Jewish studies
Legend
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- Open access resource
- Free resource
- In-library-use only
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Sources for Background Information
Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Atlas
- Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion (Oxford)
- Encyclopedia Judaica
- Encyclopedia of modern Jewish culture
- The Cambridge dictionary of Judaism and Jewish culture
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Jewish Studies
- Routledge who’s who in Jewish history: after the period of the Old Testament
- Dictionary of Iberian Jewish and Converso Authors
- Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world
- The Oxford dictionary of the Jewish religion
- The YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
- The YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Online edition
- Encyclopedia of the Pioneers and Builders of Israel
- Encyclopedia of the Jewish diaspora : origins, experiences, and culture
- Who’s who in the Jewish Bible
- Codex Judaica : chronological index of Jewish history, covering 5,764 years of Biblical, Talmudic & post-Talmudic history
- Jewishencyclopedia.com First edition, published 1901-1906.
- Jewish Women. A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
Core and Additional Databases
Periodical Indexes, Bibliographies, Full-text Databases
- RAMBI: Index of articles in Jewish Studies.
- Index to Jewish Periodicals (EBSCO).
- Jewish Studies Source (EBSCO)
- Annotated Bibliography of Antisemitism 1965-
From Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, includes books, dissertations, master's theses, and articles from periodicals and collections. - Bar Ilan's Judaic Library
Multidisciplinary Databases
Including Jewish Studies-related material.
- America : History and Life 1964-
- ATLA Religion Database-
- British Humanities Index
- Central and Eastern European Online Library
- JSTOR
- FRANCIS
- Historical Abstracts
- MLA international bibliography
- PAIS International
- Sociological Abstracts (CSA)
- Humanities Full text (OVID)
Newspapers
- Compact memory. Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika. A virtual archive of 118 Jewish historical magazines and newspapers in German speaking countries from 1806 until 1938 when these were banned by the Nazis.
- Historical Jewish Press A collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods.
- The Jerusalem post
Yiddish resources
- Index to Yiddish Periodicals
- Di Tsukunft "The world's oldest Yiddish literary journal" published since 1892.
- Yidishe Heftn - Les Cahiers yidish Yidishe Heftn features articles dealing with cultural and literary issues (essays, poems, fiction, letters) and articles concerning important Israeli political events and distinguished Jewish individuals.
- National Yiddish Book Center
Full texts of over 10,000 works of modern Yiddish literature, comprising the National Yiddish Book Center's Steven Spielberg Digital Library. - Vilnius Yiddish Institute
- Writers in Yiddish. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 333
- YIVO Library Yiddish Books Full text of hundreds of Yiddish book published from the 1600 to the beginning of the 20 century.
Selected Internet Sites
Accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.
- McGill University Department of Jewish Studies
- Garment Worker's Legacy: The Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry
- Jewish Public Library (Montréal)
- Hebrew Books
A not-for-profit organization founded in order to preserve old American Hebrew books that are out of print and/or circulation. - Modern Hebrew Literature - a Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon
A Hebrew database of 2,000 entries updated daily about Hebrew authors. - The Judaica Europeana Consortium
- Judaica Sound Archives at FAU. A collection of over 11,000 digitized Judaica sound recordings in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English.
- Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory (WWW Virtual Library)
- Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
- Sefaria. An open source, not-for-profit project committed to bringing digital Jewish texts into the public domain
- DigiBaeck. Leo Baeck Institute. Digital collections of artifacts that document the rich heritage of German-speaking Jewry in the modern era. DigiBaeck provides instant access to materials ranging from rare 16th century renaissance books to memoirs that document the experience of German-Jewish émigrés across the world in the 20th century.
- Jewish Virtual LibraryIsrael Union Catalog
Over 6 million bibliographic records in the catalogues of the Israeli university and college libraries, as well as selected research institute and government libraries. - RACHEL. Réseau européen des bibliothèques judaique et hebraique.
E-Journals (Internet Resources)
- Sephardic Horizons An Online Journal about Sephardic culture, Sephardic music and the Ladino or Judeo-Spanish language.
- Melilah Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies
- Quntres An Online Journal for the History, Culture, and Art of the Jewish Book.
- WOMEN IN JUDAISM: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL An academic, refereed journal published exclusively on the Internet, and devoted to scholarly debate on gender-related issues in Judaism.
- JEWISH STUDIES, AN INTERNET JOURNAL JSIJ is a peer-reviewed, electronic journal dealing with all fields of Jewish studies, published by the Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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