The Jewish Studies research collections at Columbia exceed 150,000 monograph volumes and 1,000 current and historical periodical titles. The collection comprises about 60,000 Hebrew and Yiddish titles in addition to its large holdings of Jewish scholarly works in Western and Slavic languages.  Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library holds about 1,700 Hebrew and Jewish-related manuscripts, making Columbia's collection the largest collection of Judaica manuscripts in a secular research university in the United States. Columbia also subscribes to many electronic titles, both ebooks and databases, which pertain to Jewish Studies, and is an NYC repository for the Visual History Archive of the Shoah Foundation.

Digitized Collections from the Norman E. Alexander Library for Jewish Studies:

• Columbia's Judaica manuscripts at the Internet Archive
• Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry
• Italian Jewish Community Regulations
• Records of the Bolognan Inquisition

Online Exhibitions:

• The Melting Pot: Russian Jewish New York
  
• The People in the Books: Hebraica and Judaica Manuscripts from Columbia University Libraries
  
• Yiddish at Columbia
• The Jews of Corfu: Between the Adriatic and the Ionian