Selected Reference Works on Modern Jewish History

Resources in the Trustee Reading Room

The American Historical Association's guide to historical  literature. Mary Beth Norton.  3rd ed.    New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
(DR)   Z6201 .A55 1995  Ready Reference

American Jewish desk reference. American Jewish Historical Society.
DR). Firestone PN146 .M47 1999

Chronicle of the First World War. Randal Gray.  New York, NY : Facts on File, 1990-1991.
(DR)   D523 .G634 1990

Edelheit, Abraham J.  Bibliography on Holocaust literature.  Boulder : Westview Press, 1986.
(DR)  Z6374.H6 E33 1986   (DR)  Z6374.H6 E33 1986 suppl.

Edelheit, Abraham J.  The Jewish world in modern times : a selected, annotated  bibliography   Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1988.
(DR)   Z6372 .E25 1988

Edelheit, Hershel. A world in turmoil : an integrated chronology of the Holocaust and World War  New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
(DR) D804.3 .E34 1991

Encyclopaedia Judaica.  Corrected ed.  Jerusalem : Encyclopaedia Judaica, [between 1982 and 1993]  17 v.
(DR)  DS102.8 .E496q

Encyclopædia Judaica [computer file] : CD-ROM edition.  Shaker Heights, Ohio : Judaica Multimedia, c1997.
(DR) ask at reference desk

Encyclopedia of genocide / Israel W. Charny, editor in chief ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 1999.
(DR) HV6322.7.E53 1999

The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / Israel Gutman, editor in chief.  New York : Macmillan, c1990. 4v.
(DR) D804.3 .E53 1990

A historical atlas of the Jewish people : from the time of the patriarchs to the present General editor, Eli Barnavi ; English edition editor, Miriam Eliav-Feldon ; cartogtaphy, Michel Opatowski. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992.
(DR): Atlases. Oversize DS117 .J8513 1992q

The Holocaust encyclopedia.  Walter Laqueur, editor.  New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.
(DR) D804.3 .H644 2001

Jewish-American history and culture : an encyclopedia edited by Jack Fischel and Sanford Pinsker.  New York :
Garland, 1992.
(DR).  E184.J5 J48 1992

Nazzal, Nafez. Historical dictionary of Palestine Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1997.
(DR)  DS102.8 .N397 1997

The Oxford companion to World War II  Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
(DR) D740 .O94 1995

Gribetz, Judah. The timetables of Jewish history : a chronology of the most important people and events in Jewish history
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1993.
(DR) DS114 .G68 1993

Totten, Samuel.  First-person accounts of genocidal acts committed in the  twentieth century : an annotated bibliography.   New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.
(DR)   Z6207.G44 T67 1991

Antisemitism : an annotated bibliography.  The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of  Antisemitism, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ;edited by Susan Sarah Cohen.   New York : Garland, 1987-
(F)  Z6374.A56 A57 1987

Attal, Robert. Bibliyografyah shel kitve Prof. Shelomoh Dov Goitain me-et Avraham Hatal.
Near East Collection (SY) DS135.A68 A9 2000

Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature edited by David Patterson, Alan L. Berger, and Sarita Cargas. Westport, Conn.
London : Oryx Press, 2002.
(F) PN56.H55 E53 2002

The encyclopedia of Jewish life : before and during the Holocaust editor in chief, Shmuel Spector ; consulting editor, Geoffrey
Wigoder ; foreword by Elie Wiesel. Publication: New York : New York University Press, 2001.
(F) DS135.E8 E45 2001

Gregorovich, Andrew. Jewish-Ukrainian bibliography : a selected annotated bibliography of resources in English
(F) Z6373.U38 G74 1999

The "Jewish question" in German-speaking countries: 1848-1914 : a bibliography. Edited by Rena R. Auerbach.  New York : Garland, 1994.
(F)  Z6373.E86 J48 1994

Laska, Vera. Nazism, resistance & holocaust in World War II : a bibliography.  Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1985.
(F)  Z6374.H6 L37 1985

Leslie, Donald, 1922- Jews and Judaism in traditional China : a comprehensive bibliography.
Sankt Augustin : Monumenta Serica Institute ; Nettetal, Germany : Distributed by Steyler Verlag, [1998]

Luckert, Yelena.  Soviet Jewish history, 1917-1991 : an annotated  bibliography. New York : Garland Pub., 1992.
(F)   Z6373.R9 L83 1992

Rosen, Philip. Bearing witness : a resource guide to literature, poetry, art, music, and videos by Holocaust victims and
survivors.   Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
(F) Z6374.H6 R67 2002

Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia. English. The encyclopedia of Russian Jewry / editor in chief, Herman Branover ; chief consultant, Isaiah Berlin. Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, 1998-
(F)  DS135.R9 R6713 1998

Salamon, Hagar  Yehude Etyopiyah : bibliyografyah mu`eret, 748-758. Yerushalayim : Mekhon Ben-Tsevi le-heker kehilot Yi´sra'el ba-Mizrah, Yad Yitshak Ben-Tsevi veha-Universitah ha-`Ivrit, 1998.
( Near East Collection (SY)  Firestone Z6373.E9 S24 1998 )

Singerman, Robert.  Antisemitic propaganda : an annotated bibliography and  research guide .  New York : Garland, 1982.
(F)  Z6372 .S54

The Universal Jewish encyclopedia ... an authoritative and popular presentation of Jews and Judaism since the earliest times. Edited by Isaac Landman.  New York, The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, inc. [c1939-43]
(F) 0981.924   v.1-10, index.

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945  .Adolf Hitler collection, 1912-1946  1.15 cu. ft. (3 boxes)
Electronic Access:  Finding aid     Material located in Rare Books

Archives of the Holocaust   New York : Garland, 1989-1995.
(F)  Z6374.H6 A73   vol. 1-22

Britain and the Holy Land, 1838-1914 : selected documents from the British consulate in Jerusalem. [edited by]
Mordechai Eliav.  Jerusalem : Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press : Magnes Press, Hebrew University, c1997.
 (F)  DS125 .B75 1997

Century of genocide : eyewitness accounts and critical views/ edited by Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons,   Israel W. Charny. New York : Garland Pub., 1997.
(F)   HV6322.7 .C46 1997

Jones, Philip.  Britain and Palestine, 1914-1948 : archival sources for the history of the British Mandate.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1979.
(F)   Z6374.Z5 J65

The Rise of Israel : a documentary record from the nineteenth century to 1948 / general editor,
Howard M. Sachar et al.  New York : Garland Pub., 1987-   39 v.
(F) DS149 .R5328 1987

Trials of war criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council law no. 10, Nuremberg,
October 1946-April, 1949.   Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1949-1953.  15 v.
(F)  14101.222.3868

Vadnay, Zsuzsa. A selected bibliography of research on Canadian Jewry : 1900-1980 Ottawa : S. Vadnay, 1991.
(F) Z6373.C3 V331991

Universitah ha-`Ivrit bi-Yerushalayim. Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu. Bibliographical Center.Oral history of contemporary Jewry :
an annotated catalogue Bibliographical Center of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
 New York : Garland Pub., 1990.
Near East Graduate Study Room (SNE). Firestone B-Fl Z6372 .U55 1990
 

Zubatsky, David S.  Jewish autobiographies and biographies : an international  bibliography of books and dissertations in English.  New York : Garland, 1989.
(F)   Z6374.B5 Z78 1989

Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis).
Full text newspapers and journals, including the Jerusalem Post and the Jerusalem Report

ABC Pol Sci 1984+
indexes current periodical literature in political science and  government as well as related disciplines such as law,
sociology, and economics.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index.  (A&HCI) (Web of Science), 1975+

America History & Life 1964+
historical coverage of the United States and Canada  from prehistory to the present .

Contemporary Women's Issues  (Full-text.) 1992+

Encyclopedia Judaica.    located in General and Humanities Reference; ask at desk

Encyclopedia of Islam

Ethnic NewsWatch.  1985+ (Includes Ethnic NewsWatch: A History. 1960-1989.)
American Ethnic newspapers; full-text; several Jewish American papers are included)

*Historical Abstracts 1960+
historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present  (excluding the United States and Canada)

Index Islamicus.   1906+

Index to Jewish Periodicals   1988+ available in the Trustee Reading Room; ask at desk
annually published guide to articles, book reviews, feature stories, and other contents in English, appearing in
more than 140 periodicals devoted to Jewish affairs.

PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service. 1980+
indexes  articles in over 1,400 periodicals and thousands of  government documents, statistical directories,
reports, pamphlets, conference proceedings, and books. Coverage includes public and social policy  issues.

*Periodical Contents Index 1770+
indexes periodicals in the humanities and social sciences  published since 1770.  This index includes journals  published in
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.

Political Science Abstracts 1975+
contains abstracts of materials from public affairs magazines, major news magazines, professional journals, and books devoted to
politics and political analysis for both foreign as well as U.S. politics.

OmniFile (Wilson).  Full Text Mega. 1982+

Rambi/Reshimat ma´amarim be-mada`e ha-yahadut. /Index to Articles on Jewish Studies  1985+
bibliography of articles on Jewish studies and  Israel.  Material 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.

Readers' Guide Retrospective.  1963-1982

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) (Web of Science).  1956+

Women's Resources International.  1972+

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.  1975+

*Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service.    New York : H.W. Wilson, 1915-1967.
(DR)   Z7163 .P9
contains records describing articles in over 1,400 periodicals and thousands of  government documents,statistical directories,
reports, pamphlets, conference proceedings, and books. Coverage includes materials from the entire spectrum of public and
social policy  issues.

Index to Jewish periodicals.  Cleveland Heights, Ohio : Index to Jewish Periodicals, [1963?-
(DR)   Z6367 .I5     [Vol. 1] (June 1963-May 1964)-v. 37 (Jan.-Dec. 1999)
(SNE) Z6367 .I5     Vol. 20, no. 1-2 (July-Dec. 1982)-v. 37 (Jan.-Dec. 1999)
index to articles, book review, and other contents in English, appearing in more than 140 English language periodicals.

*International index to periodicals.  New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 1907-1955; continued by International index 1956-1965;
continued by: Social sciences & humanities index. 1966-1974.   Now split into the Humanities Index and the Social Science Index.
(DR)  Z6941 .xR49
indexes English language journals in the humanities and the social sciences.

*Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1893-
(DR)  Z1223 .A18
official catalog of documents published by the  U.S. government.   Indexes congressional, departmental, and
agency publications.  The same data from 1976-  is also available on the web via the GPO database.

Rambi/Reshimat ma´amarim be-mada`e ha-yahadut /Index to Articles on Jewish Studies   Yerushalayim : Hotsa'at sefarim `al shem Y.L. Magnes-ha-Universitah ha `Ivrit,  1966-1996.
(SY)   Z6367.J62    1966--1996
a selective bibliography of articles in Jewish studies and in the study of Israel.  Material 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..