Jewish Studies Bibliographies & Indexes

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• Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America - The text & suppl. to Jewish Women in America (NY: Routledge, 1997), v. 2. Has books, articles, collections, archival resources.



• Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt index (ANRW) - Can search over 680 citations of journal articles on Roman literature & society.



• BAESL: Bibliography of Archaeological Excavations in the Southern Levant - Can search over 15,000 citations of books, reports, journal articles back to the early 19th century.



• Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology, A - Can search over 135,000 citations of books & chapters, journal articles, films, etc.



• Bibliography of South African Jewry - Can browse citations of books & chapters, journal articles, etc., on Jews in the struggle against apartheid, personalities in the struggle, towns & villages in Eastern Europe.



• Bibliography of Works Pertaining to the Study of Targum - Can browse citations of books & articles in 6 categories (texts, dictionaries, grammars, critical analysis, anthropomophorism, rabbinic tradition).



• Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana - Has illustrations, descriptions of over 50 Jewish manuscripts, 1290-1985.



• Boundary news archive - Can search citations & abstracts to over 10,000 boundary-related journal & newspaper articles, reports, radio transcripts, etc., back to 1991.



• CineFiles - Can search citations of reviews, press kits, program notes, newspaper articles, etc., of over 25,000 films worldwide.



• Diotima's Bibliography - Can search, browse citations of book chapters, journal articles, dissertations, etc.



• Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism, The - Can search over 40,000 citations & abstracts of books & monographs, journal articles & collections, dissertations, theses back to 1933 via The Annotated Bibliography of Antisemitism (BAS), The Retrospective Bibliography of Antisemitism (RET), The Jewish Question in German-Speaking Countries, 1848-1914 (ANT).



• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - Can search citations of articles, book reviews, essays in books about women, sexuality, gender during the Middle Ages.



• Film Literature Index - Can search, browse citations of articles, reviews, book reviews in journals (many peer-reviewed) on film, television, video.



• getCITED - Can search over 30,600 citations from 3.3 million books, journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, reports, etc., from over 10,000 academic institutions. Requires free registration.



• Gnomon Online - Can search, browse over 3,000 citations of journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, on classical studies.



• Google Scholar - Can search scholarly literature (peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, etc.) in all broad areas of research from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, etc. Includes citations of older works & seminal papers not available online.



• Great Jewish Books - The List - Has citations of The 100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature.



• History On-Line - Directory. Can search, browse over 40,000 citations of books, journal articles; 3,300 citations of U.K. theses back to 1993, etc.; university lecturers & research; evaluated links.



• Holocaust Literature - A bibliography of fiction; poetry; drama; diaries, memoirs, journals, biographies.



• IngentaConnect - Can search, browse over 20 million citations & abstracts of over 29,600 books, journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, reports, etc. in 15 categories.



• Jewish Magic Bibliography - Can browse citations of books & journal articles. Covers biblical to modern times.



• JGS Jewish Community Books - From the 2000 International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Inc. (IAJGS) Yearbook.



• Latin American Jewish Studies 1991-96 - Can browse over 300 citations of books & journal articles.



• Latin American Jewish Studies 1997-98 - Can browse over 300 citations of books & journal articles.



• Literary Index - Can search 143,000 author names & 187,000 titles for references in Charles Scribner's Sons, St. James Press, Twayne Publishers imprints.



• Midrash Bibliography - Can search, browse citations of books, journal articles, proceedings, etc.



• RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - Can search citations of Hebrew, Yiddish, European language articles in thousands of journals, back to 1985.



• RHS Bibliography (Royal Historical Society) - Can search over 420,000 citations (some links to full-text) of books, articles in over 580 journals, etc. Covers Irish history.



• SIL Bibliography - Can search, browse 12,500 citations of books, journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, other academic papers on languages.



• SSSL Bibliography : A Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature - Can search, browse over 20,700 annotated citations of journal articles & books on 1,000 writers (novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, diarists) associated with the American South.



• Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists (TOCS-IN) - Can search 45,000 citations of articles in over 185 journals back to 1992.



• Viva Search - Can search, browse citations of articles in over 170 west European & American scholarly journals on women's history back to 1995.



• Yiddish Prints - Can search over 800 citations of texts printed in Hebrew in Europe from the mid-16th to early 20th century. Includes women's bibles, liturgy, legends, classical fiction, etc.