Research Guides: Jewish Studies: Articles

General Jewish Studies article indexes

RAMBI: The index of articles on Jewish Studies
Major article index for Jewish Studies in many languages. Only lists articles in academic journals, Festschriften, memorial volumes and essay collections. Depends on the holdings of the National Library of Israel, where it is published. Covers 1966+
Index to Festschriften in Jewish studies
Print index to articles published in Festschriften and memorial volumes, edited by Charles Berlin. Covers 1937-June 1970.
An Index to Jewish Festschriften
Print index edited by Jacob Rader Marcus. Covers Festschriften published prior to 1936.
Index to Yiddish Periodicals
Covers materials published in Yiddish periodicals and newspapers in Eastern Europe, from its beginnings (1862) until 1939 (in the Soviet Union: until 1948).
Compact Memory
Compact Memory was one of the first projects to digitize Jewish periodicals from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its current list includes over 100 periodicals (including many of the most important journals of the 19th century) printed from 1806-1938.
Union List of Digitized Jewish Historic Newspapers, Periodicals and e-Journals

Subject-specific bibliographies and indexes

A selected bibliography of research on Canadian Jewry, 1900-1980
An excellent resource, arranged by subject includes books, articles, theses and other materials.
Index of articles relative to Jewish history and literature published in periodicals, from 1665 to 1900
Print index
Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Offers a vast collection (14,000+) of policy-relevant research and analysis on Jewish life to the public, free of charge, with holdings spanning from 1900 until today. Full-text.
The Jewish community in America : an annotated and classified bibliographical guide
Jews in Spain and Portugal: a Bibliography
Digital Judaica Americana (second edition)
Judaica Americana : a bibliography of publications to 1900
Judaica Americana: an annotated bibliography of publications from 1960-1990
Covers Canada and Latin America as well as the United States.
Orion Center Dead Sea Scrolls Bibliography
The Orion Center’s On-Line Dead Sea Scrolls Bibliography posts books, articles, and reviews related to the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Second Temple period literature. The core of the list dates from 1995 to the present;and is gradually expanding to encompass bibliography dating from the beginnings of scrolls research.
Spanish and Portuguese Jewry: a Classified Bibliography
Supplements and updates "Jews in Spain and Portugal: a Bibliography".
Yahadut Tsefon-Afriḳah : bibliyografyah
Covers Arab and African countries. Request from Downsview.

Religious studies databases

Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles from hundreds of journals in religious studies, with links to the full text of every article.
Religious and Theological Abstracts
Summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of religion and theology
Index Theologicus (IxTheo) This link opens in a new window
European source of journal articles in theology and religious studies.
Old Testament Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies.
More religious studies resources

Selected journals

AJS Review
Scholarly journal of the Association for Jewish Studies. Electronic coverage from 1976. Print coverage from 1976.
American Jewess online:1895-1899
First publication aimed at American-Jewish women.
Hebrew Union College Annual
Print coverage from 1924 to present. Electronic coverage from 1924 to 2018.
Jewish History
Electronic coverage from 1986 to present. Print coverage from 1986 to 2004.
Jewish Quarterly Review
Electronic coverage from 1888. For issues from 1888-2006, see JSTOR or our print holdings
Jewish Studies Quarterly
Journal of Jewish Studies
Electronic coverage from 1948. Print coverage from 1948.
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Electronic coverage from 2002
Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
Electronic coverage from 1999. Print coverage from 1982.
Tarbits
Premier Hebrew-language general Jewish Studies journal. Print coverage from 1929 to present. Electronic coverage from 1929 to two years ago
Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to original scholarship that illuminates any and all aspects of the Canadian Jewish experience. Published annually since 1993 and bi-annually since 2019 by the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies / l’Association d’études juives canadiennes (ACJS/Aéjc), the electronic version of journal is free and accessible at https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/ index.php/cjs.

Open Access Journals

Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies
Melilah is an interdisciplinary Open Access journal available in both electronic and printed form and concerned with Jewish law, history, literature, religion, culture and thought in the ancient, medieval and modern eras.
Women in Judaism: a multidisciplinary e-journal
WOMEN IN JUDAISM: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY e-JOURNAL is an academic, refereed journal published exclusively on the Internet, and devoted to scholarly debate on gender-related issues in Judaism. The ultimate aim of the journal is to promote the reconceptualization of the study of Judaism, by acknowledging and incorporating the roles played by women, and by encouraging the development of alternative research paradigms. Cross-methodological and interdisciplinary, the journal does not promote a fixed ideology, and welcomes a variety of approaches.
Also available via UTL catalogue
Shaanan
Hebrew open access of Journal devoted to issues of education, Judaism and society, published by Israeli College for Education, Shaanan.
Metatron (open-access journal)
An open-access, peer-reviewed journal of modern philology and the ancient imagination offering new vistas on the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Named after the mediating angel of Jewish mysticism, it is designed to open cutting-edge research to a broad intellectual community.
Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas
Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas is a quarterly print and digital journal of longform essays that promote informed conversations and thoughtful disagreement.

General & inter-disciplinary databases

Search a database related to your topic. Our Subjects A-Z list organizes all of the topics studied at the University of Toronto.

Examples:

For the rights of women in Israel, try a women and gender studies database

For Jewish music in America, try a music database

For the history of Jewish emigration to Canada, try a historical or Canadian database

America: History & Life (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Major interdisciplinary source for American and Canadian history and culture.
Central and Eastern European Online Library
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archives hundreds of academic journals, including many in Jewish Studies, such as Jewish Quarterly Review and AJS Review. Note that JSTOR is an archive, so there is a firewall - use Summon for recent publications.
Summon search
Includes resources from over 80% of the library's article databases.
Google Scholar
Connect to U of T resources using this trick
Sociological Abstracts
International database of sociological literature. Coverage from 1953.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Major article database for world history from 1450 to the present. Note that it excludes Canada and the USA, which are covered by America: History and Life.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Major article index to journals in political science, international relations, law, and public administration.

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