The purpose of this Library is to help Students navigate the wealth of content related to Jewish Studies with links and descriptions. Although Google is a great tool, many useful materials do not come up in a simple google search.
You can book an appointment with our librarian using the form bellow. Just fill in your name and email address. He will get back to you in order set up the appointment.
You can also email him directly at library@woodmontcollege.edu
This site also has numerous tools for assistance in learning Tanach with commentators. One can search for a Passuk, get various commentators (Rishonim and Achronim) in word format and then copy and paste it in a document. It has many other useful tools and also texts relating to Rabbinic Literature and Halachah. A list of Hebrew texts can be found here, and English translations here.
– Currently this site has over 120,000 books/seforim. One can view the seforim and see the first 40 pages of each volume for free. To use the program with all its excellent search engines and more, costs money. There are various options including a pass for one day and the like. The many different tools are constantly being tweaked making it more and more helpful.
As a Woodmont College student you can access Otzar Hachochma here. For login information, please email the librarian.
Mikra’ot Gedolot Haketer– A project from Bar-Ilan University’s to produce an entirely new critical edition of the Mikra’ot Gedolot, including the biblical text and the biblical commentaries in fresh new critical editions, including textual variants from manuscripts.
This is a crowd-sourced site with numerous texts in Hebrew publicly available.
A new translation into Hebrew with original Arabic text and comments.
Works of the Ramhal transcribed.
Works of Chabad Chasidut transcribed.
The project includes, among other things, tens of thousands of works of poetry, fiction, translation, research (עיון) and essays in Hebrew from the Middle Ages to the present day from over 1,000 different authors.”
Currently this site has over sixty-thousand volumes which are fully downloadable in PDF format for no charge. Every few weeks more texts are uploaded. A search engine is available here.
This site has a few hundred titles downloadable in PDF format for free.
Proquest – The library has access to certain journals through Proquest. You can do a search for a title of an article or browse publications.
Worldcat is the world’s largest network of library content and services. When searching for a book, if you put in your location it will tell you if a library in your proximity has the book. If you click on View all editions and formats and select ebook, it will tell you which databases have access to the book.
Try using advance Google Books search.
Just type in a sentence from a text you’re working with and many times you will get an option to download a free version of the Text.
Even if you cannot download the whole text many times a small part of a book will be visible or a few pages which can also be very helpful.
Archive.org – Many books, some of out print, are available for download or to borrow.
Scribd – Books and articles can be viewed or downloaded from here. It requires uploading your own documents or subscribing.
JSTOR and Project MUSE – These databases are great sources for academic literature, books and articles. Most of them are only available through a subscription, but there are open access books and articles.
Academia is a platform for sharing academic research and hundreds of academics involved with Jewish studies have uploaded their research for free download here. Some people have started uploading materials of Academics from previous generations. This is a very useful database. The search works best when searching for the author. If the paper you want is not uploaded you can look for their email and write directly to them and ask them to send you a copy.
Asif (אסיף) – This site has many seforim, journals, articles and even doctorates all in Hebrew. It is constantly being updated. The material is all accessible and able to be downloaded for free. The material is also organized in topics.
Daat – This website has a wealth of Jewish related information, links, articles and books available for free.
National Library of Israel – This web site has an incredible wealth of information available for free.
It is possible to do a search in their combined catalogue Merhav (for a guide how to use it see here), or specifically use their bibliographic tool for books and articles – RAMBI. (RAMBI and other tools such as manuscripts and newspapers are included in Merhav.)
RAMBI 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. A Rambi record includes – in its abbreviated form: author, title, bibliographic information and access to the full text. Some articles have electronic versions to which the cataloging record links.
RAMBISH is the same concept as RAMBI, but for articles appearing in Orthodox journals. Some articles have electronic versions to which the cataloging record links.
This encyclopedia is excellent and available for free online.
The only resource of its kind, this encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. This website makes accurate, reliable, scholarly information about East European Jewish life accessible to everyone.
In recent years there has been an explosion of materials, lectures and the like in both audio and video formats made available online useful for Judaic Studies.
In recent years they have built an excellent platform with audio and video content. It’s very user friendly.
One section is called All Daf where one can find a wealth of lectures on the Talmud using different styles.
Worth pointing to is Reid Bites [here] from the noted lecturer, Rabbi Sruly Bornstein.
Another section is called All Parsha
Where there is a wealth of Lectures on the Weekly Parsha, all kinds of styles can be found there.
This useful site is described as follows:
…has more than thirty thousand classes and articles, most of them organized into many hundreds of series in all of the diverse fields of Torah study. This number includes articles and lessons in both English and Hebrew, written clearly and edited meticulously.
For a more extensive list of online resources see the following posts:
https://seforimblog.com/2022/03/guide-and-review-of-online-resources-2022-part-i/
https://seforimblog.com/2022/05/guide-and-review-of-online-resources-2022-part-ii/
https://seforimblog.com/2022/07/guide-and-review-of-online-resources-2022-part-iii/
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