Sample letters requesting information from archives
-in numerous languages

Inquisicion and other early Hispanic Archives
Extensive listing of archives.

Ben-Zvi Institute for the studies of Jewish Communities in the East, Jerusalem
-Oriens Judaicus Series-Sources for the History of Jews in Muslim Lands
-Expulsion of the Jews from Spain Research Project
-Writings of Rabbi Itzhak Luria (XVI century Kabbala) -etc.
Makhon Ben Zvi Leheker Kehilot Yisrael Bamizrah, P.O.Box 7660, Jerusalem 91076, Israel. Tel +972-2-639204.
Library at 13 Ben Ezra St., Jerusalem-large collection of manuscripts and books.

The Center for Research and Study of the Sephardi and Oriental Jewish Heritage - Misgav Yerushalayim
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. Tel +972-2-883962.

Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP)
Kettubot 1819-1933

ALGERIA
Constantine - Community archives (1795-1960)
Lists of documents concerning Jews in non-Jewish Algerian archives (17th-19th centuries)

GREECE / TURKEY
Thessaloniki - Community archives (1913-1946)
Istanbul - 'Pinkassim' of the rabbinical court (1839-1841)
Izmir - Community archives (1760-1970)

ITALY
'Pinkassim' and documents from Jewish communities, including Alessandria, Ancona, Ferrara, Finale, Modena, Padua, Pisa, Rome, Rovigo and Venice [original and microfilm] (16th-19th centuries)
Lists of documents concerning Jews in non-Jewish archives

MOROCCO
'Pinkassim' and documents, inter alia from Casablanca, Fes, Meknes, Mogador and Sefrou (1710-1963)

THE NETHERLANDS
Amsterdam - Portuguese community archives [microfilm] (17th - 20th centuries)

RUMANIA
Bucharest - Remnants of the Ashkenazic and Sephardic community archives (1818-1947)

SPAIN
Surveys of documents concerning the Jews in non-Jewish archives (12th-15th centuries)

TUNISIA
Tunis - 'Pinkas' of the Portuguese community (1710-1936)

The Bension Collection of Sephardic Manuscripts , at the Alberta University Library, Canada .
For excellent summary descriptions of the manuscripts see Aranov's "Descriptive listing of the Bension collection...", Alberta U. Press

AIU (Alliance Israelite Universelle),
45 Rue La Bruyere 75009 Paris, France

Archives d'Outres-Mer, Aix en Provence, France ,
Records of French colonies

Archives departmentales, Nantes, France

Lehman Collection at the Yeshiva University Archives, NYC
Records of the Cairo Jewish Community - 1886-1961.
500 West 185 St., New York, NY 10033. Tel (212) 960-5451

Bet Din, Casablanca ,
Records of Moroccan Jewry

Jewish Theological Seminary Archives, NYC
Morrocan Records.

Centro di Documenazione Ebraica
Italian Jewry, at Via Eupil 8, 20145 Milan, Italy.

Centro Bibliografico
Italian Jewry, at Lungotevere Sanzio 5, 00153 Rome, Italy.

Cairo Jewish Community and other Middle-Eastern Jewish records
Contact Carmen Weinstein at mailto:bassatine@geocities.com, or by snail mail to the Cairo Jewish Community at
Mrs Carmen Weinstein, Communaute Juive du Caire, 13 Rue Sabyl El Khazinda Abbassieh, Cairo, Egypt. (Unfortunately being short-staffed, responses may be very slow).

Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Institute
List of researchers at the D.R.I.C. in Israel and NYC.