jewish Renewal in Poland: Beit Polska or their Polish-language site

Association of Descendants of Jewish Central Poland

UKRAINE

United Jewish Community of Ukraine

Institut Yudaiki / Institute of Judaica, Kiev

NCSJ: Ukraine and its Jews

The All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress

Chabad-Lubavitch of Kyiv

Tsentr doslidzhen' istoriyi ta kul'turi skhidnoyevropeys'kogo yevreystva / Center of Jewish Studies, Kiev

The Chernivitsi Museum of the History and Culture of Bukovinian Jews, Chernivtsi

Jewish Community of Dnipro

Jewish Community of Kherson - Chabad-Lubavitch

Jewish Vinnitsa

Chabad Odessa

Tikva Children's Home, Odessa

Migdal International Center of Jewish Community Programs, Odessa

The Faina Petryakova Scientific Center for Judaica and Jewish Art, Lviv

Limmud Ukraina

Chabad-Lubavitch Centers in Ukraine

Jewish Community of Uzhgorod and Karpaty, Uzhhorod

Subcarpathian Rus' Jewish Population

Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies (Ukrayins'ka asotsiatsiya yudayiki)

The Center for Jewish History and Culture, Kyiv

Judaica Ukrainica - academic journal

Religion and Nation in Habsburg Galicia - essay by John-Paul Himka

The Jews of Galicia under Austrian-Polish Rule, 1867-1918 - essay by Piotr Wrobel

Jewries in Galicia and Bukovina, in Lemberg and Czernowitz - essay by Albert Lichtblau and Michael John

Galicia Historic Outline

Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina

Galicia - essay by Rachel Manekin

Hebrew Epigraphic Monuments from Ukraine

The Virtual Jewish History Tour: Ukraine by Rachel Rosen

Ukraine - essay by Henry Abramson

Jewish History of Ukraine

The Jews of Ukraine. Who are they? - photo-essay at Ukraïner

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter: Timeline from Antiquity to 1914

How Russia’s war is undoing 30 years of Jewish community building in Ukraine - July 2022 article by Cnaan Liphshiz

Rohatyn Jewish Heritage

Trembowla's Jewish Birth Records

MOLDOVA

Jewish Community Center of Kishinev and Moldova

Chabad Lubavitch of Kishinev and Moldova

Jewish Renewal

The Virtual Jewish History Tour: Moldova - essay by Ariel Scheib

ROMANIA

Jewish Education Network

Lauder Reut School

The Bucharest Jewish Theatre (Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat)

Romanian Jewish Community

Chabad Lyubavitsh of Romania

Les Juifs en Roumanie - French essay in Los Muestros Magazine

Immigration and Settlement of the Jews in Bukowina - essay by Samuel Josef Schulsohn

The "Dr. Moshe Carmilly" Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History

The Jewish Community of Timisoara (Comunitatea evreilor Timisoara)

HUNGARY

Mazsihisz.hu

Hungary Jewish Communication Center, Budapest

Zsidó Flatalok Magyarországi Egyesülete

Hashomer Hatzair - Hungary - Jewish youth organization

Országos Rabbiképzo Intézet - Zsidó Egyetem (Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies)

Ashkenazium: Graduate School for Jewish Studies in Budapest

Zsidó Újság az Interneten - Jewish News from Chabad-Lubavitch

Szombat Magazin: Hungarian Jewish Culture

Múlt és Jövõ

JCC Budapest Bálint Ház

Lauder Javne Jewish Community School, Budapest

Szarvas Camp, the Lauder-JOINT International Jewish Youth Camp

Zsidó Fiatalaok Magyarországi Egyesülete (Hungarian Union of Jewish Students): Zsidó ifjúsági programajánló

Magyarországi Zsidó Örökség Közalapítvány

Great Synagogue, Budapest

Dohány Street Synagogue / A Dohány utcai Zsinagóga Honlapja, Budapest

Szim Shalom Progressive Jewish Community, Budapest

Keren-Or Chabad Israeli Center, Budapest

Debreceni Zsidó Hitközség (Debrecen Jewish Congregation)

Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár (Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives)

Memorial Museum of Hungarian-Speaking Jewry

Jewish History of Hungary

SLOVAKIA

The Museum of Jewish Culture Bratislava

Zidovská liberálna komunita v Bratislave

Chabad-Lubavitch Centers in Slovakia

Slovak Jewish Heritage

CZECHIA / CZECH REPUBLIC

Federation of Jewish Communities in Czech Republic

Jewish Liberal Union in the Czech Republic

The Jewish Museum in Prague

Bejt Praha: The Open Prague Jewish Community - Conservative Jews

Bejt Simcha: Jewish Liberal Community in Prague - Reform Jews

Kehila Prag - Orthodox community

Chabad Prague

Old-New Synagogue, Prague

Lauder's Schools at Jewish Community in Prague

Jewish Prague - travel services

Walking Tour of Jewish Prague and the Old Jewish Cemetery

Private Tours Prague - travel to Jewish historical sites in Czech Republic

Kosher Prague - tours of Jewish Czechia, plus accommodations and kosher food services in Prague

Jewish Town Prague

King Solomon Restaurant, Prague

AUSTRIA

Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien

The Database of Jewish Communities: Community of Vienna

Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wein

Jüdisches Museum Hohenems

Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Graz

Wiener Jüdischer Chor (Vienna Jewish Choir)

Or Chadasch Wien

Jewish Welcome Service Vienna

City of Vienna: History of the Jews in Vienna

GERMANY

Ha-Galil Online: Juden in Deutschland

Jüdisches Museum Berlin

Juden.de

Union progressiver Juden in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz

Jung und Jüdisch Deutschland e.V.

All About Jewish Life in Berlin

Jewish Berlin - tours, kosher food, synagogue arrangements

New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation

Jüdische Gemeinde Berlin

Jüdische Gemeinde Mainz

Jüdische Gemeinde Aachen

Jüdische Gemeinde Bad Nauheim

Jüdische Gemeinde Bochum-Herne-Hattingen

Jüdische Gemeinde Celle

Jüdische Gemeinde Darmstadt

Jüdische Gemeinde Duisburg-Mülheim/Ruhr-Oberhausen K.d.ö.R.

Jüdische Gemeinde Düsseldorf

Jüdische Gemeinde Emmendingen

Jüdische Gemeinde Frankfurt am Main

Jüdische Gemeinde Gelsenkirchen

Jüdische Gemeinde Göttingen e.V.

Jüdische Gemeinde in Hamburg

Jüdische Gemeinde Hanau

Jüdische Gemeinde Herford-Detmold

Jüdische Gemeinde Krefeld

Jüdische Gemeinde Köln e.V.

Jüdische Gemeinde Lübeck

Jüdische Gemeinde Mannheim

Jüdische Gemeinde Marburg

Jüdische Gemeinde Münster

Jüdische Gemeinde Osnabrück K.d.ö.R.

Jüdische Gemeinde Pforzheim K.d.ö.R.

Jüdische Gemeinde Regensburg

Jüdische Gemeinde Rostock

Jüdische Gemeinde Stadt Potsdam e.V.

Jüdische Gemeinde zu Oldenburg

Jüdische Gemeinde Wiesbaden

Jüdische Kultusgemeinde Bielefeld K.d.ö.R.

Jüdische Kultusgemeinde Paderborn K.d.ö.R.

Landesverband der Jüdischen Gemeinden von Schleswig-Holstein K.d.ö.R.

Orthodoxe Jüdische Gemeinde zu Wolfsburg

Liberale Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover K.d.ö.R.

Menorah - Jüdische Gemeinde zu Bremerhaven

Synagogen-Gemeinde Köln

Israelitische Kultusgemeinde München und Oberbayern

Shalom Europa - Israelitische Gemeinde Würzburg und Unterfranken

Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt

Jüdisches Museum München

Jüdisches Museum Augsburg Schwaben

Jüdisches Museum Emmendingen

Jüdisches Museum Westfalen

Jüdisches Museum Worms Raschihaus

Jüdisches Museum Göppingen

Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur - Simon Dubnow

Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg

Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland / Jewish Life in Germany

Jüdisches Leben am Niederrhein

Jüdisches Leben Erfurt

Jüdische Orte in Frankfurt am Main

Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland

Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Juden in Deutschland

Jüdisches Waisenhaus Pankow

Alemannia Judaica: Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Erforschung der jüdischen Geschichte im süddeutschen und angrenzenden Raum

Walking Tour of Jewish Leipzig

THE CAUCASUS

Beit Juhuro Cultural Education Center - Mountain Jews in New York City

Noviy Rubezh (New Frontier) - Mountain Jewish newspaper in Russian

Jewish.ru: Antroponimika Gorskix Evreev

Evrei v Azerbaydzhane: Istoriya i Perspektivy - essay by Moshe Bekker

Antroponimika Gorskix Evreev - essay by Murat Karaketov

The Mountain Jews of Guba, Azerbaijan

It's an all-Jewish town, but no, it's not in Israel - article by Kevin Gould about Jews in Gyrmyzy Gasaba, Azerbaijan

Half a Haven: The Mountain Jews of Quba struggle to keep their 300-year-old shtetl alive

The Jews of Kuba, Azerbaijan

Jewish History of Azerbaijan

Dagestan's 'Mountain Jews' Flee Chaos - article by Judith Matloff

The Improbable Romance Between Israel and Azerbaijan - article by Alina Dain Sharon includes discussion of Mountain Jews

An Orthodox Jew in Azerbaijan - article by Rachel Avraham includes discussion of three Jewish ethnicities in Azerbaijan

The Mountain Jews and Their Fate During WWII - article by Andrej Umansky

The Unexpected Discovery of Vestiges of the Medieval Armenian Jews - essay by Kevin Brook

Jews in Medieval Armenia

International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies - Cemetery Project: Armenia

Jewish History of Armenia

Khazaria.com: Georgian Jews

World Congress of Georgian Jews

Red Book: The Georgian Jews

Red Book: The Mountain Jews of the Caucasus

MISCELLANEOUS JEWISH LINKS

MavenSearch - Judaica directory

Research in Jewish Studies at the University of Delaware Library

Jewish Studies at the Columbia University Libraries

World Zionist Organization

Eli Birnbaum's Jewish History Timeline

JewishGen KehilaLinks - Jewish communities around the world

Yizkor Book Project

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Jewish Australia

Congregation Sons of Israel - Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

Congregation Agudas Achim - Austin, Texas, USA

B'nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim - Glenview, Illinois, USA

Yeshivat Yavneh - Los Angeles, California, USA

Genesis in Glass - The Gropper Windows

The First Convert In Jewish History - essay by Rabbi David Zauderer

The Conversion to Judaism Resource Center || The Conversion Debate I || The Conversion Debate II || National Center to Encourage Judaism

The European Center for Jewish Students

Chabad on Campus

ISRAEL21c - news from Israel

Israel National News from Arutz Sheva

Jerusalem Post - news from Israel in the English language

Learn Hebrew Pod

Jews of China

Naaleh Torah - online courses

PicJew - Jewish photos and illustrations

FamilyTreeDNA.com - genetic testing service with many thousands of Jewish participants and many Jewish projects

Jews by Choice - article by Béla Pomogáts about the Szekely Jews of Transylvania

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela

The Jewish Kingdoms of Arabia - essay by Rabbi Joseph E. Katz

A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names

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