Judaic, Yiddish and Israel Studies

Bibliographies

  • Bibliography of the Hebrew Book
    Contains about 141,000 documents, and more than 15,000 biographies of authors, covering more than 90% of all books published in Hebrew languages from the years 1470-1960 Features a complete list of books in Hebrew and books with text in Ladino and Yiddish, as well lesser-known Jewish languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Bucharit, Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Afrikaans and Judeo-Kurdish. Also freely accessible at JUNL -- http://aleph.nli.org.il/F?func=find-b-0&local_base=mbi01

Books and Text Collections

Otsar ha-Hokhmah
Contains more than 50,045 Judaic books, scanned page after page in their original format. UCB access only

  • Hebrewbooks.org
    Over 23,000 out-of-print classical religious Hebrew and Yiddish texts and periodicals. Freely available both for study and downloading. All searching is in Hebrew characters and a keyboard for input is provided.
  • Responsa Project
    Online collection of Jewish texts. Includes rabbinic case-law rulings, and the Bible, the Talumd and their principal commentaries; works about Jewish law, codes of Jewish law, such as Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch; Midrashim, Zohar, Responsa, etc. Access to the Talmudic Encyclopedia also included. Requires Adobe Flash player. In Hebrew.

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