LibGuides: Jewish Studies: Books & eBooks

Local Libraries

Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library
The Dorot Jewish Division contains a comprehensive and balanced chronicle of the religious and secular history of the Jewish people in over a quarter of a million books, microforms, manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, and ephemera from all over the world.
JBI International
Leo Baeck Institute Library
Documenting German Jewish history, the library includes a comprehensive collection of belles lettres by Jewish writers, extensive material on the so-called 'Jewish Problem' and antisemitism, and more than 800 periodicals put out by Jewish publishers from the 18th to 20th centuries.
Association of Jewish Libraries
The Association of Jewish Libraries promotes Jewish literacy through enhancement of libraries and library resources, access to information, learning, teaching and research relating to Jews, Judaism, the Jewish experience and Israel.
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Houses the greatest collection of Judaica in the Western Hemisphere, providing the Jewish community and the world with direct access to an astonishing array of materials that speak to Jewish history and our shared Jewish experience.
Hebrew Union College – Klau Library
This New York City library collects and preserves a large selection of resource materials.

eBooks including dictionaries and encyclopedias

OneSearch
Just below the OneSearch box, click: Advanced Search. In the Resource Type pull-down menu on the right side of the screen, select Books. Note that you can search for books just at CCNY, all of CUNY, and also SUNY. Books at other CUNY campus or at SUNY can be delivered to you at CCNY.

ATLA Historical Monographs Collection This link opens in a new window
The ATLA Historical Monographs Collection consists of two series that provide access to more than 29,000 titles ocused on religion and theology. Dating mostly from 1850 through 1922, a time of great doctrinal, social and organizational turmoil and upheaval in American culture, this resource is vital for scholars seeking to understand religious thought and practice in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Topics covered include church life, demographics, doctrinal disputes, higher criticism, Judeo-Christian religions, Non-Western religions, and social movements.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Contains a collection of more than 200,000 titles from leading academic, scientific, technical, medical, and professional publishers.
To learn more about reading and borrowing on the EBook Central platform, go to https://proquest.libguides.com/ebookcentral

Encyclopaedia Judaica
Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to 'Americana' and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures, Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition is important to scholars, general readers and students.

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive online literature resource, offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
A rich resource of several hundred online versions of print reference books divided into 18 subject categories: Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, General Reference, History, Information & Publishing, Law, Library Science, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, the Nation & the World, Religion, Science, Social Science and Technology. The Advanced Search option offers the choice to further limit search results by three target audiences, such as Academic.
Harvard University Press ebooks This link opens in a new window
City College has access to over 550 e-Books from Harvard University Press through De Gruyter Online. Titles cover science and the humanities.
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Hathi Trust is a shared digital repository built on the collections from various research libraries.

Hebrew Dictionary
From babylon translation @ a click comes this bi-directional online Hebrew Dictionary. Look up words, phrases, abbreviations & acronyms. Included are terms from a variety of subjects, such as Medicine, Electronics, Zoology, Business, Computers, and Religion. Features both the American and British forms of spelling.
HebrewBooks.org
11,000 books and 200 journals published in Hebrew from 1860 to the present. If one wants to know about Jewish laws concerning Coca Cola or prohibition, or what the rabbis had to say about the Titanic, it's here.
Holocaust Chronicle
Contains the full text of the book of the same name as well as a selection of the images, providing a detailed history of the atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II. A timeline of Jewish history begins in the Prologue with the Hebrews moving to Egypt c. 1500 BCE, and ends in the Epilogue in mid-1999 with the Swiss banks' settlement for Holocaust survivors. Brief histories of anti-Semitism and fascism, a background of Germany leading up to the war, and more.
Holocaust Encyclopedia
Online encyclopedia from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Internet Sacred Text Archive
The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet, dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship.Click on "Judaism" on the left to find Tanakh, Talmud, Pirke Avot, Haggada, Midrash, Kabbalah and more, some available in Hebrew as well as English translation.
Israel - A Country Study
From the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, this is a comprehensive look at the state of the country as of December 1988. The historical sections are most useful.
Jewish Book Council
The longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature, featuring latest book reviews, reading lists, and a database of over 8,000 titles.
Jewish Book World
Listing of new books and book reviews.
Jewish Encyclopedia
Contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations. This online version contains the unedited contents of the original encyclopedia. Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish History.
Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
From the Jewish Women's Archive, this Encyclopedia incorporates the contents of a 1997 work, 'Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia' and a 2006 updated CD ROM version. Starting with a core of approximately 2,000 carefully researched, written, and edited articles, new content will be gathered from libraries, archives, and individual contributors and represent 'the most extensive collection of material on American Jewish women on the web.'
Kabbalah Unveiled
Kabbala Denudata: The Kabbalah Unveiled, 1912 edition, translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers. Online full text of the following books of the Zohar: The Book of Concealed Mystery, The Greater Holy Assembly and The Lesser Holy Assembly.
LibreTexts
Free textbooks.
Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
Here you can simultaneously search several Open Educational Resources (OER) repositories.
MERLOT
The easiest way to find open-access books is to click Materials in the Browse pull-down menu. Also provided is access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
My Hebrew Dictionary
For the new Hebrew learner, a dictionary organized by topic.
OASIS
Open Educational Resources, that is, free textbooks and other educational materials.
Online Books Page
From the University of Pennsylvania, more than 35,000 freely-accessible e-books, including 21st Century imprints from sources such as the U. of Pittsburgh Press.
Open Library
Links to online books, mostly older books.
Oxford Reference Online
You can search for reference materials by subject..This resource is limited to five simultaneous CCNY users.

Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books, has over 20,000 free books available for online viewing or downloading.

Sefaria
Sefaria is a vast free library of Jewish texts, including Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Mishnah, Talmud, Prayer Books, Philosophy, Mysticism, Jewish law, other writings, and many commentaries. Nearly all of the Hebrew and Aramaic texts have accompanying English translations.
University of California Press Jewish Studies ebooks
17 publicly available titles
Yiddish Dictionary Online
A growing dictionary, standardized on YIVO transcription.
YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
The encyclopedia is the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. Broad topics include: arts, daily life, places, language & literature, history & politics, and religion.

Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Wiley Online Library (Wiley) is a database consisting of over 1000 journals, reference works, and online books. New for 2019-2020! CUNY has access to a high quality, multidisciplinary collection of over 21,000 titles.

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WorldCat

WorldCat provides complete bibliographic information on nearly all materials published in all subject areas in all languages. It draws its information from the library holdings of thousands of libraries around the world. Included in the database are books, periodicals (but not individual articles), sound and video recordings, electronic resources, dissertations and theses.