Program in Education and Jewish Studies
New York University
Online Resources—Jewish Education
This listing identifies periodical databases, websites for Jewish research centers
and education associations, on-line library catalogues, and reference works.
A major bibliography of Jewish education is: Norman Drachler, A Bibliography of
Jewish Education in the United States. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996.
Google Books provides a limited preview of this bibliography at:
http://books.google.com/books?id=74WxERjUz0IC&dq=drachler+jewish+educ
ation&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
A. Periodical Databases
1. Index to Jewish Periodicals
http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:9451/ehost/search?vid=1&hid=116&sid=5e7e23
73-3dc8-4e74-8e1a-11ce60ad9f04%40sessionmgr109
A comprehensive, annually published guide to articles, book reviews, feature
stories, and other contents in English, appearing in more than 220 periodicals
devoted to Jewish affairs. Most references are not found in the standard
periodical literature guides available in many libraries.
The INDEX is a practical and concise reference tool for study of current Jewish
topics that appear in periodicals published in the United States, Canada,
England, Israel, South Africa, and Australia. Arranged by author and subject, the
INDEX is the only English language publication of its kind, intended for students
of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle
Eastern affairs. It is published annually in book form and on CD. Locations and
links to web sites for all periodical publishers are given, enabling the user to
obtain copies of articles and other entries. The INDEX is produced and published
by a staff with extensive training and experience in library science and Jewish
studies. All entries are carefully validated.
2. RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/rambi
Also accessible via:
http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:22924/F/?func=find-b0&local_base=rmb01&con_lng=eng
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is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in
the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of
periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European
languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University
Library, a world center for research on the Jewish people and Eretz Israel. The
main criterion for inclusion in the bibliography is that the article be based on
scientific research, or contain important information for such research. Since the
inception of this bibliographic project in 1966, the editorial board has striven to
include in it all of the important articles published throughout the world in the
field of Judaica. Therefore, it includes offprints of articles from journals or
collections not on order to the Library. Rambi also lists articles from secondary
sources.
In 1985, Rambi began listing articles electronically as one of the databases on the
ALEPH computer network of academic and research libraries in Israel, and in
2000, Rambi became accessible on the Internet via the WWW. In 2001, Rambi
published its 50th volume and also completed a retrospective conversion project
made possible by a grant from The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation. With the
availability of the entire corpus of Rambi's 50 volumes in each of Rambi's
computer databases, publication of the printed volumes of Rambi was
discontinued.
3. Index to Hebrew Periodicals - WWW version
English: http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:20999/~libnet/ihp/ihp-eng.htm
Hebrew:
http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:21380/F/?func=find-b0&local_base=ihpj&con_lng=heb
The database currently contains over 715,000 items, including: 1) The Index to
Hebrew Periodicals, 1977 to date; 2) Eretz Israel Data Base (Earlier and nonHebrew materials); 3) Tel-Hai Index to Israeli Newspapers, 1985-1992, 1994-1997
(selective); 4) Bar-Ilan University Index to Newspaper Literary Supplements,
1985-2005 (selective).
The WWW version of the Index to Hebrew Periodicals is compatible with the
Unicode standard. This means that special character alphabets (such as Hebrew),
which are outside the range of the standard western European-language
character sets, can be searched and displayed without the need to install special
Hebrew fonts. To work properly with Unicode, your browser must be able to
interpret UTF-8 characters and have a suitable Unicode font installed (see below).
Currently, the IHP web catalog supports only Microsoft's Internet Explorer®
browser, version 5 or higher.
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4. ERIC
http://www.eric.ed.gov
ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of
journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new
records added twice weekly. If available, links to full text are included.
Within the ERIC Collection, you will find records for: journal articles, books,
research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and other
education-related materials
You may also search special collections from the What Works Clearinghouse and
the Regional Educational Laboratories.
5. Education Index Retrospective (1929-current)
Subjects covered include Adult Education, Arts, Athletics, Comparative
Education, Competency-based Education, Computers in Education, Continuing
Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Government
Funding, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Library
Science, Literacy Standards, Multicultural/Ethnic Education, Parent-Teacher
Relations, Prayer in Public Schools, Preschool Education, Religious Education,
School Administration, Science and Mathematics, Secondary Education, Special
Education, Student Counseling, Teacher Education, Teacher Evaluation,
Teaching Methods, Vocational Education.
6. ATLA Religion Database
http://wwwca3.csa.com/ids70/quick_search.php?SID=uco3398gdh89ir3pojfmcg8ba6&tab_c
ollection_id=0
The ATLA Religion Database is an essential tool for the study of religion. It is the
premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all
fields of religion. The fact that many publishers solicit the inclusion of their
journals in the ATLA Religion Database is indicative of the stature it has achieved
in the community of religion scholars. The 1.6 million+ records in the ATLA
Religion Database include: 544,000+ journal article records, 227,000+ essay records
from 16,500+ multi-author works, 499,600+ book reviews of 257,500+ books,
1,641 journal titles, 518 of which are currently indexed, Languages: 55% English,
8% German, 5% French, 1% Spanish, 1% Italian, 30% other.
7. MALMAD
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http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:20999/~libnet/malmad.htm
MALMAD, the Israel Center for Digital Information Services, was set up in 1998
by the Israel Association of University Heads (Va’ad rasheha-universita’ot). Its
purpose is to serve as a joint framework (consortium for the acquisition, licensing
and operation of information services to all the Israeli universities. The basic
premise behind MALMAD is that modern information services can be provided
more efficiently and at a lower cost per-user by inter-university cooperation and
pooling of resources.
MALMAD currently provides access to fulltext services and bibliographic
databases, which are available to any workstation with a university internet
identification number and with a standard WWW browser.
B. Research Centers
8. North American Jewish Data Bank
http://www.jewishdatabank.org/default.asp
The North American Jewish Data Bank is the central repository of social scientific
studies of North American Jewry. The Data Bank’s primary functions are to (1)
acquire, archive, and disseminate quantitative data sets and reports, both
contemporary and historical and (2) encourage utilization of the archive through
training and provide information about methods for studying Jewish
communities. Our goal is to aid in understanding North American Jewish
communities, and to improve the quality and utilization of research conducted
about North American Jewry. The Data Bank includes:
• National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS) 1971, 1990, 2000-01
The most well known studies of the American Jewish community have been the National Jewish
Population Studies (NJPS) which were conducted in: 1971, 1990 and 2000-01. We have archived a
variety of different resources from the NJPS including data in SPSS format, study instruments
and reports.
Profile of American Jewry: Insights from the 1990 NJPS (PDF) was written by Sidney Goldstein
for the American Jewish Year Book and overviews some of the findings about American Jewry
from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey.
American Jewry 1970: A Demographic Profile (PDF) was written by Sidney Goldstein for the
American Jewish Year Book and overviews some of the findings about American Jewry from the
1971 National Jewish Population Survey.
• The U. S. Religious Landscape Survey
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life publication, “The U. S. Religious Landscape Survey,”
received considerable media attention in early 2008. The summary of the study as well as a link to
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the complete report is available from the study page.
• Young Jewish Adults in the United States Today
Young Jewish Adults in the United States Today. A Research Report for the American Jewish
Committee, 2006 (PDF). Jacob B. Ukeles, Ron Miller, and Pearl Beck of Ukeles Associates, Inc.
Report commissioned by the Research Department of the American Jewish Committee, which
noted in its summary that: “The 1.46 million American Jews between the ages of 18 and 39
represent the future of the American Jewish community. This study summarizes existing
knowledge about Gen X and Gen Y, and analyzes data from the National Jewish Population
Study, the annual American Jewish Committee Surveys of American Jewish Opinion, and Ukeles
Associates studies of local Jewish communities. Most important, it draws policy implications
about how to engage this group in Jewish life on their own terms.”
• Survey of Heritage and Religious Identification (HARI) 2001-02
The Survey of Heritage and Religious Identification provides an estimate of the Jewish
population of the United States and addresses methodological issues in the study of Jewish
communities. It was conducted from 2001 through 2002 by Drs. Gary Tobin and Sid Groeneman.
The data file, the questionnaire, and the report: Surveying the Jewish Population in the United
States are all now available via the Data Bank website.
• American Jewish Identity Survey (AJIS) 2000-01
The American Jewish Identity Survey was originally published in 2001 with the research
conducted by Egon Mayer, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. The study was reissued in 2003
by the Center for Cultural Judaism.
• National Survey of Religion and Ethnicity (NSRE) 2000
We also have data available from the National Survey of Religion and Ethnicity (NSRE) 2000,
which was conducted along with the National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01, but includes
data from non-Jewish households in the United States.
• National Survey of Religious Identity (NSRI) 1990
The National Survey of Religious Identity (NSRI) 1990 was conducted in conjunction with NJPS
1990 in order to review the religious and ethnic composition of the United States.
• American Jewish Committee Polls
The Data Bank currently archives results and/or data files from the American Jewish
Committee's annual survey of American Jewish Public Opinion including: 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. Additional surveys commissioned by the American Jewish
Committee on specific topics (such as Holocaust issues) can be accessed via the AJC Archives
9. Association for Religion Data Archives
http://www.thearda.com/
The ARDA Data Archive is a collection of surveys, polls, and other data
submitted by researchers and made available online by the ARDA.
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There are nearly 400 data files included in the ARDA collection. You can browse
files by category, alphabetically, view the newest additions, most popular files,
or search for a file. Once you select a file you can preview the results, read about
how the data were collected, review the survey questions asked, save selected
survey questions to your own file, and/or download the data file. File
Categories:
• International Surveys and Data (40): Cross-National Data (6), Multiple Nation Surveys (15),
Single Nation Surveys (19)
• U.S. Church Membership Data (20): County-Level Data (10), State-Level Data (10)
• U.S. Surveys (395)
•Surveys of the General Population
• National Surveys (85): News Polls (22), General Social Surveys (6), National Election
Studies (4), Pew Research Center (18), Baylor Religion Surveys (1), Other National
Surveys (34)
• Local/Regional Surveys (83): Middletown Data (26), Southern Focus Polls (11), Other
Local/Regional Surveys (46)
• Surveys of Denominations/Other Religious Groups
• Surveys of Members or Leaders (233): Adventist (6), Baptist (7), Catholic (46), Jewish (4),
including
link
to
Jewish
Day
School
Study,
1993
(http://www.thearda.com/Archive/Files/Descriptions/DAYSCH.asp), Lutheran (8),
Methodist (3), Mormon (2), Nazarene (8), Presbyterian (112), Unitarian-Universalist (1),
Other Groups (36)
•Surveys of Congregations/Other Religious Organizations (57): U.S. Congregational Life
Survey (26), Faith Communities Today (5), Other Surveys (26)
10. Da'at Center for Jewish Education
http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/chinuch/shapira/tohen-2.htm
Educational resources in English and Hebrew; includes TEN DA'AT - A Journal of
Jewish Education.
11. Mandell L. Berman Jewish Heritage Center for Research and Evaluation in
Jewish Education
http://www.jesna.org/j/reseval.asp
The Mandell L. Berman Jewish Heritage Center for Research and Evaluation in
Jewish Education was established in 1992 to honor Mandell (Bill) Berman, past
Honorary Chairman of JESNA and recipient of the 1992 Mesorah Award for
Outstanding Leadership in Jewish Education. As a leader of Jewish and civic
causes, Mr. Berman has worked both on the national level and locally in Detroit,
Michigan. Mr. Berman played a key role in JESNA’s formation in 1981, having
served as Chairman of its predecessor agency, AAJE for ten years. This center
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furthers Mr. Berman’s dedication to the use of research and evaluation to
improve the quality of Jewish education.
JESNA’s Berman Center serves as the central information resource for Jewish
educational research and evaluation. The Berman Center has three primary
goals: 1. Increasing and improving the use of evaluation to improve the quality
of Jewish educational and identity-building programs in North America; 2.
Raising the prominence of and support for the field of Jewish educational
research and evaluation; and 3. Achieving a greater understanding of factors
contributing to increases in Jewish identity, educational change, and
improvement.
12. Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora
http://www.lookstein.org/home.htm
The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education of the School of Education at Bar-Ilan
University is a service and research center deeply committed to enhancing the
quality of Jewish education in the Diaspora. The Center seeks to develop and
facilitate programs and projects that reflect, encourage, and foster ongoing
growth and learning for the Jewish educator. The Center's work is driven by: 1.
The rich educational and spiritual resources in Israel and the particular
experience of the Diaspora. 2. Educators from the broad range of the Jewish
community. 3. The world of hands-on practice and the world of academia.
13. Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University
http://cmjs.org/
Projects related to Jewish education include:
• Experiment in Congregational Education (ECE)
The Experiment in Congregational Education's RE-IMAGINE Project (REI) offers an elaborated
curriculum to facilitate the process of transforming religious education.
• Jewish Camping
In the summer of 2000, social psychologists Amy L. Sales and Leonard Saxe, along with a team of
colleagues, spent several days at each of 20 Jewish summer camps located throughout the United
States.
• Jewish Parents
To learn more about the needs of Jewish parents with very young children, and to investigate
community efforts to engage them.
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• JJF Jewish Education Website
The JJF Jewish Education website will provide researchers, funders, policy makers, and
educational leaders access to the Jim Joseph Foundation Jewish education database.
• Limmud
CMJS has conducted three years of research on Limmud NY, a 4-day retreat of Jewish learning
and culture developed and implemented primarily by volunteers. The purpose of this on-going
study is to understand those program features that draw individuals to Limmud NY, feelings
about the experience, and the influences of Limmud on future Jewish behaviors.
• National Jewish Population Survey
The National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS) 2000-01 is a socio-demographic survey of the
Jewish population in the United States sponsored by United Jewish Communities and the Jewish
federation system.
• Taglit-Birthright Israel
As of the end of 2007 more than 120,000 young Jewish adults from North America received the
gift of a trip to Israel. The sponsor, Taglit-Birthright Israel, developed this ten-day educational
program for those young adults who had not been to Israel on a prior educational program, but
who identify themselves as Jews. This large-scale experiment was conceived with the hope that
engagement with Israel would strengthen participants’ Jewish identities and counter the threat to
Jewish continuity posed by assimilation.
• UJA-Federation of New York Residential Camps
The UJA-Federation of New York residential camps are working with the Foundation for Jewish
Camping to establish vision, mission, and standards for Jewish camping. CMJS is conducting
research to bring needed data to this effort. The research entails a systematic, in-depth look at the
camps with a particular emphasis on the Jewish experiences they offer.
14. The Berman Jewish Policy Archive (New York University)
www.bjpa.org
The Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner is a new online resource
(joint project of Steven M. Cohen, the Revson Foundation, the Berman
Foundation, and NYU Wagner).
The archive offers free access to Jewish policy relevant materials. We cover a
broad range of topics, and currently emphasize issues of culture and identity. As
of today we offer more than 5,000 documents for download. Many have never
been digitized before or are not available anywhere else online. User registration
allows access to the bookshelf (save articles for later use) and bibliography
(generate customized lists of sources for personal reference or to share) tools.
15. Melton Centre (Hebrew University)
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http://melton.huji.ac.il/eng/about.php?cat=132
As part of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem the Melton Centre is a center of
learning open to the rich diversity of contemporary Jewish life.
• Studies in Jewish Education
http://melton.huji.ac.il/eng/ktav.php
16. Mandel Foundation
http://mandel.mli.org.il/MandelFoundation/JewishEducationContinuity/
• The Mandel Center for Jewish Education (with JCCA)
The Mandel Center for Jewish Education (MCJE) is a key Jewish and educational resource for the
JCCs of North America. MCJE works with JCCs and camps, their directors, and their Jewish
educational programs to enhance the quality of Jewish programming, learning, and experience.
MCJE creates and launches new initiatives to provide experiences that are both Jewish and
engaging.
• Mandel Teacher Educators Institute
Mandel Teacher Educators Institute is a program that develops a national cadre of “teachers of
teachers,” in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning in Jewish schools and other
educating institutions. The chief goal of Mandel Teacher Educators Institute is to develop leaders
who can galvanize significant change in teaching and learning through planning and
implementing improved and creative professional development for teachers in their institutions,
in their communities, and at the national level.
17. Melton Research Center for Jewish Education
http://www.jtsa.edu/Schools/William_Davidson_Graduate_School_of_Jewish_
Education/Melton_Research_Center_for_Jewish_Education.xml
The Melton Research Center for Jewish Education, established in 1960 under the
sponsorship of Samuel M. Melton of Columbus, Ohio, has the mandate of
improving the quality of Jewish education throughout North America. Melton
Research Center activities focus on design, testing, implementation, and
evaluation of new approaches in instructional methods, material, and
technology. Building on its foundation of excellence in curriculum development,
teacher support, and scholarship in Jewish Education, the Center has joined in
partnership with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Department of
Education to create Project Etgar, a new approach to instruction and learning in
the synagogue middle school, and MaToK, the Bible curriculum for the Solomon
Schechter Day Schools.
18. Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ)
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http://www.assj.org/
ASSJ is a cross-disciplinary international organization of individuals,
whose research concerns the Jewish people throughout the world.
• Contemporary Jewry
http://www.springer.com/humanities/religious+studies/journal/12397
Contemporary Jewry serves as the single source for the social scientific consideration of world
Jewry, its institutions, trends, character, and concerns. In its pages can be found work by leading
scholars and important new researchers from North America, Europe Australasia and Israel.
While much relevant scholarship about Jewry is published in general social science journals, as
well as more narrowly focused periodicals, no single scholarly journal focuses primarily on the
social scientific study of Jewry.
19. Center for Online Judaic Studies (COJS): Educational Resource Guides
http://www.cojs.org/AJH/
The Center for Online Judaic Studies (COJS) is a collaborative organization of
leading scholars, educators, and educational technology specialists, dedicated to
the advancement of Judaic studies, biblical studies, and Jewish education. COJS
seeks to inspire innovation in these fields through the use of digital imaging and
Internet technologies.
C. Association websites
20. Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education
The CAJE “Holiday Links” page is active:
http://www.caje.org/explore/holiday_links.html
21. Jewish Education North America (JESNA)
http://www.jesna.org/j/publications.asp#19
• Jewish Education News
http://caje.wikispaces.com/Jewish+Education+News
• Sosland Resource Center
• http://www.jesna.org/sosland/sosearch.asp
The Sosland Online Resource Center provides the latest articles, most up-to-date
websites, journals, research, and other resources pertaining to Jewish Education.
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22. Network for Research in Jewish Education
http://www.jesna.org/j/networks_research.asp
The Network for Research in Jewish Education was established to
encourage, support, and stimulate serious research in Jewish education; to
create a community of researchers in the field; and to advocate for
increased funding and for proper utilization of research in Jewish
education. The Network holds its annual conference in June.
• Journal of Jewish Education
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/ujjeauth.asp
The journal provides a unique interdisciplinary forum for considering the diverse research and
scholarly issues in Jewish education including curriculum and instruction, teacher preparation,
Jewish identity development, history and philosophy of Jewish education, and the linkage
between Jewish and general education.
23. RAVSAK
http://www.ravsak.org/
RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network is the international
center for the advancement and support of pluralistic Jewish day school
education. We promote academic excellence, maximal inclusion, Jewish diversity
and religious purposefulness. We believe that the future of the Jewish People is
enshrined in Klal Yisrael—the notion of Jewish Peoplehood. RAVSAK is
dedicated to empowering professionals to educate children and their families
from across the spectrum of Jewish life.
• HaYidion
http://www.ravsak.org/hayidion
HaYidion, RAVSAK's highly-acclaimed journal of Jewish education, explores topics of critical
interest to day school leaders, advocates, families and supporters. Each quarterly issue focuses on
an aspect of Jewish day school life, unpacking it from a wide variety of perspectives, offering
both theoretical frameworks and pragmatic approaches.
HaYidion is read by heads of schools, Judaic directors, division principals, admissions and finance
directors, development professionals, Federation and JCC directors, and lay leaders across North
America and beyond. Members of RAVSAK receive a number of copies of each issue each
quarter. Past issues are archived here at ravsak.org on a one-quarter delay.
24. Israel Association for Research in Jewish Education – IARJE
No website
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D. Other Sources:
25. Hebrew Language Teachers' Toolbox
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/hebrew/personal/naph/toolbox.shtml
This page links to tools which Hebrew language teachers might want to use in
working with their students, and provides various ideas and suggestions related
to the use of technology in the Hebrew classroom.
26. Snunit
http://www.snunit.k12.il/
Israel's main learning and teaching resource for children, parents, educators and
schools, provided by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Snunit offers access to
various databases, journals, portals, websites, lesson plans, teaching materials,
and teacher and student chat rooms. Also includes a subject navigator and fulltext searches.
27. DataJEM The Database of Jewish Educational Materials
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/DataJEMASP/Visitor/IntroPage.asp
DataJEM, the Database of Jewish Educational Materials, is a project of The
Pedagogic Center of the Education Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
Materials reviewed include books, films, computer software, games, websites,
posters, maps and journals in English or Hebrew.
Collection was concentrated on the following subject areas: Israel, Shabbat and
Hagim, Jewish Laws and Customs, Hebrew Language, Jewish History and the
Holocaust.
28. The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
(SICSA) The Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism.
http://har2.huji.ac.il:83/ALEPH/ENG/SAS/SAS/SAS/START
The Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism comprises an on-line
database accessible through Israel's university library network (ALEPH), and
printed bibliographies. The bibliography includes works published throughout
the world about anti-Semitism—books, dissertations, master's theses, and articles
from periodicals and collections. It does not include newspaper articles, reviews,
and works of fiction, nor does it cover antisemitic publications.
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The project has two parts: The ongoing annotated bibliography (from 1984 to the
present), and the retrospective bibliography, which lists books and articles,
published prior to 1984 (presently includes works published from 1965-1983).
The long-term goal is to compile a comprehensive listing of all works written
about antisemitism throughout history.
29. Meyer and Rose Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, Temple
University-Database of American Jewish Historical Repositories.
http://www.temple.edu/feinsteinctr/Resources/DatabaseOfArchives/Databas
e.htm
These repositories may be archives, museums, libraries, synagogues,
newspapers, or communal organizations. The Database is set up as a PDF file.
• Challenge And Change: History Of The Jews In America
http://www.temple.edu/challengeandchange/
How do you teach 350 years of American Jewish history to today's technologically-savvy middleschoolers? You use the Challenge And Change series which is a serious, historically accurate project
incorporating original source documents, links to the web, age-appropriate activities, a time line,
and help for the teacher. This web site is a companion to the series giving students and teachers
additional resources.
The history of the Jewish people in America is filled with courageous people, daring ideas, and
triumph over adversity. It is the story of a people who brought their history and their traditions,
language, culture, and ideas to a new land and participated in the bold experiment of creating a
country. Their Judaism affected almost every aspect of their lives in the new land, and the
environment shaped their lives as Jews, as they contributed to the growth and development of
America.
E. Library Catalogues.
A comprehensive list is available at: http://www.bibliomaven.com
30. Aleph: The Jewish Theological Seminary library catalogue
http://www.jtsa.edu/x166.xml
The JTS on-line digital collections are at: http://sylvester.jtsa.edu
31. Hebrew Union College Library Catalogue
http://www.huc.edu/libraries/
32. Yeshiva University Library Catalogue
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http://www.yu.edu/libraries/index.aspx
33. Spertus Institute, Chicago, Illinois
http://helen.spertus.edu/F?RN=227799708.
The on-line digital collection includes a full run of the Chicago Jewish Sentinel.
34. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California
http://www.magnes.org/mco.htm
35. Hebrew College, Newton Center, Massachusetts
http://www.hebrewcollege.edu/hc-library
36. New York Public Library-Dorot Jewish Division
http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/jewish-division
The Dorot Jewish Division is responsible for administering, developing and
promoting the exploitation of one of the world’s great collections of Hebraica
and Judaica. Reference and research services are available in a dedicated Jewish
studies reading room on the first floor of the Library’s landmark Stephen A.
Schwarzman Building.
Primary source materials are especially rich in the following areas: Jews in the
United States, especially in New York in the age of immigration; Yiddish theater;
Jews in the land of Israel, through 1948; Jews in early modern Europe, especially
Jewish-Gentile relations; Christian Hebraism; antisemitism; and world Jewish
newspapers and periodicals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
F. Reference Works.
37. American Jewish Yearbook (pdfs)
http://www.ajcarchives.org/main.php?GroupingId=40
38. Encyclopedia of American Religions
http://galenet.gale.com/a/acp/netacgi/nphbrs?d=GRRS&s1=0.GRRD.&s2=jewish&l=50&pg2=ALL&Sect1=EA_STATE_THE
SAURUS&p=1&u=%2Fa%2Facp%2Fdb%2Fgrr%2Fgrr-nohits.html&r=0&f=S
Part of Gale Ready Reference Shelf: Includes references related to Jews and
Judaism.
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39. Jewish Encyclopedia.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com
This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia,
which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia,
which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles
and illustrations.
This online version contains the unedited contents of the original encyclopedia.
Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a
significant portion of modern Jewish History (e.g., the creation of Israel, the
Holocaust, etc.). However, it does contain an incredible amount of information
that is remarkably relevant today.
40. Routledge Reference Resources Online: Religion
http://www.reference.routledge.com/subscriber/uid=52/suite?id=TANDFRO
RELIGION&authstatuscode=202
41. Rav-Milim Dictionary
http://ezproxy.hebrewcollege.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.ravmilim.co.il
The Rav-Milim Dictionary website is a comprehensive Hebrew-English
Dictionary. Simply type in a Hebrew word (using a screen keyboard) in any
form, and an “array of linguistic information is displayed,” including: all forms
of the Hebrew word with English translations, all the synonyms and "a complete
list of idioms and phrases emanating from each dictionary entry" (with English
translations), a listing of rhyming words and a complete grammatical analysis
(“part of speech, gender, tenses, conjugations, root, and more”). For a Hebrew
translation, simply type in the English word.
42. Google Translator: Translates text between Hebrew and English.
http://translate.google.com/#auto|fr|
43. Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of
Jewish Women in America (2008)
http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/jewwom/jwmain.html
44. Historical Jewish Press
http://www.jpress.org.il/view-english.asp
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Most newspapers on this site are in French or Hebrew. The Palestine Post (19321950) is in English.
45. YIVO Encyclopedia
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org
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