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Hebrew & Jewish Studies Resources

The resources supporting Hebrew, Jewish, and Yiddish studies at The University of Texas at Austin cover a variety of disciplines including history, art, music, linguistics and literature, sociology, and government. Published and archival materials supporting these areas of study are found in almost every unit of the University of Texas Libraries. For example, the Perry-Castañeda Library offers a sizable collection of Judaica in Hebrew, Yiddish, and modern languages. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center collection contains the South African Judaica collection, The Gottesman Collection of Hebraica & Judaica, and manuscripts by Jewish writers such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, and many others.



Databases and Indexes to Articles
  • America: History and Life
    • 1964 - present. (ABC-CLIO) Updated four times a year. Contains citations with abstracts to social science and humanities literature on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present. Covers books, book reviews, journals and dissertations. Also reviews films and video projects. The database corresponds to the print America: History and Life, which is produced by ABC-CLIO. The database covers history, interdisciplinary studies of historical interest and history-related topics in the social sciences and humanities. Requires UTEID
  • ATLA - Religion Database Full Text
    1949 - present. (FirstSearch) Updated twice per year. Comprehensive index to religious, theological and related scholarship covering over 1,380 journal titles internationally, as well as 13,000 multi-authored books and reviews. There are a total of over 847,000 citations. Coverage is comprehensive back to 1949, and includes earlier data for the Methodist Reviews Index. Requires UTEID
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica
    2nd Edition. Full text online. Features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history in all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings. Requires UTEID
  • Historical Abstracts
    1969 - present. (ABC-CLIO) Updated three - six times a year. Contains citations and abstracts of worldwide literature (excluding the United States and Canada) from approximately 2,100 journals and since 1980, books and dissertations on political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural and intellectual history and related areas of the social sciences and humanities. Covers history dating from 1450 to the present. Requires UTEID
  • RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
    1985 - present. Updated regularly. Provides a bibliographic resource in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Materials are compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles (in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages) mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library (JNUL).
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