Jewish Studies Ready Reference

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• ***** E-Ref - Has over 880 free electronic reference titles appropriate for undergraduates.



• dafyomi.org - Listen to Babylonian Talmud, Mishna, and Chumash lessons.



• Directory of Electronic Text Centers - Has links to virtual libraries in the humanities & social sciences.



• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Can search, browse over 2,300 links to scientific & scholarly journals in 17 categories (health sciences, etc.). Can search over 670 journals at the article level.



• e-journals.org - Has links to ejournal collections in over 30 categories.



• Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1st ed. - Networked CD-ROM version. Has 20,000 articles by leading experts on the Jewish experience (religion, history, culture, law & thought, scholarship & arts) & famous Jews. Includes 26 volumes of the original text, a media gallery (pictures, audio, maps, videos, slide shows, tables & charts), timeline. RESTRICTED to TC (NY) PCs.



• Encyclopedia of Narrative Themes in Jewish Literature - Includes Typology of Narrative Collections in Ashkenazi Manuscripts of the 13th & 14th centuries.



• Hebrew Authors - A General Directory - Has over 400 short biographies with photos, bibliographies.



• History Journals Guide, The - Has directories of 5,400 periodicals & 950 discussion lists; articles in 170 ejournals; 12,500 reviews in 100 sources. Has an enewsletter.



• History Journals Index - Has links to over 1,200 ejournals (not all free).



• Holocaust Encyclopedia - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Has over 460 articles. Includes topics to teach.



• Jewish Guide to the Internet, The - Includes the text of & updates to The Jewish Guide to the Internet (3rd ed.) by D. Romm.



• Jewish Studies Network Directory of Professionals - Has links to scholars.



• Jewish Virtual Library, The - Was JSOURCE (Jewish Student Online Research Center). An encyclopedia with 10,000 articles, 5,000 photos & maps, links in over 20 categories (history, Israel, women, the Holocaust, etc.). Has biographies (1,000 books & 1,000 Web sites); a glossary; The Holy Scriptures - The Tanakh; etc.



• Judaica Libraries and Archives on the Web - Has links to Judaica collections & the cultural institutions which house them; Jewish culture, history, literature.



• Judaism 101 - An encyclopedia with basic, intermediate, advanced information on Jewish ideas, people, places, things, words, deeds, times, life cycle, etc.), Has a site search.



• Michael Davidson Early Hebrew Printing Homepage, The - A guide to Jewish libraries & rare book collections online (manuscripts, incunabula, antiquities).



• Reference - Has links to libraries, museums, archives, dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations, etc.



• Who's Who in the History of Western Mysticism - A webliography with Jewish traditions.