Jewish Studies
Calendars
- Hebrew Date ConverterHebcal offers a powerful custom Jewish calendar tool that lets you generate a list of Jewish holidays for any year (past, present or future). Also available are a Hebrew date converter, Shabbat candle lighting times and Torah readings (both full kriyah and triennial system), and a page to look up yahrzeits, birthdays and anniversaries.
- Is Today a Jewish Holiday?A website that lists if today is a Jewish holiday.
- Jewish HolidaysDates of major and minor Jewish holidays. Each holiday page includes a brief overview of special observances and customs, and any special Torah readings.
Encyclopedias & Reference Books
General
Encyclopaedia Judaica by Fred Skolnik; Michael Berenbaum
Call Number: MH Reference DS102.8 .E496 2007ISBN: 9780028659282Publication Date: 2006-12-12
Encyclopedias of the Jewish Religion
The Encyclopedia of Judaism by Jacob Neusner (Editor); Alan J. Avery-Peck (Editor); William Scott Green (Editor); Alan Green (Editor)
Call Number: BM50 .E63 1999 REFISBN: 0826411789Publication Date: 1999-12-01Encyclopedia of Religion
Call Number: ebook and MH Reference BL31 .E46 2005ISBN: 0028657330Publication Date: 2004-12-17The New Encyclopedia of Judaism by Geoffrey Wigoder (Editor); Fred Skolnick (Editor); Shmuel Himelstein (Editor)
Call Number: BM50 .E63 2002 REFISBN: 0814793886Publication Date: 2002-09-01
History, Politics, and Culture
Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Culture, History, Politics
Call Number: JQ1830.A58 F3813 2005 REFISBN: 9780028659770Publication Date: 2004-12-20Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture by Glenda Abramson (Editor)
Call Number: DS102.8 .E56 2005 REFISBN: 041529813XPublication Date: 2005-01-12Historical Dictionary of Palestine by Nafez Nazzal; Laila A. Nazzal
Call Number: DS102.8 .N397 1997 REFISBN: 0810832399Publication Date: 1997-05-08Historical Dictionary of Zionism by Rafael Medoff; Chaim I. Waxman; Jon Woronoff (Editor)
Call Number: DS149 .M375 2000 REFISBN: 0810837730Publication Date: 2000-08-28Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia by Paula E. Hyman (Editor); Deborah Dash Moore (Editor)
Call Number: E184.J5 J495 1998 REFISBN: 0415919363Publication Date: 1997-11-05The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America by Marc Lee Raphael (Editor)
Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780231132220Publication Date: 2008-02-12Who's Who in Jewish History: After the Period of the Old Testament by Joan Comay; Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok
Call Number: DS115 .C6 2002 REFISBN: 0415260302Publication Date: 2001-11-01
Literature
Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work by S. Lillian Kremer (Editor)
Call Number: PN56.H55 H66 2003 REFISBN: 0415929857Publication Date: 2002-12-20Jewish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook by Ann R. Shapiro
Call Number: Z7963.J4 J48 1994 REFISBN: 0313284377Publication Date: 1994-09-12Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century by Sorrel Kerbel (Editor)
Call Number: PN842 .J48 2003 REFISBN: 157958313XPublication Date: 2003-02-14Modern Jewish Women Writers in America by Evelyn Avery
Call Number: ebook and PS153 .J4 M63 2007 Hampshire CollegeISBN: 1403978042Publication Date: 2007-05-15Twentieth-Century American-Jewish Fiction Writiers by Daniel Walden (Editor)
Call Number: ebook and PS153.J4 T84 1984 REFISBN: 0810317060Publication Date: 1984-05-25
Holocaust Encyclopedias and References
The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust by Donald L. Niewyk; Francis R. Nicosia
Call Number: ebook and D804.3 .N54 2000 REFISBN: 0231112009Publication Date: 2000-09-05The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust by Shmuel Spector (Editor); Geoffrey Wigoder (Editor); Elie Wiesel (Introduction by)
Call Number: DS135.E8 E45 2001 REFISBN: 0814793568Publication Date: 2001-07-01Encyclopedia of the Holocaust by Israel Gutman (Editor)
Call Number: D804.3 .E53 1990 REFISBN: 0028960904Publication Date: 1989-10-01The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich by Christian Zentner (Editor); Friedemann Bedurftig (Editor); Amy Hackett (Translator)
Call Number: DD256.5 .G76313 1991 REFISBN: 0028975006Publication Date: 1991-01-01The Holocaust Encyclopedia by Walter Laqueur (Editor); Judith Tydor Baumel
Call Number: D804.25 .H66 2001 REFISBN: 0300084323Publication Date: 2001-03-29
Sacred Texts
eResources
- Leon Levy Dead Sea Scroll Digital LibraryAccess to thousands of Dead Sea Scroll fragments preserved by The European Association of Jewish Studies.
- Online Responsa ProjectA collection of over 100,000 Halachic laws presented by the Bar Ilian University.
- SefariaExpansive online library of Jewish texts.
Reference Books
Tanakh=The Holy Scriptures: : The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text by Jewish Publication Society, Inc., Staff (Editor)
Call Number: BS895 .J4 1985ISBN: 0827602529Publication Date: 1985-11-01
Maps and Altases
- Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia of HistoryAn online exhibit of maps and depictions of Jerusalem from the Osher Map Library.
Atlas of the Middle East by U. S. National Geographic Society Staff
Call Number: G2205 .N34 2008 REFISBN: 9781426202216Publication Date: 2008-04-15The Macmillan Bible Atlas by Yohanan Aharoni; Michael Avi-Yonah; Anson F. Rainey; Ze'ev Safrai
Call Number: G2230 .A2 1993 Atlas CaseISBN: 0025006053Publication Date: 1993-03-17Historical Atlas of the Holocaust by U. S. Holocaust Memorial Council Staff; U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Staff
Call Number: D804.3.E29 H5 1996ISBN: 9780415521529Publication Date: 1995-11-01The Illustrated Atlas of Jerusalem by Dan Bahat; Chaim T. Rubinstein; Shelomo Ketko (Translator)
Call Number: G2239.J4 B34 1990 REFISBN: 0134516427Publication Date: 1990-10-01The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History by Martin Gilbert
Call Number: G1030 .G46 2010 REFISBN: 9780415558105Publication Date: 2010-02-23
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