J300: Religion and Nationalism in Modern Jewish History

Here are some sources that you'll find helpful for your writing assignments this semester.

Did you get here through Oncourse? Some online resources don't work very well in Oncourse, so you may want to go directly to this page: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1003086

Need more help with your research? Contact the history librarian, Celestina Savonious-Wroth (cewroth@indiana.edu) or the Jewish Studies librarian, Noa Wahrman (nwahrman@indiana.edu). You'll also find many additional resources on the History pages and the Jewish Studies pages.

IUCAT - the IU Libraries online catalog. Use it to find books and other materials in the IU Libraries. Tip: try the Advanced Keyword Search, using zionism or jewish nationalism as subject words. Use sources as a subject word to find primary sources. Make sure to select English as the language if you can't read some of the other languages this material might be in.
WorldCat - a "supercatalog" of library collections all over the US. If you find something in it that's not available at IU, use the "request materials through ILL (Interlibrary loan)" option.
Google Books Search / HathiTrust Digital Library - Tip: in Google Books, if the book you want is not available online, use the "Find in a library" link to get back to IUCAT and/or interlibrary loan.
OneSearch@IU - use to search for books AND articles at the same time

Judaic Scholar Digital Reference Library - a collection of digitized reference works and core scholarship in Jewish Studies (all full text)
Encyclopaedia Judaica - good for overviews of a topic, includes suggestions for further reading
Biography and Genealogy Master Index, and Biography in Context - these provide access to reliable biographical information. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is very useful if the person you're researching has some connection with the United Kingdom (eg Arthur James Balfour).

RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - a selective bibliography of articles in Jewish studies compiled from thousands of periodicals in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages. Note that the links to fulltext will only work if you are on campus or logged into IU-VPN, AND we have an online subscription to the source journal --otherwise, use IUCAT to find articles from print sources.
Index to Jewish Periodicals - access to articles in English-language Jewish journals, 1988-present (may be useful for primary sources as well)
Historical Abstracts - access to research on historical topics. Includes articles in academic journals, book reviews and other reliable secondary sources.
ATLA Religion Database - access to reasearch on religious studies topics.
JSTOR - giant fulltext database of the most important academic journals in a broad range of fields

Current newspapers' web sites, eg, nytimes.com, haaretz.com, wsj.com, ynetnews.com - bear in mind that some newspapers, such as the New York Times, limit the number of articles you can view online. Try the link on the Library's Major U.S. Newspapers page if you can't find what you're looking for through the free sites.
LexisNexis Academic - giant news database, includes newspapers, news magazines and radion and television transcripts
Factiva - similar to LexisNexis but covers some different news sources
Readers Guide Full Text Mega - searchable fulltext of popular US magazines

Television News Archive Indexes - searchable transcripts (and some streaming video) of US television news, 1968-present
ProQuest Historical Newspapers - searchable fulltext and page images of major US newspapers such as the New York Times and Chicago Tribune, going back their earliest issues
Times Digital Archive (The Times, London) - The London Times, 1789-1985
Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003
Readers Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 - access to popular US magazines. Useful for a sense of what the average American might have known about what was going on in the world. Not fulltext: use the IU-Link button to locate fulltext or print originals.
Periodicals Index Online - access to an international collections of journals and magazines. Useful if you're interested in an academic/"highbrow" perspective on past events or ideas. Partly fulltext: use the IU-Link button if you don't see fulltext.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports 1941-1996 - transcripts of international news broadcasts and publications, translated into English

Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970 - digitized collection of documents from the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers
Post War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950 - materials from the British National Archives and other collections, documenting the movements of displaced persons after World War II
Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) and Digital National Security Archives - two digitized, searchable collections of declassified US government documents (including many that relate to Zionism/Israel)
Palestine statehood committee papers - 19 reels of microfilm containing correspondence, memoranda, reports, publications, advertisements, and clippings related to five pro-Zionist committees active in the United States from 1939 to 1949. (Wells Library Microforms, DS125 .P244)
Reports of the [Zionist Organization]Executives submitted to the ... Zionist Congress (1921-19451) - (Wells Library Microforms, DS149.A4 Z622)
Confidential U.S. State Department central files : Palestine and Israel : internal affairs, 1945-1949 and foreign affairs, 1945-1949 - 29 reels of microfilmed government reports (Wells Library Microforms, DS119.7 .C65149 1984)
Compact Memory: Internetarchiv juedischer Periodika - collection of German-language Jewish publications from 1880s to 1930s. (Search interface is in German too.)