Millsaps-Wilson Library: Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies Indexes & Abstracts

 

• RAMBI (Index to Articles on Jewish Studies) Web Catalog
  http://aleph3.libnet.ac.il/F/?func=find-b-0&local_base=rmb01&con_lng=eng
• ABZU: a guide to information related to the study of the ancient Near East http://www.etana.org/abzubib
• Semanitics of Ancient Hebrew Database http://www2.div.ed.ac.uk/research/sahd/
• Bibliography of the Hebrew Book http://aleph.nli.org.il/F?func=find-b-0&local_base=mbi01

 

Millsaps Indexes and Full-Text Databases with Jewish Studies coverage

 

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
• ATLA Religion Database
• Britannica's Original Sources
• JSTOR
• Philosopher's Index
• Project Muse

 

See also, our list of Journals, Newspapers, Magazines with Jewish Studies Coverage.

Electronic Reference Books

• A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
• A Dictionary of the Bible
• Encyclopaedia Judaica
• Encyclopedia of Human Rights
• Holocaust Encyclopedia
• The Oxford Companion to the Bible
• The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion
• The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Print Reference Books

• The encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust - Reference Room - DS135.E8 E45 2001
• Encyclopaedia Judaica 2nd ed. - Reference Room - DS102.8 .E496 2007
• Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.  - Reference Room - D804.3.E53 1990
• Encyclopedia of Jewish history : events and eras of the Jewish people - Reference Room -DS118 .E465 1986
• Twentieth-century American-Jewish fiction writers - Reference Room - PS221 .D5 V.28

AJS review  (0364-0094)

	from 01/01/1976 to 11/30/2006 in JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Archive Collection

  Women in Judaism

	from 1997 to present in Directory of Open Access Journals

Comprehensive Research Sites

• Center for Jewish History http://www.cjh.org/
• iTanakh http://www.itanakh.org/
• Mendele: Forum for Yiddish Literature and Yiddish Language http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/wp/
• National Yiddish Book Center http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/
• US Holocaust Museum Library http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Library http://www.yivo.org/library/

 

Guides and Bibliographies

• Academic Guide to Jewish History http://link.library.utoronto.ca/jewishhistory/
• Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America (2004) http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/jewwom/jwmain.html
• Internet Jewish History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html
• The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature http://www.ithl.org.il/mainpage.html
• Jewish Language Research Website http://www.jewish-languages.org/
• Jewish Museum in Cyberspace - American Jewish Historical Society http://amuseum.org/
• Di Velt fun Yidish: The World of Yiddish http://yiddish.haifa.ac.il/index2.htm
• Center for Jewish History: Bibliographies http://www.cjh.org/p/131
• Musica Judaica Online Reviews  http://mjoreviews.org/

Archives & Repositories - Jewish Libraries & Digital Collections

• American Jewish Archives http://americanjewisharchives.org/index.php
• Early Hebrew Newspapers: Jewish National & University Library http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/newspapers/eng.html
• Etana: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives http://www.etana.org/
• Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews http://www.sephardifolklit.org/flsj/
• HebrewBooks.org - The Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books http://www.hebrewbooks.org/
• JNUL Digitized Book Repository http://jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/digibook.html
• Jewish National and University Library http://aleph500.huji.ac.il/F/?func=find-b-0&local_base=nnlall&con_lng=eng
• Jewish Theological Seminary Library http://www.jtsa.edu/library/
• Jewish Women's Archive http://www.jwa.org/
• Judaica Libraries/Archives/Research Centers http://www.princeton.edu/~pressman/libjew.htm
• Judaica Sound Archives http://wise.fau.edu/jsa/
• National Center for Jewish Film http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/ncjf.htm
• National Sound Archives: Jewish National & University Library http://jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/music.html
• Sacred Texts: Judaism http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/
• Seforim Online http://www.seforimonline.org/
• Sephardic Music: A Century of Recordings http://www.sephardicmusic.org/

Judaic Primary Texts

Jewish Bible: Tanakh and Mishneh Torah: The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in five editions (one with cantillation marks), English (JPS 1917), parallel Hebrew and English (voweled Hebrew and JPS English), and parallel Hebrew and French (voweled Hebrew and Rabbinat French); Mishneh Torah.

The Jewish Library: WikiSource (Hebrew interface): A repository of source Hebrew texts which are either in the public domain or are released under the cc-by-sa 3.0 license.

Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts: This database brings together images of major Talmudic manuscripts from libraries throughout the world. A collaborative project of the National Library of Israel, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project and the Hebrew University Department of Talmud.

Sol and Evelyn Henkind Talmud Text Databank: provides public access to all full surviving manuscripts of Oriental, Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Yemenite provenance; hundreds of complete manuscripts and first printed editions of the Babylonian Talmud; and more than a thousand fragments from the Cairo and European archives.

Soncino Babylonian Talmud: Translated into English with notes, glossary and indices under the editorship of Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein.

• Antisemitism
• Arab countries Foreign relations Israel.
• Arab-Israeli Conflict
• Bible. O T
• Hebrew literature - History and criticism
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Israel Antiquities
• Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 (etc.)
• Israel Biography
• Israel Description and travel
• Israel Politics and government
• Jewish-Arab relations
• Jewish law
• Jewish literature
• Jewish motion picture producers and directors
• Jewish musicians
• Jewish mythology
• Jewish women
• Jews
• Jews, American
• Jews Cultural assimilation
• Jews Dietary laws
• Jews Identity
• Jews in Motion Pictures
• Jews in the motion picture industry
• Jews. Liturgy
• Jews Mississippi
• Jews Music
• Jews, Oriental
• Jews United States
• Judaism History
• Judaism Liturgy
• Judaism Relations
• Judaism Southern States
• Mysticism Judaism
• Palestine History
• Seder Liturgy Texts
• Sephardim
• Sex Religious aspects Judaism
• Talmud
• Women in Judaism
• Women in rabbinical literature
• Zionism

If your article or book is not available at Millsaps Library, you can request a copy through Interlibrary Loan.

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