Jewish Studies

Subscription Journals in Jewish Studies 

• AJS Review Scholarly journal of the Association for Jewish Studies. Electronic coverage from 1976
• American Jewish History  American Jewish History is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Jewish Historical Society. The journal was established in 1892 and focuses on all aspects of the history of Jews in the United States.
• Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Polin, established in 1986 by the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, has acquired a well-deserved reputation for publishing authoritative material on all aspects of Polish Jewry. Contributions are drawn from many disciplines—history, politics, religious studies, literature, linguistics, sociology, art, and architecture—and from a wide variety of viewpoints.
• Religious Education* is the journal of the Religious Education Association: An Association of Professors, Practitioners, and Researchers in Religious Education, offers an interfaith forum for exploring religious identity, formation, and education in faith communities, academic disciplines and institutions, and public life and the global community. 
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COMING SOON: A comprehensive list of Jewish Studies journals found in the subscription databases.

News and Current Events

• Forward
• Hakol
• Jewish Community Voice
• Jewish Exponent*
• Jewish Telegraphic Agency
• Moment Magazine

• Tablet Magazine

• The Times of Israel

 *See "Subscription Databases" below for access to JE from 1887-1990

​​​​​​Subscription Databases

•  Academic Search Premier 

  • A popular resource found in many scholarly settings worldwide, Academic Search Premier is a leading multidisciplinary research database. It provides acclaimed full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources. More than 3,100 active full-text journals and magazines. Nearly 2,800 active full-text peer-reviewed journals

• Bar Ilan Responsa Project
  • An electronic collection of Torah texts, compiled and made searchable by Bar-Ilan University. It includes the Hebrew Bible, various commentaries, and Medieval through twentieth century Responsa.
•  Education Source 
  • Designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews and over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
• Encyclopedia Judaica 
  • Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures, Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd edition is important to scholars, general readers and students. (CONTACT LIBRARIAN FOR ACCESS)
• HeinOnline
  • HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 186 million pages and 287,000 titles of historical and government documents and provides comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,800 law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of academic journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. 
• Jewish Exponent (1887-1990)
  • The Jewish Exponent is a weekly community newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the second-oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the United States. Digital access provided by ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
• JSTOR
  • The JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection is a single, comprehensive collection that provides access to all licensed archival journal and primary source content on JSTOR including Arts & Sciences I-XV, Hebrew Journals, and the Jewish Studies Archive.
• Project MUSE Social Sciences Collection
  • Project MUSE hosts both current and archival content from several hundred peer-reviewed journals across a large range
    of subjects within the social sciences, including education, leadership and management, human rights, international affairs, and religious and ethnic studies.
• ProQuest Theses and Dissertations Global
  • PQDT Global offers millions of works from thousands of universities. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.
•  Teacher Reference Center 
  • Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

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Gratz College Academic Commons

Academic Commons is the home for all Gratz ETDs since 2019. When browsing the collection, use the filter options and search bar to limit your results or scroll though all items. Click the title of the item to open a new window and download the attachment.

Graduate students are required to submit an electronic copy (ETD) of the final version of their successfully defended thesis or dissertation to the Tuttleman Library before they are permitted to graduate. These works will be added to the Academic Commons one to two weeks after reception, and made available to current students and faculty.

The Tuttleman Library does not accept or lend physical copies of student manuscripts.

Dissertation Editors and Typists 

It is acceptable for a doctoral student to use a typist or an editor; however, Gratz College does not endorse any particular person for this task. It is up to the student to make sure that anyone they hire is familiar with the latest APA guidelines and the Gratz College dissertation template. Editors/typists must not make any changes that affect the content of the applied dissertation, or assist in the investigation of the research, or writing of the report. Correction of grammar and syntax is permissible.

Select local and national unendorsed editors are listed below. 

• Nancy V. Daniels
• Laurie Stephenson
• Dissertation I Editors 

Avoiding Plagiarism

When preparing all written work, great care must be taken to fully acknowledge the sources of all ideas, concepts, language and images (including drawings, designs, photographs, diagrams and charts).  All of these guidelines can be found in the APA Manual.

For specific questions, consult with a faculty member or librarian, but the following rules must be observed:  

• Any sequence of words appearing in essay which do not belong to the student must be enclosed in quotation marks and the source identified in a manner designated by the instructor.  

• A paraphrase should not be enclosed in quotation marks, but should be footnoted (cited) and the source given. 

 • An interpretation based on an identifiable source must be so attributed. 

Click here for Best Practices for Avoiding Plagiarism from the Purdue OWL 

Plagiarism is the "taking over the ideas, methods, or written words of another, without acknowledgment and with the intention that they be taken as the work of the deceiver," - American Association of University Professors

Code of Academic Responsibility  

Academic dishonesty includes such things as cheating, inventing false information or citations, plagiarism, inappropriate use of generative AI, and/or helping someone else commit an act of academic dishonesty. It is a serious violation of the norms of the academic community to appropriate the ideas of other people without credit or permission, and it is important to learn to discriminate between exploitation and the legitimate use of the ideas of others. The most general rule is that any use of another person’s ideas, whether the source is published or not, should be acknowledged fully and in detail, since disciplines show some differences on how this should be done.  

Students should refer to the Gratz style guide for writing for specific details.  

Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.)

Students in the Holocaust and Genocide and Jewish Studies programs are required to use the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). Therefore, the style of writing depends on the degree program and course subject matter or degree program, and the course syllabus and instructor should be the resource for clarification

The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. It is the indispensable reference for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice.

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) The material on this page focuses primarily on one of the two CMOS documentation styles: the Notes-Bibliography System (NB), which is used by those working in literature, history, and the arts.

• Notes and Bibliography: Sample Citations

Avoiding Plagiarism 

Plagiarism is using someone else’s ideas or words without giving them proper credit. Plagiarism can range from unintentional (forgetting to include a source in a bibliography) to intentional (buying a paper online, using another writer’s ideas as your own to make your work sound smarter). Beginning writers and expert writers alike can all plagiarize. Understand that plagiarism is a serious charge in academia, but also in professional settings. 

Purdue Online Writing Lab as created an excellent overview of plagiarism and how to avoid it. 

Jewish Studies Podcasts

• Jewish History Matters
• Unorthodox
• Adventures in Jewish Studies 

Interfaith

• Interfaith Voices
• Interfaith-ish
• A Jew and A Gentile walk into a Bar . . . Mitzvah 

Modern Hebrew

• Yours Truly or בינינו

  Set of supplementary materials for students at the novice and intermediate levels developed at The University of Texas at Austin by Esther Raizen. The vignettes themselves are available as sound files, and most of the exercises require repetitive listening. Each unit presents up to ten keywords, available both in text format and as sound files. The final exercises in each unit focus on comprehension, the ability to identify and define the main themes of the vignettes, and creative writing. 

• Hebrew Language at the University of Texas at Austin

  An overview of Hebrew resources at UT-Austin including tools developed for the Modern Hebrew Project. The Modern Hebrew Project, which produced open resource tools for the study of Modern Hebrew language and linguistics, was initiated at the University of Texas Linguistics Research Center in the late 1990s, and some of the materials developed within that framework are still available through this site. 

Biblical Hebrew

• Biblical Hebrew for Beginners

  Introduction to the basic grammar of Biblical Hebrew. Our approach is descriptive in that we highlight phenomena that a learner who accesses the Hebrew Bible may observe. We expect engagement at the novice level, and therefore focus on identifying, listing, and grouping as the tasks we expect the learner to be able to complete. We also expect the learner to recognize a small number of words and phrases with their meanings. We do not make an attempt to describe linguistic phenomena in historical terms, nor do we involve the learner in the scholarly discourse on Biblical Hebrew.