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Jewish Studies Guide

Sources for works on Judaism and the Jewish People

What is Jewish Studies?

The study of all aspects of Judaism and the Jewish people, including theology, ethics, history, languages, culture, customs and rituals, relations with other religions, etc.

 

Journal Articles

 

Use an index
   Indexes specific to religion (online & print)

  • RAMBI: The index of articles on Jewish Studies Online
  • Religion Index – ATLA Online
  • Religious and Theological Abstracts BL1 .R24 REFERENCE
  • Old Testament Abstracts  BS410 .O42 REFERENCE
  • Index of Jewish Periodicals Z6367 .I5 REFERENCE

General indexes for history, literature, sociology          

  • Academic Universe Online
  • Historical Abstracts Online
  • Philosopher’s Index Online

 

Reference Sources

  • Encyclopedia Judaica  DS102.8 .E497 REFERENCE
  • Encyclopedia of Judaism, 2n ed DS102.8 .E497 REFERENCE
  • Encyclopedia of Jewish History: Events and Eras of the Jewish PeopleDS114 .E53 1986REFERENCE
  • Encyclopedia of the Holocaust D894.3 .E53 1990 REFERENCE
  • Atlas of Jewish History  G1030 .C359 1994 REF-ATLAS REFERENCE

 

Books

 

            WebCat

            WorldCat

 

 

Sacred Texts

 

Bible

  • TANAKH: The Traditional Hebrew Text and the New JPS Translation BS895 .J4 1999
  • Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary  BS1222 .L54 2001

Talmud

  • The Talmud [Babylonian Talmud]: the Steinsaltz Edition, Hebrew-English. BM499.5 .E4
  • Talmud from the Land of Israel [Jerusalem Talmud] Prliminary translation by Jacob Neusner BM506

 Mysticism

  • Zohar [The Book of Slendor] BM525 .Z6 1978

 

Text Collections

 

Dead Sea Scrolls

 

Basic Concepts

General   
Ancient Israel
Antisemitism
Ethics, Philosophy, Theology, Ritual
History
Holidays, Traditions, & Rituals
Holocaust
Jews in Arab and Muslim Lands
Jews in Europe
Jews in the Americas
Kabbalah/Mysticism
Israel/Zionism
Music/Art/Folklore
Relations with Christianity & Islam
Sephardic & Oriental Jews
Women

 

Films of Jewish Interest

Selected films from Rice's collection. (click here)


 

Websites

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