Hebrew Literature

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Outreach and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Humanities & Business Subject Specialist
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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Reference desk IM: talktotrexler

Where can I find author introductions, to assist in identifying key works, themes and techniques?

Literature Criticism Online
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Online Reference Shelf

Where can I find literary criticism and other scholarly commentary published in books?

Trexler Library Catalog
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > catalog.
Catalog of books in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Books, Videos, Music
Catalog of books in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation. Interlibrary loan requests can be made from within WorldCat.

What about scholarly literary criticism and other commentary published in journals and book chapters?

literary criticism. . .

MLA
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Best source for searching for literary criticism by theme. The majority of works are refereed.

Literature Criticism Online
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Online Reference Shelf
Contains reprints of journal articles and book chapters containing literary criticism.

Jewish studies. . .

RAMBI Web (http://jnul.huji.ac.il/rambi/)
A free site offering a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel on the subject of Jewish thought and contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs. Index only. No full text. Use interlibrary loan. Coverage of publications from 1966 to present. English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages. The majority of works indexed are refereed.

Index to Jewish Periodicals
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Index (with a small amount of full text) of articles, book reviews, feature stories and other writings published in 150 periodicals devoted to Jewish affairs. Periodicals covered are published in the United States, Canada, England, Israel, South Africa, and Australia. 1988 to present. Not all materials are refereed.

general. . .

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
An open-access web crawler that looks for content it identifies as "scholarly." Emphasis is on books and journal articles. Not always full text. Check our library's online catalog (see above) to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text of a journal.

Getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article or book chapter you're interested in, click on the Get It link found next to the citation, or run a search on the journal title or the book title in Trexler Library's online catalog (accessed at Trexler Library website > catalog).

For articles not found in Trexler Library, submit an interlibrary loan request either from within the database (MLA, etc.) for by filling out the request form found at Trexler Library website > ILL > Articles.

How do I format a "works cited" page (aka bibliography)?

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.