Columbia University's collection of Jewish Studies Internet Resources is an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Jewish Studies (in the broadest sense) available on the global Internet. These electronic resources are organized primarily by subject. All materials are arranged to encourage an awareness of authorship, type of information, and subject. The scope of the collection is research-oriented, but it also provides access to other websites with different or broader missions.

Among the many selected resources on these pages are:

• Online catalogs of the world's top libraries with large Jewish Studies collections
• Bibliographies from Columbia University Libraries and other research institutions around the world
• Electronic journals and news archives that specialize in Jewish Studies
• Extensive information on Israel and Jewish Studies
  
• Information on major Jewish organizations and activities
• Links to other Jewish Studies websites

This website collection is currently undergoing major construction. Please feel free to contact the Jewish Studies Librarian with any suggestions and questions regarding the content on these pages.

Below are resources that will be useful to research in any field of Jewish Studies. (Note: resources with a key next to them indicate restricted sites that are only available to scholars with a Columbia UNI and password)

• RAMBI: The Index to Articles in Jewish Studies

Maintained by The Natinal Library of Israel, this is a searchable catalog for articles (from journals, book chapters, etc.) in all fields of Jewish Studies.  Note that the catalog only lists references to the articles, not the articles themselves.  Check CLIO to see if Columbia holds the resources listed in your search (they are often accessible online).

• Encyclopedia Judaica                        

Also available in print, EJ is the essential encyclopedia for all subjects in Jewish Studies.  It lists brief (and sometimes not-so-brief) entries for subjects across the Jewish studies spectrum.                          

• Index to Jewish Periodicals      

Indexing to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories covering Jewish affairs.

• ATLA Religion Database

This database combines an index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. Coverage begins in 1949 with some earlier indexing. Full text is available for many citations in this database.

• JSTOR

JSTOR provides images for back issues of many important journals in Jewish Studies, including Jewish Quarterly Review, AJL Review, Jewish Social Studies, Proofnexts and Nashim.  JSTOR is also beginning to include Hebrew journals, such as Tarbits and Tsiyon.
Note: Although there is currently a pilot to test current journal access, most JSTOR journals are NOT available to the present day.  For current journal access, see Project Muse:

• Project Muse

Full-text articles from more than 200 scholarly journals in history and the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences. Disciplines covered include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. A brief bibliographic description of each title is given. Searches can be conducted across the full text of all journals in the database.

• Heidi's Reference Column

Heidi Lerner, Hebraica/Judaica cataloguer at Stanford University Libraries, writes "Perspectives on Technology," a column on technology-based resources related to teaching and research in Jewish studies, for AJS's biannually-published magazine, AJS Perspectives.  Past columns are available online, and include topics such as Jewish Economics, Jewish Linguistics, Jewish Treasures, Jewish Political Studies, and many other topics.

• Internet Jewish History Sourcebook

Fordham University's immense corpus of links to full-text primary sources.  Includes texts from the ancient to the modern period.

• Jewish History Resource Center - Resource Index

The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has created over 5000 links to websites in 25 categories dealing with Jewish History.

• Academic Guide to Jewish History

Organized by Jenny Mendelsohn at the University of Toronto, this guide attempts to compile all major resources in Jewish History, both in print and online.  Note that online resources listed as available at the University of Toronto need to be searched in CLIO for Find Databases in order to get access from Columbia.

• COJS: Center for Online Judaic Studies

The COJS is an online repository of rich digital images depicting primary resources from throughout Jewish history.  "History 101" is the primary gateway to these images.

• Historical Jewish Press

This site contains a collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods. The site displays digital versions of each newspaper, making it possible to view the papers in their original layout. Full-text search is also available for all content published over the course of each newspaper’s publication.  More content is continuously being added. 

Languages included are: Hebrew, Yiddish, French, Hungarian, English

• History of the Jews in the Modern World

Full-text of Howard M. Sachar's standard textbook on the history of the Jews in the Modern period.

• The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000

Full-text of Hasia Dinar's comprehensive history of American Jewry

• The Felix Posen Bibliographical 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 antisemitism -- 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.  Click "Search the Bibliography of Antisemitism" to access the database.
  

• Vidal Sassoon Intl. Center for the Study of Antisemitism
  Conducts research on the multi-faceted phenomenon of antisemitism.  Aims to increase public awareness through the dissemination of knowledge about potential threats and extreme political trends.

• Visual History Archive of the Shoah Foundation
  Contains nearly 52,000 video testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust taped in 56 countries and in 32 languages between 1994 and 1999. Most testimonies have been indexed for keywords at one-minute segments. 
  

Note: Because the testimonies are uploaded to a Columbia server, testimonies can only be viewed from a Columbia-networked computer. 

• United State Holocaust Memorial Museum
  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.

A partial bibliography, by subject, of Holocaust related resources compiled by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum can be found here

• Yad Vashem
  Established in 1953 as the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust.

• Dictionary of the Holocaust: Biography, Geography, and Terminology

Dictionary of key terms (people, places, etc.) used in Holocaust studies

• Holocaust Encyclopedia 

Produced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, this is a comprehensive encyclopedia of the Holocaust.

• Holocaust Literature: an Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work

This very comprehensive two-volume work includes essays (some as long as 8000 words) on all notable figures in Holocaust literature.  Literature in all languages is represented.

• Holocaust History Project
  A free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.

• Jewish Museum of Deportation and resistance (Mechelen, Belgium)
  Situated in the building which was previously known as the Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen, Belgium, where, in 1942, the Nazis established SS-Sammellager Mecheln (SS-Collection Camp Mechelen), the museum covers the history of the Jews in Belgium.

• Teaching the Holocaust
  by Chaya Ostrower, Tova Perlmutter; trans. Yafa Kleiner-Brandwein
      Uses stamps, pictures, texts, and paintings by children in the Holocaust to create a teaching unit dealing with the Holocaust.

• Hebrew and Yiddish transliteration tables
  Princeton University Library

• Gesenius' Hebrew grammar (1910 ed.)

Full-text of the comprehensive Biblical Hebrew grammar (note that while the 1910 edition is limited to Columbia users, earlier editions are available for the public via HathiTrust.  Check CLIO for full list of digitized editions).

• Modern Hebrew Abbreviations (Hebrew site)
  

• Hebrew-Arabic & Arabic-Hebrew Dictionary

• Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
  Founded in 1962 with the aim of acquainting foreign readers with the best of modern Hebrew literature

• A General Directory of Hebrew Authors

• Lexicon of Modern Hebrew Literature
  This extensive lexicon, compiled by Joseph Galron-Goldschlager, includes a description and bibliography for nearly every important author of Hebrew literature. (In Hebrew)
  

• Hebrew Literature
  A concise overview of the field of modern Hebrew literature, presented in English by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

• Bama Hadasha: The New Stage
  This Hebrew site is a forum for authors to present their literature.  Users can vote and comment on the works.  It is a good resource for new and cutting edge forms of literature.

• Yiddish Online Resources

Extensive class-related resources from the Language Resource Center at Columbia University

• Colleges & Universities that teach Yiddish
  

Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, Univ. of Minnesota.
Search by Language in the LCTL Database for "Yiddish".

• LCAAJ Collection of Spoken Yiddish
  

          Held at the Columbia University Libraries

• Yiddishland: Countries, Cities, Towns, Rivers

Published by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, this online Gazetteer presents an extensive listing of the many cities, towns, rivers, and countries in Eastern Europe, along with various names that may     have been used throughout history.  A very good resource for identifying obscure places.

• Understanding Yiddish Infomation Processing
  By Mark H. David

• Vilnius Yiddish Institute

• Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish: a European Heritage
  By Nathan Weinstock
  Online book.

• Yugntruf

"Call to Youth": a worldwide organization of Yiddish-speaking and Yiddish-learning young adults.

• I. L. Peretz Bibliography

By Iosef Vaisman.

• Isaac Bashevis Singer

By Ona Wu, Almaz Enterprises

• Mendele Mokher Sforim Bibliography

By Iosef Vaisman

• Sholom Aleichem Bibliography

By Iosef Vaisman

• Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia

This comprehensive encyclopedia is actively maintained and updated by the Jewish Women's Archive (www.jwa.org)

• Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America
  

By Phyllis Holman Weisbard
Women's Studies Librarian's Office, University of Wisconsin, Madison
This bibliography concentrates on books, chapters in anthologies, and periodical articles on the collective history of American Jewish women and archival resources on individuals and women's organizations.

• Jewish Women and Music
  

Edited by Judith Pinnolis
    A website dedicated to Jewish women's contributions in music.

• Women in Judaism: an interdisciplinary journal.
  

An academic, refereed journal published exclusively on the Internet, and devoted to scholarly debate on gender-related issues in Judaism.

While Yiddish and Hebrew are probably the best-known Jewish languagues today, many other vernaculars existed (and continue to exist throughout Jewish history).  Some resources for studying these are described below:

• Jewish Language Resource Website

This site, maintained by a global team of experts in their respective fields, includes a map of 18 Jewish languages, as well as descriptions and resources for their use and study.

• The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project

The CAL is a text base of the Aramaic texts in all dialects from the earliest (9^th Century BCE) through the 13^th Century CE, currently with a database of approximately 2.5 million lexically parsed words, and an associated set of electronic tools for analyzing and manipulating the data, whose ultimate goal is the creation of a complete lexicon of the language.

Note: It is a work in progress, not a completed dictionary. Accordingly, any citations for scholarly purposes should include the date when the data was found.

• The Bar Ilan Responsa Project

A collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew, including the Bible, the Talmud, and all major works of responsa through the 20th century, which embody thousands of years of Jewish learning and rabbinic case-law rulings, all in fully-searchable Hebrew.  This database also includes the Entsiḳlopedyah Talmudit

• The New Encyclopedia of Judaism

This encyclopedia encompasses everything there is to know about all forms of the Jewish religion.

• Mafteaḥ le-maʾamarim be-ʻIvrit/The Index to Hebrew Periodicals

Covers articles from approximately 1060 Hebrew periodicals and 185 monographs dealing with the land of Israel.

• Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East and North Africa