Research Guides: Jewish Studies: Books

Librarian for Jewish and Israel Studies

Library Catalogs

UCLA Library Catalog
Lists everything owned or licensed by the UCLA Library and other campus collections. That includes books, journals, magazines, DVDs and videos, microfilm, and online databases; but not individual articles within larger titles.
Melvyl
Melvyl is the unified catalog of all UC campuses. In addition, it also searches WorldCat (libraries throughout the world) and selected databases which index articles and other content..

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...

Cambridge Histories Online
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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

HathiTrust Digital Library
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Wiley Online Library
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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
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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

HathiTrust Catalog Search

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

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