Jews at Amherst

American Studies AMST-270 | Moodle site: Course
Wendy H. Bergoffen

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American Jewish Year Books (1899-2008)

  • ATLA Religion Database (1949 to present)
    Comprehensive index for religious and theological scholarship, including citations for journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews.
  • Social Science Database (ProQuest)
    Covers academic literature for disciplines ranging from anthropology, sociology, and political science to communication, education, criminology, demography, economics and more.
  • Education Database (ProQuest) (1988 to present)
    Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education.
  • America, History & Life (1964 to present)
    Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
  • Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
    Combined search of the historic Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chinese Newspapers Collection, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, South China Morning Post, Times of India, and Washington Post.
  • Arts & Humanities Database
    Full-text publications that focus on art, architecture, design, history, philosophy, music, literature, theatre and cultural studies.
  • Discover: Start here for books, articles & more
    Simultaneously search research databases plus the Five Colleges Libraries Catalog to find full-text articles, books and more.
  • AC Archives & Special Collections
    Descriptions and contents of archival collections and manuscript holdings at Amherst
  • Jewish DataBank
    Open-access quantitative studies of North American Jews and Jewish communities, with a wide range of national, local and topical studies.
  • Pew Research Center on Religion & American Life
    Independent polling, research, media analysis, and publications on issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs in the U.S. and around the world.
  • Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies
    Multidisciplinary research center at Brandeis for the study of contemporary Jewish life, with freely available publications.
  • Center for Jewish History Digital Collections
    Rare books, children’s books, personal letters, official decrees, maps, memoirs, posters, photographs, scrapbooks, oral histories, finding aids, dissertations, and more from the CJH, the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
  • American Jewish Committee Archives
    More than a million documents, hundreds of movies and radio shows, oral histories, and more digitized resources on the past century of American Jewish history.
  • Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
    Combined search of the historic Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chinese Newspapers Collection, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, South China Morning Post, Times of India, and Washington Post.
  • Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
    Search the most recent global news, including major US dailies, with archives that stretch back into the 1980s from over 2,700 news sources that include newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, blogs, and more in full-text format.
  • Amherst College Digital Collections
    See especially the digitized catalogs
  • Internet Archive
    A non-profit library of digitized texts, many from university archives, including Amherst College.
  • Wayback Machine
    Websites saved over time
  • Hathi Trust Digital Library