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Encyclopaedia Judaica

Updated edition of this lauded work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. (Description by Gale)
Kotar Library Online

Database of Hebrew language Electronic Books.
Otzar HaHochma
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Jewish Studies

Regularly updated annotated bibliography addressing themes and topics in Jewish Studies.
The complexities of the field of Jewish Studies posed significant challenges to the formation of these bibliographies. For example, should the article on Modern Jewish Artists attempt to cover all artists of Jewish origin or only those whose art contains Jewish themes? Should an article on, say, food include traditional religious works or only modern scholarly literature? How should the articles balance the need to cover a whole subject while not overwhelming the reader with too many citations? In general, the solutions to these problems were dictated by Oxford Bibliographies Jewish Studies vision of its users who seek tightly focused, academically sound guidance for further reading and research.
RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies

Selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages.
Responsa Project: Database for Jewish Studies

Database of the Bible and rabbinical literature with commentaries. Texts in Hebrew. Covers over 400 volumes Bible-Talmud-commentaries & Halachic Responsa.

Database Directory for Rabbinic Literature
List of online databases for locating primary and secondary sources in Rabbinic and Hebrew literature.

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Welcome to the Jewish Studies Guide

Image adapted from the illustration in the prospectus for the Propylaen Facsimile edition of the 15th Century Darmstadt Pessach Haggadah. Ludwig Rosenberger Library of Judaica. The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

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Nonbinary Hebrew Project
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From website: "We are building a bigger tent for nonbinary Jews through a third-gender grammar systematics for Hebrew, guided by our Torah and Talmud that teach us to rejoice that which cannot be neatly categorized."
Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture
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From Europe and America to the Middle East, North Africa and other non-European Jewish settlement areas, the 'Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture' covers the recent history of the Jewish people from 1750 through the 1950s. Originally published in German as the "Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur" by J.B. Metzler Verlag (Stuttgart/Weimar) in 2011 the work includes approximately 800 entries that present the state of international research and reveal a complex portrait of Jewish life.
Schulman, Asya Vaisman, Jordan (Illustrator) Brown, and Mikhl Yashinsky. In Eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook. Amherst: Yiddish Book Center, 2020.

Talmud Yerushalmi
Searchable citation database of variant readings of Talmud Yerushalmi and scholarly publications.

Video Tutorial: Talmud Yerushalmi
Moshe Pinchuk demonstrates how to use the Citation Database.

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