Databases and Links
Online databases (access from all computers at the university)
- Responsa-Project (database for Bible and rabbinical literature)
- Lieberman Institute (Talmud text database)
- Encyclopedia Judaica Online
- www.toledot-yeshu.net
Pre-installed programs (access from the computers on the ground floor of the library)
- Bible Works 10
- Stuttgart Electronic Bible (SESB)
Specialized Information Service Jewish Studies
The FID Jewish Studies offers a variety of products. For initial registration, please select the option "continue from step 2/ without SSO" and select "Heidelberg, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien" as your home institution.
Daily newspaper Haaretz
Articles from the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz can be made available to HfJS students.
Please send an e-mail with a link to the desired article to library(at)hfjs.eu. You will then receive a PDF back. You can use the Hebrew and English editions.
Journals
- Ashkenaz
- European Judaism - A Journal for the New Europe (online access at the computers of the HfJS)
- Hikma
- Jewish Studies Quartlery
- Journal of Jewish Education (online access at the computers of the HfJS)
- Journal of Israeli History (online access at the computers of the HfJS)
Freely accessible databases and newspapers
- Compactmemory - Internet archive of Jewish periodicals
- Rambi - Index of Articles
- Tacheles
- Spitz (Hebrew)
- Maagarim (Hebrew dictionary for early texts)
- Handbook on Judaica Provenance Research: Ceremonial Objects
Further links
- Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory
- Germania Judaica - Cologne Library for the History of German Jewry e.V.
- University of Frankfurt am Main, Special Subject Collection of the DFG, Judaism
- Free University of Berlin, Jewish Studies and Jewish Studies in Germany
- The Jewish National and University Library
- MENALIB - The Specialized Information Service (FID) for Middle Eastern, North African and Islamic Studies