A jewish web archive page

Being Jewish, I just wanted to make this page to comemmorate the sites dedicated to judaism and jewish culture on the internet, especially the older ones. Most of these are from the wayback machine. I also want to show what Judaism looks like around the world through this web archive

Shabbat

Menorah

Latkes

Abbreviation of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic phrase Besiyata Dishmaya, which means with help from the heavens

Jewish Star

Torah scroll

Parochet, or a cloth that covers the Torah scrolls ark

A Mezuzah, something some Jewish people put on the front door of their houses as well in certain rooms of their houses. There are usually portions from the torah on a small piece of paper inside

Shofar, used during Yom Kippur observances

Torah Pointer, used during the reading of the torah so the ink of the torah doesn't smudge

Ketubah, a kind of contract signed before marriage in Judaism. Today it isn't really an official thing and is more just used for ceremonial purposes

Translation: Speak Yiddish with me! (Language: Yiddish)

Baruchim Habaim, or Welcome in Hebrew

From website about Kehillat Beijing, or Beijing's jewish community, 2001

Translation: Welcome (Shalom-Aleichem) Language: Yiddish

From website of the Yiddish Book Center, 2002

Pakn-Treger, the magazine of the Yiddish Book Center, 2002

Di Goldene Pave, a peacock symbol in Yiddish poetry

Taken From the Yiddish website Shtetl, 2001

A Sukkah for the Holiday Sukkot

Jewish Calendar, 2000

Adat Yeshurun synagogue, Stockholm , Sweden, 2001

One of the Logos of Camp Kinderland, founded by members of a leftist Jewish organization in 1923.

Taken from Camp Kinderland website, 2004

A Yahrzeit is the anniversary of the Jewish calendar date when someone died

Boston's Vilna Shul, 2003

Jewdas

Picture from Zurich-based restaurant Schalom's website, 2002

From website for a Yiddish radio program called the Yiddish Voice

translation: Store (language: Ladino)

Ad for a sephardic music CD from myladino.com, 2014

Front page of El Amaneser, a Ladino-Language newspaper based in Turkey

Ketubah in Aramaic

Logo of Brazilian Synagogue, 2002

Logo of Jewish music group Black Ox Orkestar

Picture from a synagogue I went to for a half day school program when I was about 4, picture taken 2002

Translation: Forum for Polish Jews (Language: Polish)

Translation: What's New? (Language: Hebrew)

Ad from Yiddish Daily Forward, 2001

Hannukah Celebration in Pudong, Shanghai, 2005

Jewish cemetery in Lida, Belarus, early 1900's

Yiddish film poster, early 1900s

Memorial for Bundist (anti/non zionist, Yiddish autonomist, left-wing group) Vladimir Medem, circa 1923

Postcard in Yiddish commemorating the 10th year anniversary of a sanatorium created in honor of Medem, 1935

A Page of someone's family history in Lithuania, from Eilat Gordon Levitan's website, 20??

1935 postcard with text stating Knowledge Is Power and Unity Is Power in Yiddish

Sukkot in Krakow, Poland, 1930's

Belarusian Jewish family, 2001

Jewish residential area in Warsaw, 1930s

Woman selling pletslekh breads in Warsaw, 1927

Jewish labor bund photo book, 1922

Jewish-led May Day protest against militarism, Nowy Dwor, Poland, 1920's

Jewish Socialist Bund organized exhibit, 1920's

Yeshiva students in Lida, Belarus, early 1900's

Picture of Rabbi Isaak Elchanan Spektor of Kaunas, Lithuania, 1800's

Cantors/Hazzanim of Vilnius, Lithuania

pic from Eitz Chayim Synagogue in Cleveland, Ohio, 2002

Ethiopian Jew, 2000s

Ethiopian Jews celebrating the holiday of Sigd, 2003

Ethiopian Jewish outfit, 2000s

Sigd celebration in New York

Ethiopian Jews Helen Alefe, Bizu Riki Mullu and Yael Bayna in Brooklyn, early 2010s

A synagogue in Harlem,1940s

Wolleka , Ethiopia (center for Ethiopian Jews)

Wolleka Synagogue, Ethiopia

Gondar, Ethiopia, 1932

Translation: Jewish museum of Berlin (Language: German)

Translation: There are jews that Samba! (language: Portuguese)

Interior of a Kosher Pizza Place, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2001

translation: A Jewish Brazilian bookstore (Language: Portuguese)

Translation: Selected activities for Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana (Language: Portuguese)

Building formerly home to Shaarey Tzedek Hebrew School, Detroit. Picture taken mid-2000s

Web banner for Warsaw's jewish community website, 2012

Hanukkah celebration by Bialystock's Jewish Community, 2012

A member of the Bnei Menashe of Northeast India, 2003

Bnei Menashe, Northeast India, 2003

Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Hong Kong, 2003

Library at Hong Kong JCC, 2003

Stele created by the jews of Kaifeng, China, 1400s

Scan of Prayerbook from Kaifeng, 1600s

Ohel Rachel Synagogue, Shanghai, 2013

Sephardic Synagogue in Hallandale Beach, Florida, 2020s (My family used to drive past this when we visited our family in Florida)

Synagogue in Santiago, Chile, 2002

Website for the Peruvian branch of a Jewish mutual aid organization, 1999

Preparing for Rosh Hashana, Brazil, circa 2002

Anche Chesed Synagogue, Linden, New Jersey, 2002

Yiddishweb logo

Poster for a Shavuot Observance, Brazil, 2008

Taken from website of Bibliotheque Medem, Paris's main Yiddish book archive

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