Databases for Jewish Studies

Databases for Jewish Studies

Ancient Hebrew Database
The project will concentrate on the language of all texts in Ancient Hebrew: the Hebrew Bible, the Ancient Hebrew inscriptions, the Hebrew text of Ben Sira and the Hebrew Qumran texts.

Institute of Contemporary Jewry
This is an overall index - WORD search only - to the computerized databases and projects of the Center for Computerized Research Services at the Hebrew University's Institute of Contemporary Jewry.

Sicsa Databases on Antisemitism
The Vidal Sasoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism online databases, containing about 30,00 items.

	Flavius Josephus - Searchable Bibliography Database - Institutum Judaicum Delitzchianum The complete relevant literature on Flavius Josephus is being systematically registered and bibliographically processed with the goal of providing an electronic bibliography. It shall include all monographs, anthologies and periodical essays beginning in 1985.
	Index of Articles in Jewish Studies (Rambi) - The Jewish National and University Library A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages.

	Studies in Zionism / Journal of Israeli History Bibliography - Online Searchable Database - Tel-Aviv University The bibliography contains material on the following subjects: Zionist ideology; the Zionist movement, its organizations, parties and policies; responses to Zionism, the history of Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel - the Yishuv, its political institutions and parties; the social, economic and cultural development of the Yishuv; and the domestic and foreign policies of Israel. The bibliography covers material dealing with the years 1882-1967, with occasional references to earlier Zionist and Jewish nationalist thinkers. The bibliography covers research, memoirs, diaries and reference works published since 1980. It holds 8,948 bibliographic entries.
	Igrot Ahad-Haam - Online Searchable Database - Tel-Aviv University
	Kibbutz Online Searchable Database - Haifa University A comprehensive computerized bibliography of all scientific publication related to the kibbutz. The bibliography contains some 5,000 items, about half in Hebrew and the rest mostly in English.
	Geobase - Israel Regional Database - The Hebrew University GEOBASE is organized as a geographic Data Warehouse consists of regularly updated annual and quarterly series on topics such as: economic activities, labor and wages, population, transportation, tourism, housing & construction and education. Its contents is extracted from sources such as statistical publications, local authorities databases, public services records, and summaries derived from individual level datasets.
	The Palestine Post (1939-1948) Searchable Database - Tel-Aviv University The Palestine Post was published from 1932 to 1950, when it was renamed the Jerusalem Post. It was the only English language newspaper in Mandatory Palestine, and one of the leading newspapers of the Jewish community at that time. It is a major source for modern Jewish history, the history of the modern Jewish community in the land of Israel, of Israel's struggle for independence, of Middle Eastern history, and of the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust.

Bibliography of the History of Polish Jewry - Online Searchable Database - Tel-Aviv University
This bibliography lists books, articles, dissertations and films bearing imprint dates between 1990-94 on the history and culture of the Jews of Poland.

The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1473-1960:
A Bibliography of all Printed Hebrew Language Books before 1960. . Covers 9000 titles and 12,000 authors.

The Sol and Evelyn Henkind Talmud Text Databank
A Computerized Databank of the texts of the Babylonian Talmud Based upon Manuscripts and Early Editions.

Proquest Digital Dissertations (Dissertations Abstracts)
The database lists some 1.5 million Ph.D. dissertations and MA theses submitted to over 1,000 universities, from 1861 to date. Abstracts are included for Ph.D. dissertations since 1980 and MA theses since 1988.
Access to this service is restricted to staff and students of the following Israeli universities: Bar-Ilan University, Ben-Gurion University, Haifa University, Hebrew University, Tel-Aviv University.

JewishGen Databases
A source of all kinds of genealogical information. Including the JewishGen ShtetlSeeker, Discussion Group Archives, and much more.

The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Bibliographic Center
The Institute's Bibliographic Center comprises a unique computerized database:
35.000 items at present. Every translated poem and story has a separate and independent notation. The Database includes relevant articles, criticism and interviews, references to book reviews, articles on recent Hebrew publications, and subject and title indices in English and Hebrew.

The Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies Bibliographical Database
A unique, searchable database of bibliographic references to Western and Arabic periodical literature, which includes over 100,000 entries dating from 1979 to the present.

Last Update: 07/05/12