Jewish Studies

A selective bibliography of articles in various fields of Jewish studies compiled mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library. Note that the catalog only lists references to the articles, not the articles themselves. Check OMNI to see if York University holds the resources listed in your search (they are often accessible online).

The definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought. Covers more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.

"...The material is based on a rich variety of original manuscript collections from the unique holdings of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York; we provide access to six major organisational collections and twenty-four collections of personal papers; all of which have been digitized in their entirety...." [Publisher]

JSTOR provides access to 57 journals and over 1500 monographs on and about Jewish Studies.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the 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 for many citations. Produced by the American Theological Library Association.

Includes Canadian and international academic journals, magazines, and newspapers in both English and French. All subjects are represented, with an emphasis on Canadiana. Many articles are full text. Coverage is from 1988 - present.

Covers world history, excluding North America, from 1450 to the present era. It indexes journals from around the world and also includes books and dissertations. Coverage is from 1954 - present.

Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts.

Disciplines covered: humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

Indexes over 2500 journals in theoretical and applied sociology. Some international and Canadian content. Articles, as well as unpublished materials, such as conference papers and theses, are indexed. Coverage is from 1986 to present

This full-text database provides the historical foreground to the ethnic, minority, and native-american press content in Ethnic NewsWatch, with materials dating from 1959–1989. It it provides full text coverage of 18 American Jewish newspapers (including the Forward) and 3 magazines.

A project of Bar Ilan University which now includes 100,000 Halachic laws over a period of a thousand years. The database interface itself is available in English, Hebrew and French. The but the responsa literature themselves are available only in their respective original language(s), predominately Hebrew and Aramaic.