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Academic Search Elite General subject database indexing and abstracts for over 3,000 popular and scholarly journals, some journals go back to 1985.
America History & Life Index to U.S. and Canadian history. Covers more than 2000 scholarly journals, books, review articles, and Ph.D. dissertations. Articles date back to the 1950s.
ATLA Religion Database Produced by the American Theological Library Association, this index covers biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in society. It contains more than 350,000 article citations from 600 journals and 200,000 essay citations from multi-author works plus over 360,000 book review citations. Database dates back to the 1940s but there are many articles dating back to the mid 1800s that deal with the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Ethnic NewsWatch Comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Articles may date back to 1960. TIP, in the Advanced Search Form, go to Ethnic Group and pick "Jewish".
Historical Abstracts Scholarly index journal articles in world history exclusive of the United States and Canada. Historical coverage begins with "modern history" defined as the era post 1450. Article publication dates go back to the 1950s.
Historical Los Angeles Times, 1881-1984 . (Currently full text up to1976). Full text, page to page content of the Los Angeles Times. Includes complete articles, photographs, advertisements, classified ads, legal notices, comics, editorials, commentary, letters to the editor, sports, radio and television schedules.
Historical New York Times, 1851-2001. Full text, page to page content of the New York Times. Includes complete articles, photographs, advertisements, classified ads, legal notices, comics, editorials, commentary, letters to the editor, sports, radio and television schedules.
Humanities Abstracts Indexes over 400 scholarly periodicals on archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Online index goes back to 1994.
Humanities and Social Science Index Retrospective. Indexes hundreds of scholarly journal articles in the humanities and social sciences from 1907 through 1983. It is the immediate predecessor of the Humanities Abstracts mentioned above and the Social Sciences Abstracts below.
Philosopher's Index International index with abstracts covering more than 400 philosophy journals and books. Index goes back to 1949.
RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies As described from the website... RAMBI "is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material...is 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... The main criterion for inclusion...is that the article be based on scientific research, or contain important information for such research."
Social Sciences Abstracts Indexes over 400 international English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law. Index goes back to 1984.
Anthropology Plus Worldwide coverage of the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and related interdisciplinary studies. Index coverage goes back to 1880.
GeoBase Covers more than 2000 scholarly journals in human and physical geography. Includes citations to approximately 3000 book chapters, proceedings, reports and papers. Index goes back to 1980.
MLA International Bibliography Scholarly index to journal articles, book chapters and dissertations in world literature and languages. Database goes back to 1962.
PsychInfo Covers scholarly literature, journals, dissertations and book chapters in psychology. Index goes back to 1887
Reader's Guide Abstracts Covers popular magazine articles dating back to 1983.
Reader's Guide Retrospective Covers popular magazine articles published from 1890-1983.
SocINDEX Provides abstracts to articles on topics of ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, sociology, religion, socio-cultural anthropology and other issues. Articles range from 1940 to date
Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory Self described as..."the prime gateway to 417 high quality resources for the study of Judaism..."
Jewish Community Chronicle (Long Beach, CA). Contains the online digitized text of the print newspaper published from 1947-2002.
Jewish Encyclopedia. Free online full text contents of the 1908 edition.
Jewish Federation of Greater Long Beach and West Orange County.
Jewish History Resource Center. Produced by Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History.
Jewish Virtual Library. Self described as... "your source for information about Jewish history, Israel, U.S.-Israel relations, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and Judaism... Our goal is to provide the basic information you need to be informed, whether it is to satisfy your own interest or to prepare for a research paper, speech, article or debate..."
Judaism and Jewish Resources. Many links to Jewish resources on the web.
Maven Search: Jewish Web Directory. The title describes it.
American Jewish Desk Reference / American Jewish Historical Society. (REF E184.35 .A44 1999)
American Jewish Year Book. (REF E184.J5 A6)
Atlas of Modern Jewish History / Evyatar Friesel. (REF G1030 .F6513 1990)
Encyclopaedia Judaica. 16 vols. (REF DS102.8 .E5)
Encyclopedia of Jewish symbols / by Ellen Frankel and Betsy Platkin Teutsch. (REF BM50 .F74 1992)
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / Israel Gutman, editor in chief. 4 vols. (REF D804.3 .E53 1990)
Encyclopedia of Judaism / edited by Jacob Neusner. 3 vols (REF BM50 .E63 1999)
Historical Atlas of the Jewish People : From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present / general editor, Eli Barnavi. (REF DS117 .J8513 1992)
Holocaust encyclopedia / Walter Laqueur, editor (REF D804.25 .H66 2001)
The Jewish religion : A Companion / Louis Jacobs. (REF BM50 .J28 1995)
Jewish writers of North America : A Guide To Information Sources / Ira Bruce Nadel. (REF PS153.J4 N32)
Jewish Women in America : An Historical Encyclopedia / edited by Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore. 2 vols. (REF DS115.2 .J49 1997)
Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary / in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. ( REF PJ4833 .O9 1998)
Who's Who in Jewish History; After the Period of the Old Testament. (REF DS115 .C6)
Jewish Studies Program at CSULB
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