PSA: Don’t Sleep on the Internet Archive for Rare Jewish Treasures

The Internet Archive is an incredible resource for finding rare, out-of-print, non-English, and other Jewish treasures.

You’ll likely have less luck going there to find a certain thing – no telling if you will – and better luck generally searching for random things to see what you find.

For instance, here are Hebrew Manuscripts from Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library. And here‘s a Ladino-Spanish Dictionary. Here‘s Sephardic folk songs recorded by ethnomusicologist Emily Sene. Here.flac)’s music of the Bukharan Jewish Ensemble. Here‘s a podcast episode out of Montreal on Black and Jewish music.

Make an account, virtually ‘borrow’ the media for free, look around. You’re likely to find something awesome.