Writing and Research Guides
Simon Rabinovitch’s Student Writing Guide
Simon Rabinovitch’s Guide to Getting Your Research Rolling
Boston University History Department Writing Guide
Online Resources for Research in Jewish Studies and History
Important Websites and Resources Accessible through BU
- BU library research guide for “Judaism”
- Encyclopedia Judaica (online version accessible through BU library catalog)
- J-Store, Project Muse, and Academic Search Premier (databases of full-text articles)
- Proquest Dissertation and Theses Database
- Proquest Historical Newspapers
- Inter-Library Loan (ILL)
- Boston Library Consortium
- Worldcat
Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
Websites of Important Archives and Libraries (all of which include online exhibits and materials)
- American Jewish Committee Archives
- American Jewish Archives (Jacob Rader Marcus Center)
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Central Zionist Archives
- Archives of the Jabotinsky Institute
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
- Leo Baeck Institute for the study of the history and culture of German-Speaking Jewry (New York)
- The Jewish National and University Library and the JNUL digitized book repository
- National Library of Russia
- Einstein Archives Online (Hebrew U.)
- New York Public Library Digitized Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Books
Websites for Historical Jewish Newspapers
- Tel Aviv University Jewish Press Site
- Internet Archive of German-Jewish Periodicals (Compact Memory)
Other Relevant Websites with Digital Sources
- Judaic Europeana
- The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe online edition (includes documents and images from the YIVO archives)
- The Shtetl Economic History Project (created by Prof. Tom Glick through a grant by the BU Humanities Foundation)
- The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History
- The Center for Jewish History (in New York)
- Early Modern Workshop: Jewish History Resources
- Yad Vashem
- Fordham Jewish history source books
- Project Ben Yehuda (Hebrew only)
- The Jewish Virtual Library
- Recordings of European Jewish Music
- FAU Judaica Sound Archives
- British Library Voices of the Holocaust Online Exhibit
- Scholars network on the Jewish Labor Bund
- Soviet Jewish Culture Oral History Project
- The Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA)
- The National Center for Jewish Film (Brandeis University)
- Saint Petersburg Encyclopaedia
Other Useful Online Research Guides
