Resource Guide:
Judaism and Modern Israel

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The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• National Library of Israel Digital Collections
• Jewish Virtual Library
• Institute for Palestine Studies
• Palestine Chronicle
• Haaretz
• Jerusalem Post
• Schusterman Center for Israel Studies
• CIA World Factbook Israel
• Chabad.org
• A Living Library of Jewish Texts

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Commandments, Six hundred and thirteen
• Religious Zionism
• Women in Judaism
• Judaism--20th century
• Judaism and politics
• Judaism--Customs and practices
• Judaism--Doctrines
• Judaism--Hasidic rite
• Judaism--Liturgy
• Judaism--Palestine
• Judaism--Prayers and devotions
• Judaism--Sephardic rite--Customs and practices
• Israel-Arab Border Conflicts, 1949-
• Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
• Israel--Armed Forces
• Israel--Boundaries
• Israel--Emigration and immigration
• Israel--Ethnic relations
• Israel--Military policy
• Israel--Politics and government
• Palestine
• Balfour Declaration

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• AP News
• ArchiveGrid
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• Films on Demand
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• JURN
• Military & Government Collection
• Newspaper Source Plus
• OAISter
• Oxford Reference
• Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
• Proquest Major Dailies
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Statista
• Wiley Online Library
• Women’s Studies International

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Israel studies : IS
• Israel affairs
• Israel Studies Review
• Israel Studies Forum
• Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics, and Culture
• Journal of Palestine Studies
• Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
• Women in Judaism
• Journal of Judaism & Civilization
• Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience
• Quest : Issues in Contemporary Jewish History
• G'vanim
• Jewish Quarterly
• Meorot : A Journal of Modern Orthodox Discourse
• Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues
• Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.