Jewish Studies Ready Reference

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



• Bar Ilan Responsa 14 - Networked CD-ROM version. Search over 68,000 works from the Responsa Literature; the Bible, Talmud & principal commentaries; works about Jewish law & customs; major codes of Jewish law (Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Shulchan Aruch with principal commentaries, etc.); midrashim, Zohar. Use the Bar Ilan University Responsa for the titles listed here. RESTRICTED to TC (NY) PCs.



• Bar Ilan University Responsa - Online version. Search over 68,000 works from Responsa Literature; the Bible, Talmud & principal commentaries; works about Jewish law & customs; major codes of Jewish law (Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Shulchan Aruch with principal commentaries, etc.); midrashim, Zohar. Use the Bar Ilan Responsa 14 to read the Encyclopedia Talmudit. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, LIJ.



• 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. Includes History Journals Guide, The; etc..



• 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.



• Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. - Search 21,000 articles on Jewish life, culture, history, religion by Israeli, American, European subject specialists. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, Thmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



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



• FreeFullText.com - Has links to over 7,000 scholarly periodicals with some or all articles for free. Some require free registration.



• 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 - History News Service (HNS). 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).



• NoodleTools - Generate, edit, publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with rules of the current MLA Handbook & APA Publication Manual. For detail on using this program, read our Creating Your Bibliography with NoodleTools. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South). WHEN YOU LOG IN THE FIRST TIME, CREATE YOUR OWN ACCOUNT. WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOG OUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION. FACULTY - Create a Class Name for your students so they can share their citation/reference lists with you for review & comment.



• Oxford Reference Online (premier collection) - Search & browse over 100 ebooks in 24 categories. Covers the English language, history, literature, physical sciences & mathematics, politics & social sciences, religion & philosophy, science, etc.). Includes bilingual dictionaries. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY). WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOG OUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION.



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



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