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Use the Library Catalog to find books on a topic within Jewish Studies or Judaism. If you don't know a specific title, then start with a KEYWORD search. The following are some selected suggested Subject Headings you may choose to search under:
This guide lists items found mainly in the Reference Room of the Oviatt University Library at CSUN, unless otherwise indicated. Many more title are available in the library. Please check the catalog for others. You can search the catalog by author, title, subject, and keyword. Please ask for assistance at the Reference Desk. 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 Room (REF) of the Oviatt library, except as indicated.
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
Encyclopaedia Judaica: Das Judentum in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
10v, [1928-1934].
ALEXANDER REF DS102.8.E5
Encyclopaedia Judaica.
16v., 1972.
ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DANA, DOUGLASS REF DS102.8.E496
CD-ROM Version. 1997.
ALEXANDER REF DESK 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
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
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
Brisman, Shimeon. Jewish research literature. Cincinnati
: Hebrew Union College Press, 1977
REFRM NOCIRC Z6366 .B8 1977 v.1
Cutter, Charles. Jewish reference sources : a selective, annotated bibliographic guide. New York : Garland, 1982.REFRM NOCIRC Z6366 .C87 1982
Wertheimer, Jack. The Modern Jewish experience : a reader's guide.New
York : New York Univ.Press, 1993.
FLOOR2 DS115.95 .M63 1993
Encyclopedia, Handbooks, Dictionaries
Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jerusalem, [New York] Encyclopaedia
Judaica; Macmillan [c1971-72, 16 volumes.
REFRM NOCIRC DS102.8 .E496 v.1-16.
Abramson, Glenda. The Blackwell companion to Jewish culture : from the eighteenth century to the present. Oxford : Blackwell Reference, 1989. REFRM NOCIRC DS102.8 .B46 1989
Ausubel, Nathan.The book of Jewish knowledge; an encyclopedia of
Judaism and the Jewish people, covering all elements of Jewish life from Biblical
times to the present. New York, Crown [1964]
FLOOR2 NOCIRC BM50 .A8
Comay, Joan. Who's who in Jewish history; after the period of the Old Testament. [1st American ed.] New York, D. McKay Co. [1974] REFRM NOCIRC DS115 .C6 1974
Isaacs, Ronald H. The Jewish information source book : a dictionary and almanac. Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, c1993. REFRM NOCIRC BM50 .I78 1993
Isaacson, Ben. The international Jewish encyclopedia. [Englewood
Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1973]
This encyclopedia of Jews and Judaism throughout the world includes material
about youth groups and hostels in Israel. FLOOR2 NOCIRC DS102.8 .I8 1973
Roth, Cecil. The New standard Jewish encyclopedia. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1977. REFRM NOCIRC DS102.8 .S73 1977
Wigoder, Geoffrey. Encyclopedic dictionary of Judaica.
New York : Leon Amiel, c1974.
REFRM NOCIRC DS102.8 .W5
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
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
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
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 Archival
Resources.
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.
To see if CSUN owns a journal, Please check both of the following:
To assist you in finding the journal articles, the CSUN list of Electronic
Periodicals and bibliographic databases offer 
links. Periodical databases now provide full
text access possibilities where the database is limited to citation or abstract.
If CSUN does not own the journal title you need, you may request articles
using the Interlibrary Loan service at http://illiad.csun.edu/illiad/login/login.asp.
The following are journals assigned the subject heading Aging --periodicals which CSUN owns either in paper or electronically.
The following briefly list recommended Religious Studies databases available through Oviatt Library Resources listed on Databases A-Z:
Index to Jewish
Periodicals is the definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought.
This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles,
book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish
affairs. Titles include Contemporary Jewry, Holy Land Studies, Jewish
Culture & History, Journal of Palestine Studies, Studies in American Jewish
Literature, and many more. Most references are not found in standard
periodical literature guides. Index to Jewish Periodicals is intended
for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish
and Middle Eastern affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.
ATLA Religion Database. Scholarly index to over 1200 journals relating
to the study of religion. Index goes back to 1949.
RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish
Studies. A free website containing citations to scholarly articles on
Jewish Studies. Produced by the Jewish National and University Library in
Israel.
Academic Search Elite. A large interdisciplinary index and full text database of over 1700 full journals. Journal articles go back to the early 1990s to the present date.
America History and Life. The premier periodical index for research in U.S. history. It provides citation and abstract indexing for 2400 scholarly journals, review articles and dissertations covering the culture and history of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. It covers publication years 1950s to date. For world history since 1450, use Historical Abstracts.
L'Annee Philologique.
A database published by the Société Internationale de
Bibliographie Classique.
Article First Comprehensive "citation only" database to over 12,000 different scholarly and popular journals. A good database to cover a wide range of interdisciplinary social science and science journals.
Historical Abstracts. The premier index for searching modern world history. It provides citation and abstract indexing for over 2000 scholarly journals, books, book reviews, and Ph.D. dissertations covering world history (exclusive of the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Coverage: late 1950s to date. For U.S. and Canadian history use America History and Life.
Humanities Abstracts. 1984 to date. A citation and abstract index to over 400 scholarly periodicals in the humanities, including religious studies. From 1974-1984 use the Humanities Index in REF AI 3 I59. For the years 1906-1974 use the International Index in REF A13 I57.
JSTOR. A growing archive of full text core scholarly journals, some going back to the 1850s. Includes selected journals in the areas of: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, history, literature, philosophy, and sociology. Does not contain the latest three years of issues.
Lexis Nexis Academic. Provides full text searchable access to several thousand journals, newspapers, newsletters, newswires, and international publications. Coverage begins around the 1970s to the present. CSULB authentication required.
Philosopher's Index.
An international index with abstracts from more than 400 philosophy journals
and
books. Index lists articles from 1940 to present.
Project Muse. An online full text access to more than 160 scholarly journals, many in the humanities and social sciences.
Reader's Guide Retrospective. Covers popular magazines from 1890 through 1983. Useful to find contemporary accounts of any event in the 20th Century including religious topics.
A starter list of recommended databases and resources for Religious Studies can be found in MetaSearch. The category Religous Studies can be found in two (2) areas:MetaSearch and Find Database. Remember you will be able to customize MetaSearch, create your own lists of useful databases, electronic journals as well as save search strategies, create search alerts,and save retrieved records, but only when you Logon to Oviatt Library's MetaSearch with your 14 digit Barcode, which you had activated at the Library's Circulation Desk. Your 14 digit barcode is on your CSUN picture ID card. Logon also asks for your Last Name.
Internet Sacred Text Archive
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm
An internet source for texts and scriptures from various religious traditions
Jewish Encyclopedia.com
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp
This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia,
which was originally published between 1901-1906.
Use the following guides to correctly cite all of your information sources using the MLA format.
Modern Language Association (MLA) Style
Lynn Lampert is the Oviatt librarian who serves the CSUN Department of Jewish Studies. If you need help finding information for a research paper, she can offer suggestions. To make an appointment, email Lynn Lampert or phone 818-677-7104. Lynn Lampert's webpage is http://library.csun.edu/llampert/
Lynn Lampert created and maintains this webpage, so please report any problems to her. Links were last checked on 1/31/06.
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