Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Jewish Studies:
Selected Reference Works
The works listed on this page are excellent starting points for research in the area of Jewish Studies,
and can be used to find background information, definitions of terms or concepts, biographical
information, maps, and citations to additional resources. Most books can be found in the Reference
section (REF) of the holding library, except as indicated.
Handbooks and Companions
American Jewish Desk Reference.
American Jewish Historical Society, 1999.
ALEXANDER REF E184.35.A44
American Jewish Year Book.
1900-.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DANA STACKS E184.J5. Latest Edition REF.
Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture from the 18th Century to the Present.
1989.
ALEXANDER, DANA REF DS102.8.B46
Handbook of American-Jewish Literature: An Analytical Guide to Topics, Themes, and Sources.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DOUGLASS, KILMER STACKS; DANA REF PS153.J4H365
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies.
OUP, 2002.
ALEXANDER REF BM70.O95 2002
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Algemayne entsiklopedye [in Yiddish]
12 v., Dubnov-Fond, 1934-1966
ALEXANDER STACKS AE90.Y5A5, v1-12
Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict : Culture, History and Politics
Thomson Gale, 2005. 2v.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN REF JQ1830.A58F3813 2005
Encyclopaedia Judaica: Das Judentum in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
10v, [1928-1934].
ALEXANDER REF DS102.8.E5
Encyclopaedia Judaica.
2nd ed. 22v., 2007.
ALEXANDER REF
RU-ONLINE
Encyclopaedia Judaica.
16v., 1972.
CAMDEN, DANA, DOUGLASS REF and ALEXANDER FOLIO DS102.8.E496
CD-ROM Version. 1997.
ALEXANDER STACKS-COM DS102.8.E496
Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust.
3 v. NYU, 2001.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN REF DS135.E8E45 2001
Encyclopedia of Judaism.
3 v. Neusner et al., eds. Continuum, 1999.
ALEXANDER REF BM50.E63 1999
Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem.
2v., 1991.
ALEXANDER, DANA (v.2 only), KILMER REF DS119.7.N2928
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.
4v., Macmillan, 1990.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DANA, DOUGLASS REF D804.3.E53 1990
English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary; a Complete Lexicon and Work of Reference in All Departments of Knowledge.
Jewish Press, 1915.
ALEXANDER REF PJ5117.A2
Entsiklopedyah kelalit / hugah ve-hutkan li-defus 'a. y. Yosef ·Klozner. [in Hebrew]
6 v., Association Simon Dubnow, 1935-1937
ANNEX AE30.E51, v1-6
Ha-Entsiklopedyah ha-'ivrit : Kelalit, Yehudit ve-Eretz Yisraelit [in Hebrew]
33 v., Dubnov-Fond, 1949-1985
ANNEX AE30.E5, v1-5, 7-8, 10-11, 13 [Complete sets may be found in the libraries at Princeton, Columbia, and elsewhere]
Harduf's Transliterated English-Hebrew Dictionary.
10 v. Harduf Books, 1994-.
ALEXANDER REF
The Jewish Encyclopedia....
12v., Funk & Wagnalls, 1901-06..
ALEXANDER STACKS; DANA, DOUGLASS REF DS102.8.J65
Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.
Routledge, 1997. 2v.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DANA, DOUGLASS
REF.2.J49
Jewish Encyclopedia
Contains the full text, illustrations, and page images of the original 12-volume work,
also available in print in various Rutgers libraries.
Judaism 101
An online encyclopedia of Judaism, covering Jewish beliefs, people, places, things,
language, scripture, holidays, practices, and customs.
Medieval Jewish Civilization: An Encyclopedia.
2002.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN REF DS124.M386 2002
Metzler Lexikon der deutsch-jüdischen Literatur : jüdische Autorinnen und
Autoren deutscher Sprache von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart / herausgegeben von Andreas B. Kilcher.
Stuttgart : Metzler, 2000.
ALEXANDER REF PT169.M48 2000
New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia.
7th ed. Facts on File, 1992.
ALEXANDER REF DS102.8.S73
Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion.
1997.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN REF BM50.O94
Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary.
1996.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DOUGLASS REF PJ4833.J4J48
Reader's Guide to Judaism.
Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
ALEXANDER REF, STACKS BM50.R43 2000
Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German culture, 1096-1996.
Yale, 1997.
ALEXANDER REF and STACKS, CAMDEN REF DS135.G3Y35 1997
Yidishe folks-entsiklopedye; far yidishe religye, geshikhte, filozofye, literatur, biografye, lender-kibutsim un andere inyonim [in Yiddish]
2 v., Drukerey fun "Keneder Odler," 1943
ALEXANDER STACKS AG90.Y4P45 1943, v.1-2
Hebrew Scripture
The Dead Sea Scrolls. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert.
ALEXANDER FOLIO BM487.B3 1955a v.1-26.
The Dead Sea scrolls on microfiche [microform] : a comprehensive facsimile edition of the texts from the Judean Desert.
With inventory list and two companion volumes.
ALEXANDER M-FICH 441, 134 fiches +
ALEXANDER REF BM487.A05 1993 v.1-3
The Talmud : the Steinsaltz edition.
ALEXANDER FOLIO BM499.5.E4 1989 v.1-21
Atlases
Atlas of Medieval Jewish History.
1992.
ALEXANDER REF G1034.B413.
Atlas of Modern Jewish History.
Oxford U. Press, 1990.
ALEXANDER FOLIO; CAMDEN, DOUGLASS REF G1030.F6513
Historical Atlas of the Jewish People: From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present.
1992.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN REF DS117.J8513
Historical Atlas of the Holocaust.
United States Holocaust Museum, 1996.
ALEXANDER STACKS; CAMDEN REF G1797.21.E29H5
The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History.
1990.
DANA, DOUGLASS REF G1030.G48
Biographical Sources
American Jewish Biographies.
Facts on File, 1982.
ALEXANDER REF E184.J5A38
Dictionary of Jewish Biography.
by Geoffrey Wigoder, 1991.
ALEXANDER, DOUGLASS REF DS115.W49.
Jewish American Women Writers : A Bio-bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DOUGLASS REF PS153.J4J48 1994
Who's Who in Jewish History, After the Period of the Old Testament.
1974.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DOUGLASS REF DS115.C6
Bibliographies and Catalogs
Bibliography of Jewish Bibliographies. Shunami, Shlomo.
1969.
ALEXANDER REF Z7070.A1S5
Bibliography on Holocaust Literature.
1986.
ALEXANDER STACKS Z6374.H6E33; CAMDEN, DANA, DOUGLASS REF D804.3.E33
Dictionary Catalog of the Jewish Collection.
New York Public Library, 1960, 1975. 22v.
Now largely superceded by the
online catalog of the NYPL, but perhaps not for works in non-Roman scripts and older publications. Use the online catalog before visiting the
NYPL to determine if material must be ordered to the reading room from remote storage.
ALEXANDER REF Z6375.N6
Felix Posen Bibliography Project on Antisemitism
Search The Annotated Bibliography on Antisemitism and the Holocaust (1984- ); Antisemitism: The Retrospective
Bibliography (1969-1983), and the "'Jewish Question' in German-Speaking Countries, 1848-1933". From the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.
Guide to the Holdings of American Jewish Archives. James W. Clasper and M. Carolyn Dellenbach.
1979.
For more information on manuscript collections in the US, see
Other Library Catalogs and
especially ArchiveGrid.
ALEXANDER REF Z6373.U5H43 1979
Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900. by Robert Singerman.
1990. 2v.
ALEXANDER REF Z6373.D5S58
The Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays: An Annotated Bibliography. By Zachary M. Baker.
2004.
An Adobe PDF file.
A 233 p. online publication of the Library of Congress describing this unique manuscript collection.
ULI - The Israel Union Catalog
Often known by its telnet version, Aleph, this database identifies the collective holdings of
Israeli libraries. For libraries in the US, see
Other Library Catalogs.
Libraries and Archives
Guide to the YIVO Archives / compiled and edited by Fruma Mohrer and Marek Web.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1998. xxv, 400 p.
ALEXANDER REF *Z6375.Y59 1998
