The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book is a bibliography of all types of Jewish literature published in Hebrew characters, including different Jewish languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino. During the last 400 years individual scholars compiled bibliographies of Hebrew and Jewish literature. In 1959 Hebrew University and Mosad Bialik together with the Department of [...]
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DATABASE IN FOCUS: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HEBREW BOOK
Thursday, April 25th, 2013YUFind Saves You Time
Friday, January 25th, 2013Finding information for your next paper or presentation is now a whole lot easier. “How so?” you ask. Because of YUFind, a Google-like interface that provides full-text content from many of our collections including journal articles, reference sources, newspapers, and even Hebrew publications. No more need to search numerous databases. One search accesses all of [...]
Social Media Now in Factiva
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012Do you think you understand the basic Fiscal Cliff concept but need more information to discuss it intelligently? Search blogs, twitter, and other social media on the Fiscal Cliff in Factiva. In November alone there were over 13,000 web news entries, 15,000 blogs, and 1,600 board posts on the subject! To find social media in [...]
Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics: Database of the Month
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics website is a Hebrew and English language database that, according to its own description, provides statistical information about “the State and its population in the fields of health, wellbeing, education, economy etc., as well as on the subjects of physical, geographic and ecological indices.” Drop-down menus on the left side [...]
Compact Memory : Database of the Month
Tuesday, June 5th, 2012Compact Memory is a German language database that provides PDF’s of articles from Jewish German periodicals from the 18th and 19th centuries. There are two ways to navigate the database. You can use the “Bibliothek” which lists all the periodical titles in alphabetical order. Click on a title, publication year and then the desired volume. [...]
Rambish- Database of the Month:
Monday, May 7th, 2012Rambish – Reshimat Ma’amarim shel Bene ha-Yeshivot (Index to Articles in Yeshiva Publications) is a growing Hebrew language database that indexes Torah articles from journals published by individual yeshivot and articles whose main readership is the yeshivah community. It is this particular focus which differentiates Rambish from its punned eponym, the more academically oriented Rambi. [...]
RAMBI Subject Searching Upgrade
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012Sylviane Stampfer, editor of RAMBI, The Index to Articles in Jewish Studies, recently announced that SUBJECT searching in RAMBI is being upgraded so that searching a subject in either English or Hebrew will retrieve both Hebrew and European language articles. The change is being introduced gradually and is expected to be completed by the summer. [...]
Jewish Studies Research Guides
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011Two new research guides that focus on Jewish Studies were recently published by YU librarians. In “Finding an article for Jewish Studies,” Moshe Schapiro explains how to use the catalog and databases to identify articles on a Jewish Studies topic and how to find the texts of the articles. Zvi Erenyi, in his guide, “Ancient [...]
New on JSTOR: ציון ,תרביץ and Hebrew Search
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011The full texts of תרביץ from 1929 to 2006 and of ציון from 1926 to 2005 are now available online to YU authenticated users, thanks to the Library’s participation in JSTOR’s Hebrew Journals Pilot Project. These journals, along with מגמות and אופקים בגיאוגרפיה , were digitized in a collaboration between JSTOR, the University of Haifa [...]
Important tools added to Otzar HaHochma
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011Next time you go into Otzar HaHochma, look at the top middle of the screen. You can now limit the books in the book list on the bottom right of the screen by masechta or parsha. Click parshiyot ha-Torah and focus in on the weekly Parsha. Or choose masechtot ha-shas and choose the masechta and [...]