The Jewish Women's Archive is proud to announce the launch of the online version of Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia,
originally produced by Alice and Moshe Shalvi of Shalvi Publishing Ltd.
This new resource will be available for free at http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/ beginning March 1, 2009.
I've also requested to have this resource listed in MNCAT.
Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online!
Link: http://www.oxford-deadseascrolls.com/.
Access is restricted to University of Minnesota--Twin Cities only.
This will be added to the MNCAT record (we own the print edition - Wilson Reference Quarto BM487 .E53 2000).
Coverage Dates: 2000 - present
Contents: Full Text
References are Find It enabled.
About: Featuring 450 articles by an international community of 100 distinguished scholars, the Encyclopedia is the definitive account of what we know about the scrolls—their history, relevance, meaning, and the controversies that surround them. The works are viewed in historical, linguistic, and religious contexts, with archaeological evidence providing a clear basis for dating and preservation of the manuscripts.
Jewish Social Studies (Arts & Sciences VI)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jewisocistud
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1939) – Vol. 50, No. 3/4 (Summer/Autumn, 1988/1993)
New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 1994) – New Series, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Autumn, 2002)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISSN: 0021-6704
This increases our online access to the backfile. Recent issues are accessible to U of M students, staff and faculty via Project Muse, Ethnic Newswatch and Ebsco Academic Search Premier.
Check out the electronic books listed in MNCAT. Just type in keywords electronic and Jewish. Search results include reference sources, e-books and some music recordings.
Here are a few recently added titles (first 9 of 486 titles):
1. - Title The Israeli-Palestinian conflict [electronic resource] : from conflict resolution to conflict management / edited by Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov.
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Internet Access for University of Minnesota Twin Cities access.
Availability TC Internet Resource Online Resource
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Author Berlinski, Herman.
Title From the world of my father [electronic resource] ; Shofar service ; The burning bush ; Symphonic visions / Herman Berlinski.
Published [Hong Kong] : Naxos Music Library, [2007]
Series American classics (Naxos (Sound recording label)) Naxos Music Library.
Internet Access for University of Minnesota Twin Cities access
for University of Minnesota Duluth access
Availability TC Internet Resource Online Resource
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Title Encyclopedia of religious and spiritual development [electronic resource] / editors, Elizabeth M. Dowling, W. George Scarlett.
Published Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2006.
Series ( The Sage program on applied developmental science)
Internet Access http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/sage_eorasd Access for the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities only.
Availability TC Internet Resource Online Resource
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Title Sacred services from Israel [electronic resource].
Published [Hong Kong] : Naxos Music Library, [2007]
Series American classics (Naxos (Sound recording label)) Naxos Music Library.
Internet Access for University of Minnesota Twin Cities access
for University of Minnesota Duluth access
Availability TC Internet Resource Online Resource
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Author Kosofsky, Scott-Martin.
Title The book of customs [electronic resource] : a complete handbook for the Jewish year / by Scott-Martin Kosofsky ; with a foreword by Lawrence Kushner.
Published Pymble, NSW ; New York, NY : HarperCollins e-books, 2007.
Internet Access for University of Minnesota Twin Cities access.
Availability TC Internet Resource Online Resource
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Title Psalms of joy and sorrow [electronic resource].
Published [Hong Kong] : Naxos Music Library, [2007]
Series American classics (Naxos (Sound recording label)) Naxos Music Library.
Internet Access for University of Minnesota Twin Cities access
for University of Minnesota Duluth access
Availability TC Internet Resource Online Resource
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Title Jewish music of the dance [electronic resource].
Published [Hong Kong] : Naxos Music Library, [2007]
Series American classics (Naxos (Sound recording label)) Naxos Music Library.
Internet Access for University of Minnesota Twin Cities access
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Title Bar Ilan’s Judaic library [electronic resource] : in a class by itself : plus Responsa & Encyclopedia Talmudit.
Published Monsey, N.Y. : Torah Educational Software, 2007.
Availability TC Wilson Library Reference BM495 .B39 2007 Non-Circulating
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Title In celebration of Israel [electronic resource].
Published [Hong Kong] : Naxos Music Library, [2007]
Series American classics (Naxos (Sound recording label)) Naxos Music Library.
Internet Access for University of Minnesota Twin Cities access
for University of Minnesota Duluth access
Availability TC Internet Resource Online Resource
Read the UMNews article about the new Visual History Archives database.
Encyclopaedia Judaica is online - linked from MNCAT or go directly to http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/judaica
The print edition has arrived and is being processed for Wilson Reference.
Wilson Library Reference Quarto DS102.8 .E496 2007 Non-Circulating
Note that the new print edition is a quarto, and the old one is folio. The new edition is shelved with the regular sized books in the first floor Reference room of Wilson Library.
