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A database designed to help you start your research into Jewish history, religion, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, political science, and more. Contains recommendations for scholarship at all levels, whether encyclopedias and textbooks or journal articles and primary sources. Bibliographic essays and annotated citations on each topic. Peer-reviewed, selective, rather than exhaustive content chosen by experts in their disciplines.
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General Encyclopedias & Overviews
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Encyclopedia Judaica by Fred Skolnik; Michael Berenbaum
Publication Date: 2007Considered the standard reference work on Judaism. 2nd edition. E-book. -
Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture by Judith R. Baskin (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011E-book -
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies by Martin Goodman (Editor); Jeremy Cohen (Editor); David Sorkin (Editor)
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The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography by Dean Phillip Bell (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018E-book -
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A Short History of the Jews by Michael Brenner; Jeremiah Riemer (Translator)
Publication Date: 2010E-book -
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Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi; Harold Bloom (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2011-07-01Foundational historiographical work. E-book. -
Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present by Rebecca Lynn Winer (Editor); Federica Francesconi (Editor)
Publication Date: 2021E-book
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Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish WomenEntries on contemporary figures and topics, incorporating the latest scholarship, A project of the Jewish Women's Archive under the direction of an international editorial board of distinguished scholars.