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Explore research options for Jewish history, Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Jewish philosophy and religion
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Find Books
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Hebrew Literatureis fairly broad and encompasses all time periods.
- Use Hebrew Literature, Modern as one possible limit. Or Israeli literature
- You can search for a writer or a theme as a SUBJECT.
- Ex.: Amos Oz
- Ex.: Animals in literature
- Ex.: David Grossman
- Ex.: Zionism in literature
- You can use the Language limit in a catalog search to limit to Hebrew or English results.
Find Articles
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The MLA International Bibliographythe best database to use to find articles and book chapters on Hebrew literature
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Oxford Bibliography in Jewish Studiesgood article and sources under "Literature, Modern Hebrew"
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Index to Jewish Periodicalsthe 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.
Digital Texts and Tools
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Kotar LibraryA major repository for Hebrew language ebooks.
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Otzar HaHochmaOnline library of Judaic books, containing over 41,500 books (seforim). The database includes scanned books and manuscript encompassing all realms of Judaism, from ancient times to the modern period.
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Sefaria.orgExplore 3,000 years of Jewish texts in Hebrew and English translation.
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Hebrewbooks.orgHebrewbooks.org was founded in order to preserve old American Hebrew books that are out of print and/or circulation.
Dictionaries and Lexica
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LexilogosA portal for a variety of lexical resources for Modern Hebrew, including Milog
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Milon OnlineIncludes access to Milon Sapir.
Search these reference collections
- For many authors there will be a volume in Cambridge Companions. Or cross search the entire archive.
- Oxford Scholarship Online is another cross-searchable database.
- LION has good basic information on writers.
- The e-texts portion of LION is English-language works.
- But the criticism and reference components treat writers of many nationalities.
- Artemis Literary Sources also has good basic information on writers.
- It will give overviews of works and critical articles on writers.
Books on D-level
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Browsing the library shelvesThe main Hebrew Language and Literature collections are found on D-level at MSEL under the following call numbers:
* PT (White Label Section): Books on Hebrew language and literature, cataloged before 7/96
* PJ 4501-5192 (Blue Label Section): Books on Hebrew literature and language cataloged after 7/96.