A living Jewish atlas
Jewish life, mapped across time.
אַטְלָס חַי
Trace Hebrew words, Jewish languages and communities through a sourced canon, from Baghdad and Vilnius to the Hebrew Israelis speak today.
- Hebrew and Jewish words
- 186
- Hebrew and Jewish words
- places, then and now
- 204
- places, then and now
- Jewish languages
- 12
- Jewish languages
- guided stories
- 8
- guided stories
Start with a question
What are you curious about?
Why do Israelis say sababa?
Follow one word from origin to everyday use.
Follow the wordWhat happened to the Jews of this city?
A community timeline for any place in the canon.
Browse placesWhat language did my grandparents speak?
Twelve Jewish languages as one constellation.
Meet the languagesHow did Hebrew come back to life?
Guided routes with a beginning and an end.
Start a storyWhere do Jewish communities live today?
The whole canon on one still surface.
Open the mapWhat did the Jewish world look like in 1492? in 1910?
Scrub three thousand years across twelve eras.
Walk the erasPeople & Places
See the Jewish world, then and now.
- Where are Jewish communities today?
- What was the Jerusalem of Lithuania?
- Who lived in Baghdad in 1940?
204 places · 20 migrations
Enter this lens →Memory & Culture
See the stories, texts, and traditions tied to a place.
8 guided stories · traditions & texts
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Guided story · 7 stops · 6 min
How Hebrew returned to everyday life
A language of prayer and scholarship becomes a language of bus stops, arguments, and love songs, the only revival of its kind in history.
Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · 1881–1948|◈ Sources: Academy of the Hebrew Language; Sefaria
How the Atlas works
Curated, sourced and dated.
Every fact has a source
Claims link to the dictionary, census or study they come from, with a confidence label when scholars disagree.
Every number has a year
Populations and speaker counts are dated estimates, never averaged and never presented as today.
Corrections are welcome
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