jewish studies

texts

• Hebrew Bible, Talmudim etc. (Machon Memre)
• Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Catherine Hayes’ lecture)
• The Bible through Art
• What is the Talmud? Articles, video clips etc., Yeshiva University
• Internet Jewish Studies Sourcebook

jewish history on the web

• Web portals at the Center for Online Jewish Studies
• Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism by Elliot Wolfson &  Hartley Lechter
• Jews and Judaism in the Greco-Roman period by Steven Fine with Stanley Mirvis
• Dead Sea Scrolls—Lawrence H. Schiffman
• Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, 1000-1500 by Robert Chazan with Abby Kornfeld & Eytan Zadoff
• Jews in the Early Modern Period, 1450-1750 by Magda Teter & Miriam Bodian
  A life apart–website accompanying PBS documentary on Hasidic life
• Internet Jewish Studies Sourcebook
• Internet Women’s Studies Sourcebook
• Jewish learning–Brief introductory essays to Jewish practice
• Online exhibitions on US Holocaust  Memorial Museum (Rescue and Resistance; Children; U.S.; Antisemitism; Persecution; Aftermath; Camps; Ghettos; Propaganda; Documentation and Evidence; Remembrance/ Commemoration/Legacy; General Reference)

online exhibitions

Scripture and Schism (Karaite and Samaritan Treasures), JTS 2001

bibliographic tools

• RAMBI, a searchable online database of articles in Jewish Studies
• J-Stor (full text searchable database, via Cooper Lib online)
• ATLA (only on paper in Cooper Library Z 8105.56 .M24 2007)
• Index Islamicus (only in Cooper Library Z 7835 .M6 L632)
• Feminae (Medieval Women and Gender Index)
• Tom Head’s links to hagiography and the Middle Ages in general
• Center for Jewish History (Catalogue for the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Yeshiva University Museum; online catalogues; interactive bibliography of women in daily life).
• Feinberg e-Collection at Spertus College (subscription necessary)
• The USC Research Guide to the Chicago Manual of Style (pdf)
• USC suggestions for research guides in Religious Studies

jews & judaism in the Carolinas

• Jewish Federation of Columbia
• Online exhibition at the College of Charleston
• Listen to NPR on Jews in South Carolina (ca. 5 min)