LibGuides: Jewish Studies: Literature

Jewish Literature : Resources in Omni

Jewish Literature (in Encyclopedia Judaica) by Daivid Biale
This article includes the following categories: (1) works written by Jews on Jewish themes in any language; (2) works of a literary character written by Jews in Hebrew or Yiddish or other recognized languages, whatever the theme; (3) literary works written by writers who were essentially Jewish writers, whatever the theme and whatever the language. It covers the subject up to the threshold of the modern period.
Oxford bibliographies. Jewish studies by Ed. David Biale
Oxford Bibliographies: Jewish Studies offers expert guidance through its carefully selected articles that break down subject areas into their component parts and annotations that summarize the main contribution of each citation. Articles on literature include Yiddish literature before 1800, Hellenistic Jewish literature, Holocaust literature, Latin American Jewish literature, rabbinic literature, and modern Hebrew-language literature.
Prooftexts (journal)
Prooftexts is a journal of Jewish literary studies. It brings together the study of modern Jewish literatures (in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages) with the literary study of the Jewish classical tradition as a whole. The most recent three years are not available due to publisher restrictions.

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
A literature reference database containing biographical, bibliographical, and critical content. Provides information on literary figures writing in such genres as fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. The information is compiled from Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. Covers all time periods.

Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews
A multimedia archive of ballads and other oral literature in Judeo-Spanish between 1957 and1993.
The Yiddish Book Center's Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library
The comprehensive collection includes 11,000 titles in fiction, memoir, poetry, theatre, short stories, science manuals, cookbooks, primers, and more.
Hebrew Books
Over 50,000 out-of-print classical religious Hebrew and Yiddish texts and periodicals. Freely available both for study and downloading. All searching is in Hebrew characters and a keyboard for input is provided. In Hebrew.
Project Ben-Yehuda
Digitized classics of Hebrew literature, poetry, prose, etc. Website and searching is in Hebrew.
Yiddish Literature Database. Goethe Universitat.
his database contains nearly 800 very valuable Yiddish books printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central and East Europe. It is outstanding because of its variety of Yiddish dialects and themes and the impressive number of extremely rare books including several unique editions.