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Our Guides

Posen Library's Guides provide background information about our sources, situating them in their historical contexts.
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Introducing Guides from Posen Library

Our new Guides to Jewish Civilization and Culture—presented on pages across the Posen Library site—highlight key topics and themes, incorporating relevant background and contextual information, related primary sources, creator biographies, and linked keywords for additional research. They reveal relationships and conversations within a broader theme and provide points of entry into topics that interest you. 

How to Find Guides

Find this rich, contextual material through search and in the sidebar of individual primary source pages.

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What’s Available Now and Coming Soon

Guides are currently available for ancient Israel (from its beginnings through 332 BCE) and parts of the early modern and modern periods (1750–1880 and 1939–1973). 

 

We will be adding guides from other periods over the course of 2025.

 

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Register and sign up for updates when new Guides and other content become available.