This guide was designed by Rachael Cathcart to help identify resources on Holocaust and Judaic Studies and related topics in the FAU Boca Raton Library. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/Databases or Articles. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the EZ Proxy link and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number. For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785), e-mail lyref@fau.edu, or Instant Messaging (AIM: FAUReference).


SUBJECT HEADINGS

When using the Library Catalog to look for books and other materials, you may want to do a "Subject" search and use the following Library of Congress subject headings. This is not a complete list. (Note: Use two dashes (located next to the zero/0 on the keyboard) to separate subdivisions from headings.)

ANTISEMITISM--HISTORY JEWISH FAMILIES--UNITED STATES JEWS--IDENTITY
HASIDISM--HISTORY JEWS--CULTURAL ASSIMILATION JEWS--MIGRATIONS
HEBREW LANGUAGE JEWS--DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS JEWS--PERSECUTIONS--GERMANY
HOLOCAUST--JEWISH 1939 1945 JEWS--DIETARY LAWS JEWS--SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
HOLOCAUST--REVISIONISM JEWS--DIASPORA JEWS--UNITED STATES
HOLOCAUST--SURVIVORS JEWS--EMANCIPATION JUDAISM--CUSTOMS AND PRACTICES
HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS JEWS--FLORIDA TALMUD
ISRAEL JEWS--HISTORY YIDDISH LANGUAGE
JERUSALEM JEWS--ISRAEL ZIONISM--HISTORY
For further assistance in determining subject terms visit the Reference Desk or consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes, located near the Reference Desk.

 

FINDING JUDAICA IN LIBRARY

GENERAL COLLECTION:
Feel free to walk through the stacks; sometimes the best books are found by browsing. These call numbers provide the general location of materials related to Holocaust and Judaic Studies

Library of Congress Classification

JUDAISM BM
HEBREW BL 1650
OLD TESTAMENT BS 701 - 1830
JEWISH HISTORY DS 101 - 151
HEBREW AND YIDDISH LITERATURE PJ 4501 - 5192
(Books that have call numbers beginning with B and D are located on the 2nd floor, west wing of the library; Books that have call numbers beginning with PJ are on the 3rd floor, west wing)

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

 
Alternative Press Index (AltPressIndex)
Indexes 300 alternative, radical, and left magazines, periodicals, and newspapers. Articles cover cultural, economic, political, and social change.

America: History and Life
Over 400,000 bibliographic entries, including journal citations from over 2000 journals, on the history of the United States and Canada. Coverage from prehistory to present.

American Periodical Series (APS) Online
Access to over 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1900; includes women's magazines such as The Ladies' Home Journal, Ladies Afternoon Visitor, and Ladies Weekly Museum.

Arts and Humanities
Indexes articles from over 1,300 arts and humanities journals.

ATLA Religion Database
The ATLA Religion Database is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion.

Electronic Collections Online
Electronic abstracts and full-text of nearly 3000 journals fully browsable by title. Covers humanities and social sciences from 1995 to present.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Features articles to ethnic, minority, and native magazines, journals, and newspapers.

Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.

Expanded Academic Index (FAU Electronic Collection)
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.

Humanities Abstracts
Subject areas include archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.

  Index to Jewish Periodicals The definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Titles include Contemporary Jewry, Holy Land Studies, Jewish Culture & History, Journal of Palestine Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and many more. Most references are not found in standard periodical literature guides. Index to Jewish Periodicals is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.

Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
Information from the world's largest archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences administered by the Institute for Social Resarch at the University of Michigan.

In the First Person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives
In the First Person is a new library index that lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases.  The search returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available. Every imaginable topic, historical event, and person is covered, from World War I and II to popular culture, music to medicine, Hitler to John Wayne, gay rights to September 11th. And it will be updated quarterly. By the end of 2005, the index will point to 350,000 pages of full text and 3,500 collections-more than a million pages of editorially selected materials spanning 400 years.

JSTOR
Digital images of complete runs of back issues of selective journals in a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage varies; 19th century to 1995.

Judaica Music Rescue Project
The Rescue Project began in the summer of 2002 with a collection of about 1800 vintage 78-rpm recordings of Jewish music. Through the thoughtful donations of both individuals and organizations, such as the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA, the collection grew to almost 6000 records in less than a year.

Kluwer
Kluwer Online is electronic access to the journals published by Kluwer which incorporates the imprints of Kluwer Academic Publishers. Includes over 600 journals along with searching capabilities, abstracts, and full-text back to 1987.

MLA International Bibliography
The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The database provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.

Oxford University Press
Provides online access to approximately 130 multidisciplinary journals published by Oxford University Press, with a contents alerting service. Subject areas include: area studies, art and visual culture, biochemistry and molecular biology, biology and ecology, classics, communication studies, computing and engineering, economics and business, genetics, geoscience, health sciences, history, language studies, law, literary studies, mathematics and statistics, medicine, music, neurology, oncology, philosophy, political science, psychology and psychiatry, religion, and sociology and social work.

Periodicals Contents Index Full Text (PCI Full Text)
Comprehensive historical index of articles in numerous periodicals and journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including many European titles. Coverage from 1770 to present.

The Philosopher's Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

Social Science Abstracts
Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

Web of Science - Arts and Humanities and Social Science Citation Indexes
Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.


 

PRINT RESOURCES

DICTIONARIES / ENCYCLOPEDIAS / GUIDES
REF DS102.8 .B46 1989 Abramson, Glenda, et al. (eds.) The Blackwell companion to Jewish culture : from the eighteenth century to the present. Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Reference, 1989.
REF Z6366 .S526 2001 Amer. Jewish Hist. Soc. American Jewish desk reference. New York: Random House, 1999.
REF PN1995.9 J46 G8 1991 A Guide to films featured in the Jewish Film Festival. Berkeley, CA: Jewish Film Festival, 1991.
REF DS102.8 .E496 Encyclopaedia Judaica. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
REF PN1995.9 J46 J48 1992 Jewish film directory: a guide to more than 1200 films of Jewish interest from 32 countries over 85 years. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.`
REF DS121 .K23 1999 Kamm, Antony. The Israelites: an introduction. New York: Routledge, 1999.
REF Z6373 .U5 K64 1986 Kohn, Gary J. The Jewish experience: a guide to manuscript sources in the Library of Congress. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.
REF DS102.9 .W675 1996 Lipsitz, Edmond Y. (ed.) World Jewish directory. Toronto, ON, Canada : J.E.S.L. Educational Products, 1996.
REF DS102.8 .S545 1998 Mordecai Schreiber (ed.) The Shengold Jewish Encyclopedia. Rockville, Md. : Shengold Books, 1998.
REF E184 .J5 P64 1977 Postal, Bernard and Lionel Koppman. American Jewish landmarks: a travel guide and history. New York: Fleet Press, 1977.
REF GV697 A1 P58 Postal, Bernard. Encyclopedia of Jews in sports. New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1965.
REF DS124 .M386 2002 Roth, Norman, (ed.) Medieval Jewish Civilization: an encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2003.
REF DS135 .P6 W37 1997 Weiner, Miriam. Jewish roots in Poland: pages from the past and archival inventories. Secaucus, N.J.: Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation, 1997.
REF DS135 .U4 W45 1999 Weiner, Miriam. Jewish roots in Ukraine and Moldova: pages from the past and archival inventories. Secaucus, N.J.: Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation, 1999.
REF PS374.J48 C66 1997 Shatzky, Joel, et al. (eds.). Contemporary Jewish-American novelists : a bio-critical sourcebook. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997.
REF PS374.J48 C66 1997 Shatzky, Joel and Michael Taub. (eds.). Contemporary Jewish-American dramatists and poets : a bio-critical sourcebook. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.
REF DS135.E8 E45 2001 Spector, Shmuel and Geoffrey Wigoder, (eds.). The encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust. New York : New York University Press, 2001.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES
REF Z6366 .C87   Cutter, Charles. Jewish reference sources : a selective, annotated bibliographic guide. London: Garland, 1982.
REF Z6367 .I5 Index to Jewish Periodicals.
REF Z6373 .U5 K34 1995   Kaganoff, Nathan M.. Judaica Americana : an annotated bibliography of publications from 1960-1990. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1995.
REF Z6366 .S526 1986 Singerman, Robert. Jewish serials of the world: a research bibliography of secondary sources. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986.
REF Z6366 .S526 2001 Singerman, Robert. Jewish serials of the world: a supplement to the research bibliography of secondary sources. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.
REF Z6374 .F6 Y37 1986 Yassif, Eli. Jewish folklore : an annotated bibliography. New York : Garland, 1986.
BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
REF CT210 .B5 Biography Index (FAU Electronic Collection)
  Biography Resource Center (FAU Electronic Collection)
REF DS115 .C6 2002 Comay, Joan. Who's who in Jewish history after the period of the Old Testament. New York: Routledge, 2002.
REF BS1199 .K5 R64 1999 Rogerson, John W. Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: the reign-by-reign record of the rulers of ancient Israel. London: Thames and Hudson, 1999.
Formerly in Judaica Reference
REF Z6373 .E86 J48 1994 Auerbach, Rena R (ed.). The "Jewish Question" in German-speaking countries, 1848-1914: a bibliography. New York: Garland, 1994
DS135.R9 C58  
(Special Collections)
Cohen, Chester G. Shtetl finder : Jewish communities in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the pale of settlement of Russia and Poland, and in Lithuania, Latvia, Galicia, and Bukovina, with names of residents. Los Angeles : Periday Co., 1980.
REF BM50 .C615 1992 Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. The Blackwell dictionary of Judaica. Oxford: Blackwell Reference, 1992.
REF Z1229 .J4 C76 1991 Cronin, Gloria L., Blaine H. Hall, and Connie Lamb. Jewish American fiction writers: an annotated bibliography. New York: Garland, 1991.
REF ML128 .J4 H48 1985 Heskes, Irene. The resource book of Jewish music: a bibliographical and topical guide to the book and journal literature and program materials. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.
REF Z6373 .U5 K37 1988 Karkhanis, Sharad. Jewish heritage in America: an annotated bibliography. New York: Garland Pub., 1988.
REF Z6366 .K67 1990 Korsch, Boris. Soviet publications on Judaism, Zionism, and the State of Israel, 1984-1988: an annotated bibliography. New York: Garland Pub., 1990.
REF Z6373 .R9 L83 1992 Luckert, Yelena. Soviet Jewish history, 1917-1991. New York: Garland Pub., 1992.
REF DS102.8 .M37 Marwick, Lawrence. Biblical and Judaic acronyms. New York: Ktav Pub. House, 1979.
REF Z6374 .F34 S34 1987 Schlesinger, Benjamin. Jewish family issues: a resource guide. New York: Garland Pub., 1987.
REF Z6374 .B5 Z78 1989 Zubatsky, David S. Jewish autobiographies and biographies: an international bibliography of books and dissertations in English. New York: Garland Pub., 1989.

 

JOURNALS (ELECTRONIC & PRINT)

Note: Please check the Catalog and/or our Electronic Collections page for current holdings information
PRINT JOURNALS
Call Number
 JOURNAL TITLE
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS 
Available Online?
E184.J5 A5 American Jewish History Yes

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Baltimore Jewish Times Yes
DS101 .C63    Commentary

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DS101 .C655 Congress Monthly

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DS101 .C67    Contemporary Jewry
BM1 .E86    European Judaism Yes

AN1 .F675   

Forward Yes

DS149.A1 H3

Hadassah Magazine

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--- Jewish Advocate Yes

DS101 .J49   

Jewish Affairs

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--- Jewish Chronicle Yes
DS133 .J48    Jewish Currents

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DS149.A1 J48    Jewish Frontier

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DS101 .J46556 Jewish History Yes

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Jewish Journal Yes
DS101 .J495 Jewish Journal of Sociology

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Jewish News Bulletin of Northern California Yes
DS101 .J5    Jewish Quarterly Review

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DS101 .J555 Jewish Social Studies Yes
--- Jewsweek Yes
--- Journal of Psychology and Judaism Yes
--- Judaica Librarianship Yes
BM1 .J8    Judaism Yes
BM195 .M63 Modern Judaism Yes
DS101 .M59    Moment

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New York Jewish Week Yes
REF BL1 .R34    Religion Yes
--- Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Yes

AP92 .J66   

The Jewish Spectator  ---

DS101 .J3525   

The Jerusalem Report  ---

DS101 .T54   

Tikkun  --- 
--- Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal Yes
Note: Current issues are kept in Current Periodicals and Microforms (CPM), 1st floor, west wing. Older issues are shelved in the general collection by call number on the other floors.

 

SELECTED WEB SITES

Molly S. Fraiburg Judaica Collections Learn more about these special collections at the S. E. Wimberly Library
Fraiberg Collection: Judaica Web Links A comprehensive list of links compiled by the Judaica Collections staff
The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe An interactive website devoted to the film project documenting these historical treasures
Holocaust and Judaic Studies at FAU Learn more about the bachelor's degree and certificate programs
FAU's Holocaust Outreach Center A joint effort of the College of Education and the Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 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
Remember.org Cybrary of the Holocaust
JewishGen The home of Jewish genealogy
Jewish Women in America An annotated bibliography and guide to archival resources
Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority of Jerusalem
Mendele A forum for Yiddish literature and language
Jewish Language Research Website Includes information about Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Israeli Sign Language, and more
Hillel The foundation for Jewish campus life
Hillel of Broward and Palm Beach
Shamash The Jewish Network
Kesser A guide to Chabad literature
Chabad House of Boca Raton
Hasidism: an overview
Religious Movements: Hasidism
National Yiddish Book Center
Yale University Judaica Exhibit
American Jewish Historical Society
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Simon Wiesenthal Center
The Jerusalem Post
Chabad
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