Welcome to the New Posen Library
Our Curated Collections
On this site you can explore our curated collections, which demonstrate how our text and image sources can be used to illuminate, inspire, and engage, providing unique opportunities to create conversations about Jewish history and culture across time and geography. Register for free access to the sources in these collections.
Featured Sources
Text and image sources now available on the site represent about half of the full collection, with more coming soon. They include ancient Israel's beginnings (up to 332 BCE) and the period from 1750 until 1973.
“A Seder Night”
“Never Say”
Just Published!
Volume 7: National Renaissance and International Horizons, 1880–1918, ed. Israel Bartal and Kenneth B. Moss, offers over 1,000 texts and images from Arabic to Yiddish, from mystical visions to revolutionary poetry—an essential starting point for understanding the Jewish 20th century
More coming soon!
Posen Library is a dynamic and expanding resource. More than 2,000 additional sources from 1500 to 2005—essential for understanding Jewish modernity—will be available digitally in spring 2024.