HEBR313: Conversation and Composition I
Instructor: A. Feuer
Web Page created by Yelena Luckert, UM Libraries
This page contains links to electronic resources useful for finding resources for Hebrew conversation and composition in a classroom setting, as well as information about other relevant library resources. For a complete list of electronic resources available to University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students, as well as information about the full range of library materials and services, consult the UM Libraries' home page.
Because of licensing agreements, access to many databases and electronic journals is restricted to UM faculty, staff, and students. These may be accessed from off campus through Research Port.
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Reference Sources UM Libraries' Catalog Databases Electronic Journals Web Resources Gateways Helpful Guides Questions?
Try in ADVANCE SEARCH to limit by "language"
Example: war and "Hebrew"
Kiryat sefer (Jerusalem)
Bibliographical quarterly of the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem. Bibliography of all the publications in Israel and of Judaica from all over the World.
RAMBI (Reshimat Ma'amarim Be'mada'e Ha-yahadut) OR Index of Articles on Jewish Studies Bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi iscompiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages.
World News Connection
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Reports online. Includes full-text summaries and translations from around the world of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, non-classified technical reports, and local media sources.
LexisNexis Academic
Full-text database that offers a wide range of news, political, legal, business, and reference information in full-text format. Primary source of newspaper articles, including those from several Israeli newspapers, like Jerusalem Post.
Historical Abstracts Information on articles, books, and dissertations about non-U.S. and non-Canadian history from 1450 to the present. Covers more than 2000 journals in 50 languages. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.
America: History and Life Information on articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Covers more than 2000 international worldwide. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.
MLA International Bibliography Indexes journals, books, essay collections, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies published worldwide in the areas of literary criticism, language, linguistics, rhetoric, and folklore of all countries.
ATLA Religion Index
Provides abstracts and indexing for articles, essays, and book reviews in over 1550 journals and multi-author works dealing with religious and theological scholarship. International in scope and language coverage. Covers all types of religions.
Transliteration Tables (Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, etc.)
This link is to the scanned text of the 1997 edition of the "ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts," approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association. These tables were developed for use when the consistent transliteration of non-Roman script (e.g. Hebrew) into the Roman alphabet is needed, for example, in order to catalog non-Roman materials.
Reference Sources
Updated edition of this work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
You will find most of the basic Hebrew-English or English-Hebrew dictionaries in the call number ranges starting with "PJ4833." They can be both in the Reference area, where they are non-circulating, and in the stacks, in which case you can check them out. All dictionaries are very different and it is best to browse through them before finding the one best suited to your needs.
CLASSIC TEXTS in Reference
Electronic Resources
UMCP MCK Electronic Text and Imaging Center PCs
The world's largest electronic collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew ever recorded, which embody thousands of years of Jewish learning.
A collection of electronic books containing English Bibles, interlinears Bibles, Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Syriac texts, lexicons, orginal language grammars, dictionaries and more.
This site eventually will include the entire Yerushalmi in the format of audio classes. Much of the Yerushalmi has already been uploaded. The website also contains much additional helpful material and links concerning Talmud Yerushalmi.
This project brings together images of major Talmudic manuscripts from libraries throughout the world enabling one to view and read the actual manuscripts as they were written.
The Munich 95 manuscript
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UM Libraries' Catalog
Catalog
The Libraries' catalog provides information about the holdings of
all libraries in the University System of Maryland. Books owned by
other libraries in the system can be ordered at the computer for
delivery to College Park (or elsewhere); click on "Request."
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Databases
WorldCat
Combined catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Books not owned by University System of Maryland libraries can be ordered for borrowing through interlibrary loan, click on "Find it" button.
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Electronic Journals
Electronic journals the Libraries subscribe to can be accessed through Research Port "E-Journals" section. However if you are in the initial stages of your research, and don't have a list of articles to look up yet, we recommend that you search databases first. Several databases of relevance to this class are listed above. More over we don't have many journals in Hebrew available electronically.
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Web Resources
Gateways
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Helpful Guides
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Questions?
If you have any questions about these or other library resources, contact Yelena Luckert, University of Maryland Libraries, at yluckert@umd.edu.
