Selected Resources for:
Hebrew

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.

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.

קיצורים וראשי תיבות בעברית  

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

Comprehensive database of Hebrew abbreviations (ראשי תיבות)

לקסיקון הספרות העברית החדשה  

http://library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/

An excellent, comprehensive online dictionary of modern Hebrew authors. Entries are arranged alphabetically, and include a short biography and bibliographical references. In Hebrew only.

Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature  

http://www.ithl.org.il/mainpage.html

The Institute's directory of Hebrew authors provides a brief biography and a list of the author's works in Hebrew and in translation.

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

Yale Hebraica Team  

http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/hebraicateam/

Page created by the Hebraica Cataloguing Team at Yale. It offers guidance on issues that you may come across in your research:

• Transliteration: how Hebrew is represented in US library catalogues
• Hebrew keyboard: how to type in Hebrew
• Gematria: How to read Hebrew dates
• Talmud: how to find tractates
• ... and more

Bibliography of the Hebrew book  

http://www.hebrew-bibliography.com/

"The Bibliography of The Hebrew Book is a rich and comprehensive bibliography of approximately 90% of books printed in the Hebrew Language between 1470 and 1960. The repository was Developed by The Institute for Hebrew Bibliography founded by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Israel Ministry of Education and Culture, Bialik Institute, and Goldman Publishers. The Bibliography of The Hebrew Book includes over 141,000 documents and 15,000 biographical authority records."

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

kolisrael.com  

http://www.kol-israel.com/

News sources and links to a wide range of web sites including sources of Arab news in English.

האקדמיה ללשון העברית  

http://hebrew-academy.huji.ac.il/index.html

"Brought into being by legislation in 1953 as the supreme institute for the Hebrew Language, the Academy of the Hebrew Language prescribes standards for modern Hebrew grammar, orthography, transliteration, and punctuation based upon the study of Hebrew’s historical development. "

עיתונות עברית היסטורית  

http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/newspapers/about.html

Itonut Ivrit Historit. Repository for historical Hebrew newspapers, such as ha-Melits and others. Complete runs. Presented as images.

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.

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)

פרויקט בן-יהודה  

http://benyehuda.org/

Proyekt Ben Yehuda. Virtual library for the classics of Hebrew literature. Offers the complete works of Bialik, Rahel and others, a good selection of medieval poetry (Ibn Gabirol, Ibn Ezra, Yehuda Halevy ...), and collected articles (Ahad ha-Am and of course Ben Yehuda). HTML text, poetry with nikud.

מאגר ספרות הקודש  

http://kodesh.snunit.k12.il/

Virtual library of religious texts, including Tanakh, Talmud Bavli, and Talmud Yerushalmi. Texts are in HTML, and are fully searchable. In Hebrew only.

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.

RefWorks  

http://0-www.refworks.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/refworks

RefWorks is an online research management, writing, and collaboration tool designed to help researchers gather, manage, store, and share information and generate citations and bibliographies.

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.