Selected Resources for:
Jewish Studies

RAMBI  

http://jnul.huji.ac.il/rambi/

1966- .

Selective bibliography of research articles relevant to the field of Judaica. Material is compiled from several thousand English, Hebrew, Yiddish and European language sources. Much of the material reflects the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library.

Location: Reshimat ma'amarim be-mada'e ha-yahadut Ref Z6367 .R34 (1982-1998).

Academic Search Premier   

http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph

1965- (varies).

Provides full text for 4,486 publications (3,718 peer-reviewed) covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. A total of 8,224 titles are abstracted and indexed, of which 7,132 are peer-reviewed.

FRANCIS   

http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=francis-set-c&adv=1.If

FRANCIS, a multilingual, multidisciplinary database, provides abstracts in French or English, and descriptors in both languages, and includes coverage of journals, books, conference papers, and other materials in the humanities and social sciences. It contains more than 1 million citations for publications on archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, religion, and sociology. Its coverage of articles and books on French language and literature is particularly strong.

IBZ - International Bibliography of Periodical Literature  

http://0-gso.gbv.de.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/DB=2.4/LNG=EN/

1983- .

An international and interdisciplinary bibliography of academic periodical literature mainly from the humanities, social sciences and the arts, with some science. Contains over 2,553,260 journal articles from about 10,785 journals covering the years 1983 to the present. Approximately 120,000 entries are added to the database annually; it is updated monthly. The article data in IBZ includes a subject classification in German and English based on the German Personennormdatei (name authority file -PND) and Schlagwortnormdatei (controlled vocabulary - SWD).

Location: LAU Stacks AI9 .B5

JSTOR   

http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years. For more recent articles, use one of the other indexes listed in this section.

Project Muse   

http://0-muse.jhu.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu:80/journals/

Mid-1990s- (dates vary by title).

Provides access to almost 250 journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and 40 other scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. You can search across all journals in the database, selected subsets of journal titles or just a single title. Full text is available for titles marked with a green arrow.

קיצורים וראשי תיבות בעברית  

http://www.kizur.co.il/home.php

Comprehensive database of Hebrew abbreviations (ראשי תיבות)

Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia  

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia

Web version of the 2006 CD-ROM "Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia", ed. P. Hyman and D. Ofer. Includes interactive features such as discussion groups.

Morfix  

http://www.morfix.co.il/

Online Hebrew dictionary and web search engine. Includes a parser, and can therefore analyze inflected forms and nouns with pronominal suffixes. Result lists provide full nikud.

‏האנציקלופדיה העברית  

ha-Entsiklopedyah ha-'Ivrit, also known as the Encyclopaedia Hebraica, is a standard reference work on all aspects of Judaism and Israel. Print version in Hebrew only.

Location: LAU Stacks AE30 .E5

Jewish Encyclopedia  

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/

Online edition of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The site contains the unedited contents of the original encyclopedia.

Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish History (e.g., the creation of Israel, the Holocaust, etc.). However, it does contain articles that remain valuable even today.

Center for Jewish History - Catalog  

http://www.cjh.org/collections/catalogs.php

The combined catalog for the follwing institutions dedicated to the study of all aspects of Jewish culture, art, and history:

• American Jewish Historical Society
• American Sephardi Federation
• Leo Baeck Institute
• Yeshiva University Museum
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

The online catalog also offers links to digital collections, and to finding aids to archival collections held at these institutions.

Israel Union List  

http://aleph3.libnet.ac.il/F?func=find-b-0&local_base=uli02&con_lng=eng

The Israel Union List is provided by the Inter-University Center for Digital Information Services. It is a Union catalogue of Academic Libraries in Israel, and includes reference to books, pamphlets and serials in Hebrew and other languages. Please note the following:

• There are separate English and Hebrew interfaces
• Author listings are not fully cross-referenced: searching for a name in English and in Hebrew will retrieve two separate sets of results!
• Copy and paste Hebrew titles to search WorldCat; WorldCat will show Georgetown holdings, and titles listed in WorldCat can be ordered through Inter-Library Loan services
• A separate Union Catalogue of Serials is available, which includes full holdings information

Lost Art Internet Database  

http://www.lostart.de/index.php3?lang=english

A project of the German Federal and Regional governments. It documents cultural objects which were relocated, moved or seized from their Jewish owners, as a result of persecution under the Nazi dictatorship and the Second World War.

Archives de l'Alliance Israélite Universelle  

http://www.archives-aiu.org/aiu/index.htm

Catalog of the archives of the AIU. Also provides access to biographical files, particularly on French and North African Jewry.

עיתונות יהודית היסטורית  

http://jpress.tau.ac.il/view-english.asp

Online repository of historical Jewish newspapers, including Jewish papers published in the Arab world, the Yishuv, and during the first years of statehood. Newspapers are in Hebrew, English, French and Judeo-Arabic, and are displayed as images. The full text is searchable, and the advanced search interface permits the use of wildcards.

Compact Memory - Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika  

http://www.compactmemory.de/

Full-text access to complete runs of over 100 German-Jewish periodicals published between 1806 and 1938. Some bilingual German-Hebrew, but apparently no Yiddish. A Full-text search function is available for some titles.

Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project  

http://pjn.library.cmu.edu/

1895-present

"The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project is composed of The Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), The American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962), and The Jewish Chronicle (1962-Present). This project serves as both an online reference source and as a digitized historical documentation of the Jewish community of Pittsburgh and its outlying areas."

Centropa - Jewish Oral History  

http://www.centropa.org/

Interactive website devoted to the history of Europe's Jewish communities. Combines old family pictures with the stories that go with them. Contains more than 1,350 interviews and 25,000 digitized images. Covers Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Sephardic communities of Greece, Turkey and the Balkans.

האוצר : אוצר הספרים היהודי  

http://library.georgetown.edu/service/cdnet/app.cfm?appname=Torah

CD-ROM Network Instructions; Version 12. Contains 613 classical Jewish books and texts, with indexes and concordances. In Hebrew.

*Friedberg Genizah Project  

http://www.genizah.org/

Online database with 100K++ texts from the Cairo Geniza. Registration is required, but free. An essential tool for research on the Geniza, and on Judaism in the Middle Ages.

דעת - מרכז לימודי יהדות ורוח  

http://www.daat.ac.il/daat.html

Substantial online library of Hebrew texts in a wide variety of fields - from Alef (ezrahut) to Tav (tikshoret), with a focus on the early modern and modern periods. Various formats: HTML text, PDF and images (for older items and poetry with nikud)

אוצר כתבי יד תלמודיים  

http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/talmud/index.htm

Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts. This project brings together images of major Talmudic manuscripts from libraries throughout the world. The manuscripts are indexed to enable access by standard citation (tractate, daf and amud for the Talmud Bavli, and tractate, chapter and mishna for the Mishna). As the manuscripts are entirely in Hebrew and Aramaic, the navigation tools of this site are in Hebrew. Best viewed under Windows, with Explorer 5 or higher.

Hebrewbooks.org  

http://hebrewbooks.org/home.aspx

Virtual library with over 15K titles. Texts are in PFD, and include a large number of early printed editions of classic texts. In Hebrew only.

Zotero  

http://www.zotero.org/

Citation manager similar to Refworks. Unlike the latter, this utility works as a browser plugin for Mozilla Firefoz, and is therefore not easily portable. Unlike Refworks, however, it is fully Unicode-enabled, and can deal with diacritics in transliterated titles, as well as Non-Roman scripts.