2000 books and more : an annotated and selected bibliography of Jewish history and thought / edited by Jonathan Kaplan.
Author: Kaplan, Jonathan.
Imprint: Jerusalem : Magnes Press : Hebrew University, c1983.
Description: xviii, 483, 16 p. ; 23 cm.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call No.: Z6366.K330 1983

Accumulated index of Jewish bibliographical periodicals / by Robert Dán ; foreword by Alexander Scheiber.
Author: Dán, Róbert
Imprint: Budapest : Akadémiai Kiadó, 1979.
Description: 276 p. ; 25 cm.
Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Judaica Reference Collection. Call No.: Z6366.D350

Bibliography of Jewish bibliographies.
Author: Shunami, Shlomo.
Imprint: Jerusalem : Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1965.
Description: xxiv, 997, xxii p. ; 25 cm.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call No.: Z7070.A1S5011

Bibliography of Jewish bibliographies : supplement to 2d ed. enl. 1965 / by Shlomo Shunami.
Author: Shunami, Shlomo
Imprint: Jerusalem : Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1975.
Description: xvii, 464, xvi p. ; 25 cm.
Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Judaica Reference Collection. Call No.: Z7070.A1S5011 Suppl.

Index to Jewish periodicals.
Imprint: [Cleveland Heights, etc., Index to Jewish Periodicals, etc.]
Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call No.: Z6367.I38

Jewish book world.
Imprint: [New York, N.Y.] : JWB Jewish Book Council, 1982-
Description: v. ; 28 cm.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call No.: Z6367.J45

Judaica Americana : a bibliography of publications to 1900 / compiled by Robert Singerman ; sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion ; foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna.
Author: Singerman, Robert.
Imprint: New York : Greenwood Press, c1990.
Description: 2 v. (xxxiv, 1335 p.) ; 25 cm.
Contents: v. 1. Chronological file 1676 to 1889 -- v. 2. Chronological file 1890 to 1900. Union list of nineteenth-century Jewish serials published in the United States.
Series: Bibliographies and indexes in American history no. 14
Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Judaica Reference Collection. Call No.: Z6373.U5S58 1990

Judaica reference sources : a selective, annotated bibliographic guide / Charles Cutter, Micha Falk Oppenheim.
Author: Cutter, Charles.
Imprint: Juneau, Alaska, USA : Denali Press, c1993.
Description: 224 p.
Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Judaica Reference Collection. Call No.: Z6366.C870 1993

Of making many books : an annotated list of the books issued by the Jewish Publication Society of America, 1890-1952 / by Joshua Bloch.
Author: Bloch, Joshua, 1890-1957.
Imprint: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, 1953 [i.e., 1954].
Description: ix, 329 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call No.: Z6375.B65

Russian publications on Jews and Judaism in the Soviet Union, 1917-1967 : a bibliography / compiled by B. Pinkus and A. A. Greenbaum with an introd. by M. Altshuler. Edited by Mordecai Altshuler.
Author: Pinkus, Benjamin, 1933-
Imprint: Jerusalem : Society for Research on Jewish Communities, 1970.
Description: xvi, 273, 113 p. ; 22 cm.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call No.: Z6373.R9P66

The Schocken guide to Jewish books : where to start reading about Jewish history, literature, culture, and religion / edited by Barry W. Holtz.
Imprint: New York : Schocken Books, c1992.
Description: x, 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Ports of entry : introductory Jewish books / Lawrence Square Kushner -- The Bible and its world / Everett Fox -- The world of the Talmud / Eliezer Diamond -- The Jewish Middle Ages / Ivan G. Marcus -- The European experience : Jews confront modernity / Michael Stanislawski -- The American Jewish experience / Jonathan D. Sarna -- The Holocaust / Deborah E. Lipstadt -- Israel and Zionism / David Twersky -- Jewish mysticism / Elliot K. Ginsburg -- Jewish philosophy : medieval and modern / Michael Paley and Jacob J. Staub -- Jewish women's studies / Sue Levi Elwell -- Hebrew literature / Alan Mintz -- Yiddish literature / David G. Roskies -- The Jewish Novelist in America / Mark Shechner -- The bar/bat mitzvah book / Rita Berman Frischer.
Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Judaica Reference Collection. Call No.: Z6366.S39 1992

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This list is just a sampling of the Library's encyclopedias in the area of Jewish studies. To search for additional encyclopedias in the Library, go to the library catalog and search by subject keyword for "Jews Encyclopedias" or "Judaism Encyclopedias."

Encyclopaedia Judaica.
Imprint: Jerusalem : Encyclopaedia Judaica ; New York : Macmillan, [c1971-1982, v. 1, c1972]
Description: 17 v. : ill. (part col.) ; 32 cm.
Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call No.: f DS102.8.E56

Encyclopedia of Judaism / Sara E. Karesh and Mitchell M. Hurvitz.
Author: Karesh, Sara E.
Imprint: New York : Facts on File, c2006.
Description: xxxvi, 602 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series: Encyclopedia of world religions
Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call No.: BM50 .K37 2006

The encyclopaedia of Judaism / editored by Jacob Neusner, Alan J. Avery-Peck, William Scott Green.
Imprint: Leiden ; Boston : Brill ; New York : Distributed in the US and Canada by Continuum, 2000-2004.
Description: 5 v. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: v. 1. A-I -- v. 2. J-O -- v. 3. P-Z -- v. 4. Supplement 1 -- v. 5. Supplement 2.
Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call No.: BM50.E63 2000

The encyclopedia of Judaism.
Imprint: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Description: 4 v. (xlv, 2948 p.) ; 26 cm.
Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Judaica Reference Collection. Call No.: BM50 .E634 2005

The Encyclopedia of Judaism / editor-in-chief Geoffrey Wigoder.
Imprint: New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1989.
Description: 768 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call No.: BM50.E630 1989

Encyclopedia of modern Jewish culture.
Imprint: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Description: 2 v. (xxxiii, 1036 p.) ; 26 cm.
Subject: Jews -- Encyclopedias.
ISBN: 041529813X (2 vol. set)
Location: Regenstein, 3rd Floor Reference Collection. Call No.: DS102.8 .E53 2005

The Jewish encyclopedia : a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day / prepared ... under the direction of ... Cyrus Adler [and others] Isidore Singer ... managing editor ...
Imprint: New York ; London : Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1901-1906.
Description: 12 v. : ill., ports., plates ; 30 cm.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call No.: DS102.8.J6
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Medieval Jewish civilization : an encyclopedia / Norman Roth, editor.
Imprint: New York : Routledge, 2003.
Description: xxi, 701 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Series: Routledge encyclopedias of the Middle Ages ; v. 7
Location: Regenstein, 3rd Floor Reference Collection. Call No.: DS124 .M386 2003

The new encyclopedia of Judaism / editor-in-chief, Geoffrey Wigoder ; coeditors, Fred Skolnik and Shmuel Himelstein.
Imprint: New York : New York University Press, c2002.
Description: 856 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.
Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call No.: BM50 .E63 2002

Ozar Yisrael, an encyclopaedia of all matters concerning Jews and Judaism ...
Imprint: London, 1935.
Description: 10 v.
Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Judaica Reference Collection. Call No.: DS102.8.O95

The Universal Jewish encyclopedia : an authoritative and popular presentation of Jews and Judaism since the earliest times / edited by Isaac Landman, in collaboration with Louis Rittenberg ... [and others].
Imprint: New York : Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, c1948.
Description: 10 v. : ill. (some col.) facsims., maps, ports. ; 29 cm.
Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Judaica Reference Collection. Call No.: DS102.8.U5 1948

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Dictionaries

This list is just a sampling of the Library's dictionaries in the area of Jewish studies. To search for additional dictionaries in the Library, go to the library catalog and search by subject keyword for "Jews Dictionaries" or "Judaism Dictionaries."

The Blackwell dictionary of Judaica / Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
Imprint: Oxford : Blackwell Reference, 1992.
Description: xvi, 597 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Judaica Reference Collection. Call No.: BM50.C633 1992

Dictionary of Jewish usage : a guide to the use of Jewish terms / Sol Steinmetz.
Imprint: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005.
Description: xv, 207 p. ; 24 cm.
Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call No.: BM50 .S74 2005

Dictionary of Judaism in the biblical period : 450 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. / Jacob Neusner, editor in chief ; William Scott Green, editor.
Imprint: New York : Macmillan Library Reference, c1996.
Description: 2 v. (xxvi, 693 p.) : maps ; 29 cm.
Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Judaica Reference Collection. Call No.: BM50.D525 1996

Dictionnaire du judaïsme.
Imprint: Paris : Encyclopaedia Universalis : A. Michel, c1998.
Description: 892 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call No.: BM50.D54 1998

Historical dictionary of ancient Israel / Niels Peter Lemche.
Imprint: Lanham, Md. : The Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Description: x, 303 p. ; 23 cm.
Series: Historical dictionaries of ancient civilizations and historical eras ; no. 13
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call No.: DS102.8 .L38 2004

Historical dictionary of Judaism / Norman Solomon.
Imprint: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.
Description: xxxii, 537 p. ; 23 cm.
Series: Historical dictionaries of religions, philosophies, and movements ; no. 69
Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Judaica Reference Collection. Call No.: BM50 .S65 2006

The Oxford dictionary of the Jewish religion / editors in chief, R.J. Zwi Werblowsky, Geoffrey Wigoder.
Imprint: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Description: xviii, 764 p. ; 27 cm.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call No.: BM50 .O94 1997
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The Routledge dictionary of Judaism / Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck.
Author: Neusner, Jacob, 1932-
Imprint: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Description: vii, 181 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series: Routledge dictionaries
Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call No.: BM50 .N47 2004