Jewish studies

Sources for Background Information

Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Atlas

• Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion (Oxford)
• Encyclopedia Judaica
• Encyclopedia of modern Jewish culture
• Routledge who’s who in Jewish history: after the period of the Old Testament
• The Dent Atlas of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
• Holocaust literature : an encyclopedia of writers and their work
• Writers in Yiddish. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 333
• Dictionary of Iberian Jewish and Converso Authors
• 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

Encyclopedia (Internet Resources)

• Jewishencyclopedia.com
  First edition, published 1901-1906.

• Jewish Women. A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia

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Core and Additional Databases

Periodical Indexes, Bibliographies, Full-text Databases

• RAMBI: Index of articles in Jewish Studies.
• Index to Jewish Periodicals (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
• Judaic Classics Library CD-ROM

Multidisciplinary Databases

• America : History and Life 1964-
• ATLA Religion Database-
• British Humanities Index
• JSTOR
• FRANCIS
• Historical Abstracts
• MLA international bibliography
• PAIS International
• Sociological Abstracts (CSA)
• Humanities Full text (OVID)

Selected Internet Sites

• McGill University Department of Jewish Studies
  With link to At the Cutting Edge of Jewish Studies.
• Garment Worker's Legacy: The Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry
• Jewish Public Library (Montréal)
• Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies
• Historical Jewish Press
  A collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods.
• 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.
• 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.
• Europeana
  Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums,libraries,archives and audio-visual collections.
• Poland National Digital Library
  A selection of most outstanding representatives of Yiddish literature written before World War II.
• Compact memory. Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika
• Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory (WWW Virtual Library)
• Academic Guide to Jewish History
  "Major Print & Internet Scholarly Resources.". Maintained by University of Toronto Libraries.
• Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
• Jewish Women's Archive
• The Judaica Europeana Consortium
• Jewish Virtual Library
• "Jewish Question" in German Speaking Countries, 1848-1914
  Separate bibliography of the Felix Posen Bibliographic Project. Literature from and about the period 1848-1914, (available in print at McLennan Reference Z6373 E86 J48 1994) but currently being expanded to 1933. A continuation of Volkmar Eichstaedt's Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Judenfrage (1750-1848) in McLennan Reference Z6372 E34 1969.
• Israel 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.

E-Journals (Internet Resources)

• MENORAH - Illustrated monthly for the Jewish home / Illustrierte Monatsschrift für die jüdische Familie 1923-1932
  Full text of this Viennese Jewish monthly. In 1926 the subtitle changed to Jüdisches Familienblatt für Wissenschaft / Kunst und Literatur.
• Sephardic Horizons
  An Online Journal about Sephardic culture, Sephardic music and the Ladino or Judeo-Spanish language.
• 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.

Holocaust (Internet Resources)

• Holocaust/Shoah
• Remember.org: Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Voices of the Holocaust
  Full text of 70 interviews of survivors, conducted in 1946, with profile, summary, and in a few cases, the audio recording (in German, Yiddish, or Polish).
• Azrieli Foundation Holocaust Survivor Memoir

Helpful Resources

• Google language tool
• Library of Congress Transliteration tables
• Jewish Studies: a selective list of reference sources

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