Databases: Indexes to Articles and Books

• The Annotated Bibliography of Antisemitism (BAS)
  From The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism comprises an on-line database accessible through Israel's university library network (ALEPH), and printed bibliographies. The bibliography includes works published throughout the world about antisemitism -- books, dissertations, master's theses, and articles from periodicals and collections. It does not include newspaper articles, reviews, and works of fiction, nor does it cover antisemitic publications. The project has two parts: The ongoing annotated bibliography (from 1984 to the present), and the retrospective bibliography, which lists books and articles, published prior to 1984 (presently includes works published from 1965-1983). The long-term goal is to compile a comprehensive listing of all works written about antisemitism throughout history. For the purpose of this bibliography, antisemitism is defined as antagonism toward Jews and Judaism as expressed in writings (e.g., the New Testament, polemical literature, works of fiction), in the visual arts (e.g., art, caricatures, films), and in actions (e.g., massacres and pogroms, discriminatory legislation, the Holocaust). Since 1988, the bibliography includes all works dealing with the Holocaust period (1933-1945) -- i.e., on antisemitic ideology, policy, and attitudes, as well as on the Jewish experience (memoirs, memorial books, etc.) -- in light of the fact that there is no other comprehensive current bibliography on this subject.

• ATLA Religion Database
  The American Theological Library Association’s ATLA Religion Database contains over one million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in 26 languages. It includes article citations from 650 journals, essay citations from 14,000 multi-author works, and book review citations. Coverage is from 1949 to the present.
  
  
• Bar-Ilan’s Judaic Library (version 9.0 )
  Searchable CD-ROM database of the Old Testament and rabbinical literature.
  Access Restriction: Available only on workstations in the Divinity Library.
  
  
• Benyehuda
  Online database of the classics of Hebrew literature in the public domain. More details.
  
  
• Index to Hebrew Periodicals
  Contains over 715,000 items, including: 1) The Index to Hebrew Periodicals, 1977 to date; 2) Eretz Israel Data Base (Earlier and non-Hebrew materials); 3) Tel-Hai Index to Israeli Newspapers, 1985-1992, 1994-1997 (selective); 4) Bar-Ilan University Index to Newspaper Literary Supplements, 1985-2005 (selective).
  
  
• Israeli Left Archive - Database of the Israeli Radical Left whose goal digitalize leaflets, internal documents, newspaper articles and press clippings, movement periodicals, photographs, protocols and other materials.
  
  
• The Legends of the Jews
  Database is an electronic text of a long commentary on Jewish theological thought and practice. The text may be browsed or searched.
  Access Restriction: Available only on workstations in the Divinity Library.
  
  
• MALMAD - Israeli Union Catalog
  The Israel Union Catalog (ULI) contains over 6 million bibliographic records in the catalogs of the Israeli university and college libraries, as well as selected research institute and government libraries. Most of the records in ULI are full MARC format cataloging and contain links to the records in the local catalogs of the holding institutions. ULI contains bibliographic records for all items held by the participating libraries, with the exception of articles (photocopies, offprints or analytics). While serial titles are recorded here as well, it is preferable to search serials in the Union List of Serials.


• Rambi:  The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
  From The Jewish National and University Library. A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, a world center for research on the Jewish people and Eretz Israel. The main criterion for inclusion in the bibliography is that the article be based on scientific research, or contain important information for such research. Since the inception of this bibliographic project in 1966, the editorial board has striven to include in it all of the important articles published throughout the world in the field of Judaica. Therefore, it includes offprints of articles from journals or collections not on order to the Library. Rambi also lists articles from secondary sources.

• Soncino classics collection Judaic Classics Library
  The classic works of Judaism: the Talmud, Midrash rabbah, and Zohar are presented on one CD, in the original Hebrew and Aramaic, complete with the authoritative Soncino English translation.
  Access Restriction: Available on non-networked workstation in the Divinity Library.

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Journals and Electronic Journals

Fulltext Online Journals

• AJS Review 1976-2001, from JSTOR
• AJS Review Vol. 26, no. 1 (2002) through current, from Cambridge University Press
• American Jewish History Vol. 84 (1996) through current, from Project MUSE
• Jewish History Vol. 14, no. 1 (2000) through current, from SpringerLink
• Jewish Quarterly Review 1888-2001, from JSTOR
• Jewish Quarterly Review 2002 through current, from EBSCOhost
• Jewish Social Studies 1975 through current, from EBSCOhost
• Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Vol. 1, no. 1 (2002) through current, from Informaworld
• Modern Judaism 1981-1999 (plus links to recent content 2000-2006)
• Modern Judaism Vol. 16 (1996) through current, from Project MUSE
• Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues No. 6 2003 through current, from Project MUSE
• Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 1928-2001, from JSTOR
• Prooftexts 1986 through current, from EBSCOhost
• Shofar 2000 through current, from EBSCOhost
  

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Book Review Sources and Indexes

• ASJ Reviews -- Scholarly articles and book reviews covering the field of Jewish Studies, available from Vol. 31, 2007.
• Shofar Book Reviews -- From Midwest Jewish Studies Association, Case Western Reserve University.

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Associations, Foundations, Organizations

• American Jewish Committee Archives -- Full-text of the American Jewish Year Book from 1899, interactive archival timelines, AJC radio from 1939, historic films and TV shows, and oral histories.
• Association for Jewish Studies
• Center for Jewish History -- Mission is to foster the creation and dissemination of Jewish knowledge and to make the historical and cultural record of the Jewish people readily accessible to scholars, students and the broad public.
• Centropa -- By the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation. Archive of materials describing the lives of Central and Eastern European Jews.
• Institute of Contemporary Jewry -- (A Harman)(Hebrew University) studies the historical, social, economic, educational, religious and cultural aspects of contemporary Jewish life.  Databases include:
  • Jewish Demography and Statistics Division
  • Oral History Division Library
  • Spielberg Jewish Film Archive -- web catalog
• Latin American Jewish Studies Association
• National Yiddish Book Center
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research -- Dedicated to the history and culture of Ashkenazi Jewry and to its influence in the Americas.

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Listservs and discussion groups

• H-Judaic -- Jewish Studies Network (JSN). With over 2000 subscribers worldwide, JSN is the premier electronic source concerning Judaica and the academic study and discussion of Judaism ancient, mediaeval, and modern.
• JEWISHNET (The Global Jewish Information Network)
• JEWISH STUDIES (Judaica eJournal) -- Devoted to on-going research and current events in Jewish Studies.
• Mendele -- Forum for Yiddish Literature and Yiddish Language.

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MasterSites

• Academic Info Jewish Studies -- Directory of Online Resources on Judaism
  
• Internet Resources for Jewish Studies -- from the University of Delaware Library
• Jewish Studies -- Part of the Virtual Religion Index maintained by the Department of Religion at Rutgers University

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Sites on Specific Topics

• Geniza
  
  • Friedberg Genizah Project
    
  • Princeton University Geniza Project
  • Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit -- From Cambridge University
• Jews in Film and TV: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library
• Spielberg Jewish Film Archive -- Includes web catalog
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Texts

Internet Texts (open access)

• Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd Edition) -- Updated edition of this lauded work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
• Jewish Encyclopedia -- Contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations from the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, published between 1901-1906.
• Modern Hebrew Literature -- a Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon - Compiled by Joseph Galron-Goldschläger.
• Internet Sacred Text Archive -- Contains Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), The Babylonian Talmud translated by M.L. Rodkinson [1918], The Talmud: Selections by H. Polano [1876], Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirqe Aboth) translated by Charles Taylor [1897], Hebraic Literature edited by Maurice Harris [1901], Tractate Sanhedrin, Mishnah and Tosefta by Herbert Danby [1919], Tractate Berakoth by A. Lukyn Williams [1921], Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg [1909].
  

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