Welcome to the New Posen Library
Now Available!
Jewish Studies Curriculum Initiative
Ready-to-use undergraduate teaching modules, curated by leading scholars. Each unit includes primary sources, expert interpretation, and supplementary resources for both students and instructors.
Featured Sources
Text and image sources now available on the site cover the biblical and rabbinic periods (through the year 600) and the early modern to contemporary periods (1500–present).
Omer Board
This omer board from Shearith Israel, the first Jewish congregation established in North America, keeps track of the days from Passover to Shavuot.
Never Say
Inspired by the Warsaw ghetto uprising, this hymn became the anthem of the Vilna partisan fighters and many other Jewish efforts to resist the Nazis.
Nocturne (Death of a Soldier)
This 1948 painting of a fallen soldier by Marcel Janco evokes Picasso’s Guernica.
Paper Cuts for Shavuot
Paper cuts were a distinctive Jewish folk art in Eastern Europe, where rural Poles and Ukrainians also practiced the craft. These Shavuot decorations were made for display in windowpanes.
Just Published!
Volume 3: Encountering Christianity and Islam, 600–1200, edited by Arnold E. Franklin, covers the religious, political, economic, and geographic transformations of Jewish life through the early Middle Ages.
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.
Passover across Jewish Time and Space
Passover is the most celebrated holiday for American Jews. Yet, few appreciate the historical evolution and diversity of its key themes and messages.
Jewish Resistance and the Holocaust
From armed confrontation to religious defiance, Jews fought back against the perpetrators of the Holocaust.
Jewish Gauchos in South America’s Pampas
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the help of philanthropic organizations, many Jews escaping persecution in Russia made new lives for themselves in the South American pampas.
Gender Roles
Engage with the gendered dimensions of Jewish life and discover lost voices of Jewish women.
Jewish Perspectives on Reproductive Rights
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June of 2022, abortion’s political, religious, and social impact has been at the forefront of political debate in the United States.