Library News for Jewish Studies

BBC Archive: Witnessing the Holocaust: Personal Accounts of a Crime Against Humanity

 BBC: Witnessing the Holocaust

 This online BBC archive, Witnessing the Holocaust: Personal Accounts of a Crime   Against Humanity, has radio and television programs from 1945-2005, and documents from 1942-1945, that reveal the horrors and aftermath of the Holocaust. Visitors interested in listening to or watching video or audio programs can scroll down the page to view the 17 programs available.  The programs with a blue speaker icon next to the title denote a radio program, and those with a right-facing arrow next to the title indicate that there is a video available.  Each program is accompanied by a written synopsis of the program, as well as a section entitled "Did You Know?" that has little known facts pertaining to the subject of the program. The radio programs range from a 1945 four-minute broadcast from a Canadian reporter entitled "Gestapo in Holland", to an almost hour-long 2003 broadcast called "Marianne Grant", about the artist's heart-wrenching story of having to paint for Dr. Mengele at Auschwitz. The video programs include a 1989 interview with "Simon Wiesenthal" as well as a 2005 broadcast, "Grandchild of the Holocaust", about a grandson and his grandmother who was the only Holocaust survivor of her family. (text from site homepage)

AquaBrowser Coming Soon to WU Libraries

You can now preview AquaBrowser, new library software that will enhance searching and retrieval in the WU Catalog. Click on the "Take a Tour to see new  features" link below.

Test Drive the NEW
Books In Print 2.0!

Take a Tour to see new features

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ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection

Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 1,700 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 95 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.

To investigate the content I suggest clicking on Browse and then clicking on by Subject.

RefWorks - create, store, organize and share citations

RefWorks can manage your citations and create bibliographies in a number of styles. I am currently a novice user of the software, but I am happy to help you with any questions you may have regarding its use.

RefWorks WU Guide is a good starting point.

• More about using RefWorks at Washington University
• RefWorks Quick Start Guide
• RefWorks Tutorial
• Frequently asked questions about RefWorks (PDF)
• Creating Non-English or Multi-Language Bibliographies
  
• Converting References from Other Software Programs (PDF)

Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive

Since it's inception in 2002, the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive has been adding new recordings at a significant rate. It now has over 10,518 tracks of music. One must register to listen to any of them but this is just a formality - use but not downloading is encouraged.

 

 

 

BibleWorks7 CD

is a tightly integrated collection of software tools designed specifically for analyzing the texts of the Bible. BibleWorks was designed from the ground up to provide the best possible computer tools for scholarly study of the Bible. Included in the base package are capabilities for search and analysis, copying text to your word processor, displaying and comparing texts; 112 Bible translations spanning 30 languages; 14 original language texts; 18 morphology databases; 12 Greek lexicons and dictionaries; 5 Hebrew lexicons and dictionaries; 30 practical reference works (Greek/Hebrew sound files, Bible maps, critical apparati, NT diagrams); and more. Package includes five program CDs, including online manual and video tutorials CD.

Here is a link to the full content of the CDs

http://www.bibleworks.com/content/full.html

New Reference Ebook

Encyclopaedia Judaica

• Edition 2, 2006
• Published by Macmillan Reference USA

The landmark Encyclopaedia Judaica, lauded as the standard work on Judaism since first appearing in the early 1970s, has been extensively revised and expanded for this long-awaited new edition. Nothing compromised, included are more than 21,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. Expanding the scope and relevance of this invaluable set are more than 2,600 brand-new entries, many focusing on gender issues and New World geographic areas of the United States, Canada and Latin America. Even more clarity and substance is incorporated through the updating of some 11,000 entries across all topics. The Holocaust segment alone features more than 50 entirely new articles. Scholars, general readers and students alike will use this 22-volume set. Extensive cross-referencing and large subject index are just two of the many features making this huge set easy to use. Quick references are also facilitated through place-name lists, a chronology, a Hasidism chart, lists of newspapers and periodicals. More than 600 maps, charts, tables, photographs, illustrations and other visuals concisely illustrate key textual elements, and among other features making this scholarly work accessible, are entry-specific bibliographies to help guide further research. Included in each volume is an 8-page full color insert that provides a rich and thematic illustration of the many aspects of Jewish life and culture, as well as a record of the physical development of the State of Israel.

As described by Thompson-Gale publishers

International Medieval Bibliography

International Medieval Bibliography, c. 400- 1500 (1967- ) International Medieval Institute, University of Leeds.

Index to journal articles and miscellaneous publications (conference proceedings, essay collections) on the Middle Ages published worldwide. Includes citations on over 300,000 articles on the Middle Ages in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.  Subject coverage includes - History, Religion, Literature, Medieval Studies, Philosophy.  Time period - c. 400 C.E. to 1500. Languages: English, German, French.

These searches indicate somewhat the scope of the database -

Subject search: "Hebrew and Jewish Studies" = 5426 hits

Subject: "Theology and Biblical Study" and Fulltext: jews or judaism = 200 hits

Fulltext: jerusalem and pilgrimage = 169 hits

Torah is a subject term but not Jews or Judaism

Studia Rosenthaliana

Studia Rosenthaliana is the world's only scholarly journal on the history, culture and heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands. Establised in 1967 by the late Dr L. Fuks and covering a variety of subjects such as the history of the Portuguese Jews in the Low Countries, topics on the local history of Jewish communities and on Jewish art in the Netherlands, Studia Rosenthaliana includes contributions by scholars such as Jonathan Israel, Yosef Kaplan and Herman P. Salomon.

The new Studia Rosenthaliana is published in English only and contains two or three extensive articles in the field of history, culture and heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands, together with a new section of historical sources. The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, the Amsterdam Municipal Archives and the Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum publish from their holdings and announce new acquisitions. This section is also designed for related bibliographical, art-historical of archival studies and for the publication of unpublished historical sources in the various languages used by the Jews of the Netherlands. The Notarial Records relating to the Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam form an integral part of this section.  More... Studia Rosenthaliana

Empire Online (1492-1962)

Empire Online (1492-1962)  Over 70,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material, 1492-1962, taken from libraries and archives around the world.  Five thematic sections on Africa, the Americas, Australia, Oceania and South Asia are covered with essays by leading scholars.

Subject searching is facilitated by three indexes: Topic, Place, and Name. Perusing these categories I found the terms Jews, Judaism, Arab Jewish Conflict, and Palestine.  Searching on any one of these terms brings up some but not many documents.