General

•The Jewish Museum
• Jewish Virtual Library
An extensive source of history, maps, biographies, and more. Covers Jewish civilization from ancient times to the present.

Ancient Jewish History

• The Hebrews: A Learning Module
Washington State University's World Civilizations project. A source on early Jewish history from the Patriarchs to the Roman diaspora.

The Middle Ages

• Medieval Jewish Life
Fordham University's sourcebook project on the Medieval period.

•Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Multimedia Learning Center
• Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
• Ghetto Fighters House
• Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
• Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation
• Cybrary of the Holocaust

Eastern Europe

•Beyond the Pale
A history of the Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe from the Middle Ages to the present.

America

• Center for Jewish History
• American Jewish Historical Society
• American Sephardi Federation
• Yeshiva University Museum
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
• History of Jews in America
This site is dedicated to 19th Century Jewish-American history, including the Civil War and the Western frontier.
• The Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Israel

•The Jewish Agency
• Beth Hatefutsoth/ Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
• The Israel Museum
•The Central Zionist Archives

•JewishGen®

The DVD-ROM Resource Guide includes additional information to help understand major themes in the series. Using select historical documents, multimedia presentations and video on the DVD-ROM, the 'Pathways' follow major topics in Jewish development.

Teachers Resource pages and Student Worksheet pages are also available for each episode. Individual episode pages can be dowloaded from the Lesson Plans page.

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The following archive files contain Bookmarks to over 400 points of interest on the Heritage DVD-ROM, sorted into six general subject areas drawn from the Heritage DVD-ROM Resource Guide's 'Suggested Pathways'.

Windows (43.8k):
Heritage_bookmarks.zip

Macintosh (37.3k):
Heritage_bookmarks.sit

Instructions for loading custom Bookmark sets in the Heritage DVD-ROM:

1. Decompress the downloaded file using WinZip (Windows) or StuffIt Expander (Mac).
2. In the Heritage program, open the Bookmarks panel by clicking on "BOOKMARKS" on the rise-up menu along the bottom of the Heritage program Window. The rise-up menu can be activated by clicking on the "H" watermark logo located in the lower right corner of the window.
3. Click on "OPEN ANOTHER SET". A standard 'Open File' dialog will appear.
4. Navigate to the location of the decompressed downloaded bookmark files and select the desired file (Heritage Bookmark files are HTML files that end in ".htm"). The selected file will become your default Heritage Bookmark file for the remainder of the current Heritage session or until a different Bookmark set is opened.