Mediterranean History

Documents from British National Archives. Searchable TOC.

The Stanford University Libraries provides digital facsimiles of a rich collection of books, pamphlets, magazines, printed ephemera, posters, postcards, photographs, maps, architectural plans, and original documents about the early history of "The First Hebrew City" from the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Penn's libraries are home to a wide range of special and general collections related to the Holy Land during the 19th and 20th centuries. These include primary sources such as rare manuscripts, early modern printed books, travelogues, early photographs and printed postcards, engraved and hand-illustrated maps and atlases, original archeological artifacts, field reports, and extensive circulating secondary sources.

This site contains a collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods.

82 Titles, date range: 1908-1948, 156,287 pages, 24,376 issues. [National Library of Israel]

This collection comprises digital images of original periodicals held by the al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem. The collection consists of 13 newspapers and 11 magazines published mainly in Palestine, but also in Syria and Turkey, between 1874 and 1955.

Collection includes some 52,449 Hebrew books. Most of the material will be of interest primarily to students of Jewish philosophy, theology, prayer, the Talmud, halakha and other matters pertaining to Jewish ritual worship and practice, but there is much to be gained for anyone studying American and Jewish history or the history of Israel/Palestine.

"Collective memory is a vital element of communal identity, and this rich archive documents one element of Palestinian identity: the refugee experience…” – Filippo Grandi, UNRWA Commissioner-General.

Includes the Gazettes: Syrian Gazette (الجريدة الرسمية (سورية)) and The Palestine Gazette. The digital copies for both gazettes span 1919 to 1948.

The digital copies for the gazettes spans 1919 to 1948.

Includes facsimiles of Historical Jewish newspapers, photographs, maps, manuscripts, ketubot, and ephemera.

UN portal for documents and information on the Question of Palestine. Make sure to look under "UNISPAL" at "Search Documents" and "Legacy Documents Collection."

Consists of documents collected by the Reverend Father Krikor Guerguerian (12 May 1911-7 May 1988) throughout his life, starting from the 1930s until his death in 1988.