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Jewish Virtual Library
America-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
URL http://www.us-israel.org
1998 to date; updated daily
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Last visited November 2002
Keyword Ethnic groups
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120310461950
The Jewish virtual library (JVL), formerly the Jewish Student Online Research Center (JSOURCE), calls itself "the most comprehensive online Jewish encyclopedia in the world". It is sponsored and maintained by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, a nonprofit organization promoting cooperative US-Israeli activities.
The JVL contains more than 8,000 articles and 3,000 photographs and maps. The content is organized under 13 "wings": History, Women, the Holocaust, Travel, Israel & the States, Maps, Politics, Biography, Israel, Religion, Vital Statistics, Reference, and Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress. This last is an online exhibit containing material from From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress. Each "wing" contains subcategories though which users can select from...