Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Jewish Studies:
Indexes and Journals
Indexes
The following is a list of print and electronic indexes that can be used to locate articles in Jewish
Studies. With the exception of the free index RAMBI, indexes are available online only to current
Rutgers students, faculty, and staff, or to everyone within Rutgers University Libraries buildings. To
determine whether a particular article is held by one of the Rutgers Libraries, go to
IRIS and search
for the title of the source publication (book or journal title.) For full-text indexes, as indicated
below, the full article may be available electronically. Other relevant indexes can be accessed on the
Indexes and Databases page.
Academic Search Premier.
An interdisciplinary, full-text database of 4,700 scholarly publications as well as abstracts and
indexing for over 8,100 scholarly journals with some dating back to 1984. A valuable and large
collection of peer-reviewed full text journals for nearly all academic areas of study.
America: History and Life.
Provides over 400,000 citations and abstracts for articles and book reviews on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present published since 1964.
Historical Abstracts.
Indexes more than 2000 journals and also dissertations on the history of the world outside North America, from 1450 to the present, that have been published since 1955.
Humanities Full Text.
Index Islamicus on CD-ROM: A Bibliography of Publications on Islam and the Muslim World Since 1906.
Citations to over 172,000 articles and 24,000 books in European languages and Arabic. Permanently
installed on the CD-ROM workstation in ALEX REF.
Index to Articles relative to Jewish History and Literature Published
in Periodicals, from 1665 to 1900..
Primarily an author index, but with a shorter subject index.
ALEXANDER STACKS, DOUGLASS REF Z6366.S413
Index to Jewish Periodicals.
Indexes Anglo-American Jewish periodicals, popular and scholarly. 1963-
ALEXANDER REF Z6367.I5
Periodical Contents Index (PCI).
Indexes over 4500 journals ranging well back into the nineteenth century, providing full text to over 300 of them. Indexes 62 Jewish Studies journals.
RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies.
A selective bibliography of publications in the various fields of Jewish Studies and in the study of Eretz Israel, from 1966 to the present. Unicode Web interface displays Hebrew characters.
(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. Covers publications from 1949 to the present.
Electronic Journals
Rutgers Restricted Access
The following Electronic Journals are currently subscribed to by Rutgers
University Libraries, and can be accessed only by Rutgers University students,
faculty, and staff, or from an onsite computer terminal.
The number of journals available online is growing rapidly, especially within the EBSCO Academic Search Premier and the PCI databases.
Additional holdings
can be determined in IRIS, by limiting a keyword, title, periodical title,
or subject searches to the library RU-ONLINE, or by browsing the
Electronic Journal Lists.
American Jewish History.
The official publication of the American Jewish Historical Society.
Focuses on every aspect of the American Jewish experience.
Online: Project Muse: 1893.
Online: PCI: 1893-1995.
American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures.
Online: JSTOR: 1895-1941.
Archaeology Odyssey.
Online: BAS Online: 1998--.
Bible Review.
Online: BAS Online: 1985--.
Biblical Archaeology Review.
Online: BAS Online: 1975--.
Commentary
Journal of significant thought and opinion on contemporary Jewish issues.
Online: EBSCO: 1990-
Online: PCI: 1945.
Estudios sephardies.
Online: PCI: 1978-79.
Hebraica
Online: JSTOR: 1884-1895.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Online: Project Muse: 2003--
Online: PCI: 1986-95,
Israel Studies
Multidisciplinary scholarship on Israeli history, politics, society, and culture.
Online: EBSCO: 1996-
Online: Project Muse: 1999-
Jewish Bible Quarterly.
Online: EBSCO: 2004--.
Jewish History.
Online: EBSCO: 2004--.
Online: Springerlink. 2000--.
Jewish Quarterly Review.
Online: EBSCO: 2004--.
Online: Project Muse: 2002--.
Jewish Social Studies.
Explores different approaches to Jewish history and critical inquiry into its concepts and
theoretical stances.
Online: EBSCO: 1996-
Online: Project Muse: 1999-
Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period.
Online: PCI: 1970-95,
Online: EBSCO: 1998--
Journal of Jewish Communal Service.
Online: EBSCO: 2000--.
Journal of Near Eastern Studies.
Online: JSTOR: 1942-2002.
Journal of Palestine Studies.
Online: JSTOR: 1971-2001.
The Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy.
Online: EBSCO: 1997-2003.
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.
Online: EBSCO: 2002--.
Journal of Semitic Studies.
Online: PCI: 1956-95.
Judaism.
A quarterly journal of Jewish life and thought.
Online: EBSCO: 1975--.
Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue.
Online: EBSCO: 1999--
Modern Judaism.
An interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of the modern Jewish experience since
the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment.
Online: Project Muse: 1996--.
Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues.
Online: Project Muse: 2003--
Online: EBSCO: 2004--.
Prooftexts.
Covers the study of Jewish literature, in its many guises and periods.
Online: EBSCO
Online: Project Muse: 2000-
Sefarad.
Online: PCI: 1941-1995
Tikkun.
A bi-monthly Jewish critique of politics, culture, and society.
Online: EBSCO: 2000--.
In addition, there are 18 Jewish newspapers in the
Ethnic Newswatch database.
Free Electronic Journals
Access to the following electronic journals is free and unrestricted.
Compact Memory: Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika.
Growing collection of digitized German language serials, currently ca. over 100 titles.
American Jewish Archives.
Online: 2000--.
Eras.
Online: 2001--.
Gesher: The Official Journal of the Council of Christians and Jews.
Online: 1996--.
Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal.
Online: 2002--
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
Online: 1996--.
Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal.
Online: 1996--.
Snunit
(Online Journals in Hebrew)
Links to fourteen freely available online journals; requires Hebrew fonts!
Journals in Print
The libraries also hold many volumes of the print edition of the journals listed above and
selected volumes of other non-current print journals. In some cases we even have current
subscriptions to the print edition, although if online access is stable and reliable we seek to
cancel redundant print subscription; see IRIS for holdings. A shrinking number of scholarly and
opinion journals in the field are available only in print format. A list of the most important
ones held in Alexander Library Current Periodicals follows.
- Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation
- Commentary
- Israel Studies Forum
- Jewish Journal of Sociology
- Jewish Quarterly Review
- Journal of Jewish Communal Service
- Judaism
- Midstream
- Nashim
- Studies in American Jewish Literature
