Professor Shmuel Glick, Director and General Editor
Rabbi Aviad Rosenberg, Rabbinic Sources Coordinator
Rabbi Yehuda Bitti, Text-books Coordinator
Mr. David Kerschen, Thesaurus editor Rabbi Baruch Yonin
Mr. Moshe Maggid
Mrs. Hivit Kudinsky
Ms. Amy Simon

Mr. Israel Hazani, Editor and Proofreader

The JEDU-Treasures project is dedicated to advance and promote research for the study of the history of Jewish Education. This project focuses on three distinct sources:
1 – Unpublished literary fragments and Hebrew manuscripts.
2 – Rare books and out-of-print publications.
3 – Out-of-print Hebrew journals and newspapers published until 1914.
Our overarching goal is to preserve, document and annotate sources related to Jewish Education. Through the JEDU-Treasures database we intend to empower and equip a new generation of students, scholars, educators and academic institutions with resource material related to the history of Jewish Education.

JEDU-Treasures® (JEDUT) is an on-line database devoted to the history of Jewish Education from the Middle Ages until the advent of modern education at the beginning of the Twentieth century. JEDU-Treasures has been developed under the joint auspices of the Schocken Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the The Dov Rappel Center for Jewish Educational Thought of Lifshitz Teacher's College in Jerusalem.
JEDU-Treasures is an on-going project aimed to provide teachers, scholars and general readers with original Hebrew literary sources for understanding the history and development of Jewish education.

The following publications form an integral part of our project.
a) 1925-1943 – Publication of Professor Simcha Assaf's Mekorot le-toldot ha-Hinukh be-Yisrael (A Source Book for the history of Jewish Education from the beginning of the Middle Ages to the Period of the Haskalah).
b) 2000-2002 – Publication of a newly edited and annotated edition in three volumes of Mekorot le- toldot ha-Hinukh be-Yisrael under the sponsorship of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the Lifshitz College in Jerusalem. This work includes a new introduction, extensive indexes, a comprehensive bibliography on the history of Jewish education and maps of the centers of Jewish education.
c) 2004 – Production of Jedu Database: Mekorot – Sources for the History of Jewish Education on CD-ROM. This is the first attempt to generate a database on CD-ROM dedicated to the history of Jewish education.
d) 2006 – Publication of new Mekorot le-toldot ha-Hinukh be-Yisrael (Volume 4): Responsa from the Lands of Islam and the Ottoman Empire (16th-20th century); Shmuel Glick, editor . This book includes 330 newly published Responsa dealing with Jewish Education.
e) 2006 – The Dov Rappel Jewish Textbook Bibliographical project is integrated into the JEDU-Treasures data and image base. It includes annotated bibliographical notes and facsimiles of title pages of more than 1,500 Textbooks from the advent of printing until Jewish Education in modern times; edited by Rabbi Yehuda Bitti.
f) 2007 – Publication of new Mekorot toldot le-toldot ha-Hinukh be-Yisrael (Volume 5), Shmuel Glick, editor; including 230 new sources on the history of Jewish Education based on articles found in 19th century Hebrew periodical literature.

Full-text Hebrew sources on the history of Jewish education in rare books, pamphlets and manuscripts. These sources are:

Jewish Law(Halakhah)	Approbations (Haskamot)
Responsa (She'elot u-Teshuvot)	Liturgies
Hebrew Poetry (Piyyutim)	Philosophy
Sermons (Derashot)	Science Books
Ethical writings	Pinkasei Kehilot (Community
Grammars	Registers and Regulations
Hebrew Periodicals from the nineteenth century

• Sources - related to the history of Jewish Education (Rabbinca and Historical; presently more than 1000 sources)
• Bibliography – a comprehensive bibliography on the history of Jewish education by country and topic; more than 2,000 bibliographic entities
• Jewish text-book data bank – with facsimiles of the title-pages of more than 1,200 textbooks from the advent of printing until the modern era
• On-Line Maps – Linking cities and centers of Jewish Learning to our database
• Easy and Powerful Search Options
• Hyperext – to 20,000 links allowing users to access and navigate between sources.
• Thesaurus and index of educational terms allowing users to link terms in English with the Hebrew index

Assuming you are interested in women's education ("השכלת נשים"). By using the search function and typing "נשים, לימודן והשכלתן" you will get three sources from different lands (Germany, Italy Poland) and different periods (13th, 16th and 18th centuries) related to women’s education and pedagogical methodologies.
Alternatively, to save time, you can search via the INDEX under "אשה", "בחורות", "נשים"; or direct your QUERY to "נשים השכלתן". These searches will focus on the sources relevant to this subject alone.

* Updates of the Database by the Summer of 2008 will include 500 new sources from eastern and western European Responsa literature.
* Periodical Literature – Sources of Jewish Education in Hebrew magazines, journals, pamphlets and ephemeral literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
* Sources of Jewish Education located in Hassidic and Mussar literature.