Research Guides: Jewish Studies: Books

Librarian for Jewish and Israel Studies

Online Catalog for Finding Books at UCLA and Other Libraries

Search UCLA's local library collection as well as the collections from all 10 UC libraries, two regional library facilities and the California Digital Library
Locate the full text of millions of print and online books, journal articles, and other content
Get up-to-the-minute status information on what's checked out, do things like renew your books, recall books checked out to other people or request items stored in the Southern Regional Library Facility (SRLF)

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Articles, books, and more searches all 10 UC campus libraries, the electronic resources subscribed to, as well as electronic resources that may not be in the UC libraries, but that can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
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WorldCat Global Catalog searches material in libraries throughout the United States and some foreign countries.

. You can request materials from anywhere in the world using the Interlibrary Loan service—you don't even have to specify where it's coming from—but it may take weeks or months to get here, and extremely rare materials may not be available for loan.

E-books

Below is a selection of e-books and e-book collections. Some are freely available, others are subscription services, so remote access may be necessary when accessing from off-campus.

Where to find our [UC] books
UC's copies of our mass-digitized books and serials are being loaded into the HathiTrust, and are discoverable there. In addition, our digitization partners (Google and Internet Archive) also host copies of the UC books they have digitized. In all cases, copyright status determines whether books can be viewed in full. There are many access points where Google and Internet Archive books are surfaced...UC's copies of our mass-digitized books and serials are being loaded into the HathiTrust, and are discoverable there. In addition, our digitization partners (Google and Internet Archive) also host copies of the UC books they have digitized. In all cases, copyright status determines whether books can be viewed in full. There are many access points where Google and Internet Archive books are surfaced...

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Full-text access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic, and social history, philosophy, and literature of selected countries and subjects. Continually updated with new volumes taken from the print series as soon as they become available.

eScholarship, University of California This link opens in a new window

HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
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Immense array of books, chapters, conference proceedings and journal articles in the social sciences and sciences, published by Springer-Verlag. After searching, unclick Preview Only Content, whose materials are not under UCLA subscription. Advanced search enabled at wheel icon to right of search.
springerlink; springer link
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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Fifteen databases, plus individual journals and e-books. Includes 2011-present IEEE-Wiley books.
blackwell, wiley-interscience, wiley interscience

Yiddish Book Center

Dissertations

UCLA dissertations, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

YRL Stacks and SRLF LD791.9.N3

Doctoral Dissertations Jewish Studies and Related Fields at UCLA (through May 2018)

Catalogue of Russian dissertations
PDFs available for purchase
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Foreign Dissertations
Search the CRL Catalog for dissertations already held at the Center. If a foreign dissertation is not at CRL, UCLA's Interlibrary Loan Service will request that CRL acquire it for your use. This special issue of Focus on Global Resources describes CRL's extensive collection of foreign dissertations.
EThOS Electronic Theses Online Service
UK theses

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

University of Chicago Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Dissertations On-Line

Romanization Tables

Click the links below to see Library of Congress Romanization tables, which you will need in order to locate UCLA Library holdings:

Yiddish and Hebrew

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Jewish Studies