Welcome to the New Posen Library

Here you’ll find texts and images spanning more than 3,000 years of Jewish history and culture. Our free site aims to ensure that thought leaders and scholars of Jewish history can represent Jewish life holistically and with a multiplicity of voices.

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.

Painting of men cutting cloth and women sewing.

Engage with the gendered dimensions of Jewish life and discover lost voices of Jewish women.

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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.

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Illustration of two men, the simple son and the son who does not know to ask.

Passover is the most celebrated holiday for American Jews. Yet, few appreciate the historical evolution and diversity of its key themes and messages.

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Poster featuring two women in uniform, one of whom is wearing a mask, in front of a flag, and Hebrew writing along the top and bottom.

From armed confrontation to religious defiance, Jews fought back against the perpetrators of the Holocaust.

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Featured Sources

Text and image sources now available on the site cover all published volumes—including the biblical (through 332 BCE) and early modern to contemporary periods (1500–2005).

Jar with handle and inscribed with Hebrew letters.

Abecedaries from Kuntillet Ajrud

An abecedary is a list of the letters of the alphabet, written in order, for instruction or practice in writing, and perhaps also for other purposes. Four abecedaries were written on this large…

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Facing-page manuscript with Latin text on right-hand page surrounded by floral border and man in circular frame on top and bottom of page, and portrait of man on left-hand side surrounded by floral border and two cherubs with man in frames on top and bottom of page.

Diploma of Doctor of Medicine (University of Padua)

This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Jacob Mahler by the University of Padua, Italy. Mahler, born in Bingen-on-Rhine, Germany, studied medicine and philosophy, and in 1695 was awarded a…

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Bene ha-ne’urim (The Youth)

Jonas saw that he was successful in the study of these sciences and that he had mastered the Latin tongue; in addition, his younger brother, who would be taking over his role in the family had grown…

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Editorial: On Creating Barnard College

At the present moment there are from New York City and suburbs two women students at Cornell, four at Bryn Mawr, thirteen at Smith, seventeen at Vassar (besides fifteen in preparation for it) and…

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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

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Welcome to the New Posen Library

Our Curated Collections

Gender Roles

Jewish Perspectives on Reproductive Rights

Passover Across Jewish Time and Space

Jewish Resistance and the Holocaust

Featured Sources

Abecedaries from Kuntillet Ajrud

Diploma of Doctor of Medicine (University of Padua)

Bene ha-ne’urim (The Youth)

Editorial: On Creating Barnard College

Just Published!