Jewish Studies represents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Jews, their history, religion, language, thought, culture, literature, and music.
The Tulane University Jewish Studies program was recently ranked 9th in the nation.
New acquisitions include Jewish American Newspapers as follows: The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857-1922), The American Israelite (1854-2000), The Jewish Advocate (1905-1990), Jewish Exponent (1887-1990),
Ethnic American Newspapers features more than 130 fully searchable newspapers in 10 languages from 25 states, with an emphasis on Americans of Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak and Welsh descent.
BJPA offers a vast collection of policy-relevant research and analysis on Jewish life to the public, free of charge, with holdings spanning from 1900 until today.
The Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR) was organized in London in August 1938 as a result of the Evian Conference of July 1938, which had been called by President Roosevelt to consider the problem of racial, religious, and political refugees from central Europe.
Jewish Life in America provides a window onto Jewish communities in America from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to today. It allows you to search and explore six major organizational collections and twenty-four collections of personal papers from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.
A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and the study of Israel. RAMBI is based largely on the collections of the National Library of Israel.
Social Explorer “contains over 18,000 maps, hundreds of profile reports, 40 billion data elements, 335,000 variables and 220 years of data”; it also includes religious census information It can be used to locate census tract boundary information from 1790 to the present.
