Guides to Hebrew Literature
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The Epic of Gilgamesh - from the Cambridge Companion to the Epic
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From an Antique Land: an Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2011While many people are familiar with the ancient Israelite literature recorded in the Hebrew Bible, most Near Eastern literature remains a mystery. From an Antique Land lifts the veil from these fascinating writings, explaining the ancient stories in the context of their cultures. -
Hidden Riches: a Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East
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Location: Theology Library Open Stacks BS1184 .H39 2014 and OnlinePublication Date: 2014This study considers the historical, cultural, and literary significance of some of the most important Ancient Near East (ANE) texts that illuminate the Hebrew Bible. -
From Agnon to Oz : studies in modern Hebrew literature
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Location: Mugar Stacks PJ5021 .B346 1996Publication Date: 1996This volume is a collection of ten essays and seven reviews on modern Hebrew literature. Subjects include an analysis of a number of journal manifestoes, an interpretation of several poems on King Saul, an essay on Yehuda Amichai's early works, a piece on the image of the Arab in Hebrew literature, a note on the German literary background of the Agnon story, and changing structures in Amir Gilboa's Holocaust poetry. -
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature
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Location: Mugar Stacks PS153.J4 C36 2003Publication Date: 2003The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. -
Modern Jewish Literatures
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2010Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared language--though works in Hebrew or Yiddish are almost certainly included--and the field is so diverse that it cannot be contained within the bounds of one literary category. Each of the fifteen essays collected in Modern Jewish Literatures takes on the above question by describing a movement across boundaries--between languages, cultures, genres, or spaces.
Hebrew Literature - Anthologies
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Hebrew Classics: a journey through Israel's timeless fiction and poetry
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2012In this book, Dvir Abramovich brings together a batch of timeless classical Hebrew novels, short stories, and poems, and furnishes readers with commentaries and critical readings of each landmark work. -
Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature: a reader
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2013Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century--fiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume makes this material accessible to English speakers for the first time, offering a selection of Jewish fiction from France, Great Britain, and the German-speaking world. -
Poets on the Edge: an anthology of contemporary Hebrew poetry
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2008Poets on the Edge introduces four decades of Israel s most vigorous poetic voices. Selected and translated by author Tsipi Keller, the collection showcases a generous sampling of work from twenty-seven established and emerging poets, bringing many to readers of English for the first time.
Finding Articles
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BU Libraries Search This link opens in a new window
BU Libraries Search provides a single place to search for a wide variety of research material provided by the library. Resources covered by the search includes books and eBooks, journals, scores and sheet music, video and audio recordings, and other physical and electronic items held by the library. Coverage encompasses materials relating to the prehistoric and antique world through to the present.
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American Jewish Newspapers This link opens in a new windowAmerican Jewish Newspapers provides scanned, searchable articles from four 19th and 20th century newspapers: The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857-1922); The Jewish Advocate (1905-1990); The American Israelite (1854-2000); and Jewish Exponent (1887-1990). Rights for use by Boston University community supported by the Ted Kyrios Memorial Book Fund.
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Historical Jewish PressThis site contains a collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods. We display digital versions of each paper, making it possible to view the papers in their original layout. Full-text search is also available for all content published over the course of each newspaper’s publication.
Literature Databases
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Literature Online This link opens in a new window
LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
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Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Contains critical and biographical essays on authors currently living or who died after Jan. 1, 2000.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProject Muse provides digital access to scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. The scholarly content comes from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. The full text resources include journal articles, book reviews and book chapters.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations from worldwide publications: periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.
Humanities/Social Science Databases
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ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window
An index to journal articles, essays, and book reviews in the field of religion. Covers biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues.
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Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window
Index to literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, and Muslim minorities elsewhere. Includes journal articless, conference proceedings, monographs, and book reviews.
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America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
Covers the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to present times; indexes journal articles, book titles and chapters, reviews from numerous multilingual sources; all abstracts in English.
e-Text Collections
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The Sefaria LibrarySefaria is a non-profit organization dedicated to building the future of Jewish learning in an open and participatory way. We are assembling a free living library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation.
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Internet Sacred Text Archive - Texts of JudaismThis site is a freely available archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, where possible, in the original language.
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HebrewBooks.orgCollection of Sefarim, Hebrew and Yiddish texts - Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books.
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Digital Yiddish LibraryComprehensive collection of Yiddish literature that includes works of fiction, memoirs, poetry, plays, short stories, science manuals, cookbooks, primers, and more.
Literary Biography
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Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new windowA bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.
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Literature Online This link opens in a new window
LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
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Literature and War: conversations with Israeli and Palestinian writers
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Location: Mugar Stacks DS119.76 .I7313 2009Publication Date: 2008When confronting the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, journalist Runo Isaksen found himself wondering: How can literature play a role in helping the one side see the other? To answer this question, he interviewed fifteen pre-eminent Israeli and Palestinian writers, asking them what role literature may play in creating dialogue, ending war, and building peace. -
Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish literature in the twentieth century
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2011Diasporic Modernisms illuminates how the relationships between migrant writers and dispersed readers were registered in the innovative practices of modernist prose fiction. The Jewish writers discussed - including S. Y. Abramovitsh, Yosef Chaim Brenner, Dovid Bergelson, Leah Goldberg, Gabreil Preil, and Kadia Molodowsky - embraced diaspora as a formal literary strategy to reflect on the historical conditions of Jewish language culture. -
Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
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Location: Mugar Reference X DS56 .D5 2000Publication Date: 2000The earliest farms, cities, governments, legal codes, and alphabets developed in the ancient Near East. Four major religions--Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam--began in the region. The only single-volume dictionary to embrace the whole of the ancient Near East, this major reference work covers Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the Levant, and the Arabian peninsula from the earliest times, through the Old Testament period, until the fall of Babylon to the Persians in 539 B.C.
Bibliographies
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations from worldwide publications: periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.
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Oxford Bibliographies: Biblical Studies This link opens in a new windowOxford Bibliographies: Biblical Studies is guide to the current scholarship in the field, written and reviewed by academic experts, with original commentary and annotations. Covers a wide range of topic from archaeology, Egyptology, Assyriology, and linguistics through textual, historical, and sociological studies, to literary theory, feminist studies, philosophy, and theology.
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RAMBI – The Index of Articles on Jewish StudiesRAMBI is a selective bibliography of academic articles covering all of the fields of Jewish studies as well as the study of Eretz Israel and the State of Israel.
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Bibliography of the Hebrew BookThe Bibliography of Hebrew Book includes a bibliography of the Israeli National: Registration and detailed description of all Jewish literature printed in Hebrew characters, for all types and in all languages.
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Judaica Reference Sources : a selective, annotated bibliographic guide
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2004Virtually every aspect of Jewish life, knowledge, history, culture, religion, and contemporary issues is covered in this annotated, bibliographic guide.
