Jewish Literature
Ancient Jewish Novels by Publication Date: 2002This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels. Written at about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, but before the period of Rabbinic Judaism, these texts reveal the ambiguities and conflicts encountered by Jewsin this period.
The Anthology in Jewish Literature by Publication Date: 2004In the Middle Ages, the anthology became the primary medium in Jewish culture for recording stories, poems, and interpretations of classical texts. In modernity, the genre is transformed into a decisive instrument for cultural retrieval and re-creation, especially in works of the Zionist project and in modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature by Publication Date: 2003The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction.
Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature by Publication Date: 1999In this groundbreaking volume, scholars from the fields of literature, history, political science, and sociology come together to exchange new insights on the Arab-Israeli conflict. They examine how events in the region since the 1940s have affected Israeli and Palestinian concepts of identity, on either side of the cease-fire lines of 1949 and in exile communities in the region and abroad.
- Lexicon of Modern Hebrew LiteratureOnline database of more than 2000 Hebrew authors.
General Literature Databases
- Book Review Index PlusContains citations to more than 2 million reviews from scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers. Search fields include author, date, illustrator, audiobook reader, review length, reading level, review source and type, reviewer, work title, and review title.
- Dictionary of Literary BiographyProvides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world-wide literary figures from all eras and genres.Use the topic finder on the bottom left of the main page to help find narrower and related topics.
- Literature OnlineSearchable full-text of over 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, prose together with full-text journals, author biographies and other critical and reference resources. Search or browse Authors, Texts, Criticism, and Reference Materials.
- Project MuseSearchable full-text access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
Language
- The Dictionary of Jewish Usage byPublication Date: 2003Guide to the use of Jewish words and meanings. Written in a simple, discursive style, it answers questions about the spelling, meaning, origin, pronunciation, and proper use of the most common words of Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish, and Judezmo origin that appear in English speech and writing.
The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words by Publication Date: 2001A well-prepared reference to 1,000 of the most common Jewish words in use today derived from Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and English, and relating to holidays, life events, culture, history, the Bible and other sacred texts, and worship. Each entry includes pronunciation and an explanation of the word
- Hebraic Collections: An Illustrated GuideFrom the Library of Congress, available online.
- Jewish Language ResearchContains maps and links to languages spoken by Jews around the world, a Jewish-English Lexicon, translator contact information, bibliographies, and other sources.
- Yiddish SourcesLinks to conferences, dictionaries, and other sources for the Yiddish language.