Research Guides: Jewish Studies Research Guide: Getting Started

Welcome to the Guide!

This guide is for those interested in exploring and conducting research within the discipline of Jewish Studies. This interdisciplinary field includes the study of the cultures, history, literature, and languages of the Jewish people.

Included in this guide are a range of source types including books, article databases, newspapers, digital collections, and archival sources.

If you have any questions or would like further support researching Jewish Studies, please contact Atkins Library's Humanities Librarian, Natalie Ornat Bitting (nornat@charlotte.edu)

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Get Started in Jewish Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies by Martin Goodman (Editor); Jeremy Cohen (Editor); David Sorkin (Editor)
Call Number: BM70 .O95 2002
ISBN: 9780198299967
Publication Date: 2003-02-20
The Handbook begins with an examination of Jewish Studies as an academic discipline in its own right. The first half of the volume is organized chronologically, followed by sections on languages and literature, general aspects of religion, and other branches of Jewish Studies which have each accumulated a considerable corpus of scholarship over the past half-century.This substantial volume of c. 400,000 words reflects the current state of scholarship as analysed by an international team of experts in the different and varied fields represented within contemporary Jewish Studies.

Encyclopaedia Judaica - 2nd Edition This link opens in a new window
Updated edition of this lauded work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
Jewish Life in America (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new window
Explores the history of Jewish life and communities in America through family papers, interactive maps, and scholarly papers from c. 1654-1954.

RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
RAMBI is based largely on the collections of the National Library of Israel. The articles listed in RAMBI are collected from thousands of journals, in print or electronic, from collections of articles and from offprints sent by researchers.

RAMBI is an index, not a full-text collection. Some RAMBI records include links to articles, but these links are not configured to provide access to UNC Charlotte users.
DHJewish Projects
Browse a list of Digital Humanities projects compiled by #DHJewish, a Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities website.

The Jewish Community in Charlotte

Hillel UNC Charlotte
Levine Jewish Community Center
Charlotte Book of Life
A collection of individual and family stories from members of the Charlotte Jewish community, compiled by the Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community
Digitized Collections of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Charlotte
Digitized collection contains 30 photographs and 1 newspaper (Charlotte Jewish News 1979-2021) from the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Charlotte located at the Levine-Sklut Judaic Library and Resource Center
Charlotte Jewish Historical Society Collections
Audio recordings that feature prominent members of Charlotte's Jewish community who discuss the Jewish experience in the Queen City and chronicle the many changes they've seen throughout the twentieth century.

Protective Custody Prisoner 34042 by Susan E. Cernyak-Spatz; Joel Shatzky; Anita Wyman
Call Number: D804.5.A935 C38 2005
ISBN: 9780975326848
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz was a Holocaust survivor and professor at UNC Charlotte for over 20 years. Protective Custody Prisoner 34042 is her memoir and personal account of the Holocaust.

Learn more about Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz
Learn more about the life and legacy of Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz through this dedication by UNC Charlotte's Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies.