CLYD W3600: Holocaust Literature: A Survey: Guide to Holocaust Literature
This is a course guide intending to support research for Professor Dauber's Holocaust Literature: A Survey.
Basic resources for accessing books and articles
- CLIO : library web : Columbia University Libraries online catalog. This link opens in a new window
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Contains catalog records for books, serials, newspapers, music scores, sound recordings, microforms, maps, computer files, archives and manuscripts, videorecordings, and other visual materials added to the Columbia University Libraries since 1981, including some material acquired before that date. Also contains records for the U.S. Government Documents collection in Lehman Library. - Borrow Direct. This link opens in a new window
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Borrow Direct is a rapid delivery service that allows patrons from participating libraries to check the availability of and request books from the combined catalogs of Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, Penn, Brown, University of Chicago, and MIT.
- RAMBI: The Index to Articles in Jewish StudiesMaintained by The National Library of Israel, this is a searchable catalog for articles and book chapters in all fields of Jewish Studies. Note that the catalog only lists references to the articles, not the articles themselves. Check CLIO to see if Columbia holds the resources listed in your search (they are often accessible online).
- Interlibrary LoanInterlibrary Loan is your resource for books not found in CLIO or Borrow Direct, as well as articles or book chapters not available directly through Columbia. Click on the "Request It" link anywhere on the Columbia University Libraries' website to navigate to the ILL request form. Or use the E-Link feature from databases or catalogs (such as WorldCat) to link to an auto-filled ILL form.
Newspapers
- Historical Jewish PressThis site contains a collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods. The site displays digital versions of each newspaper, making it possible to view the papers in their original layout. Full-text search is also available for all content published over the course of each newspaper’s publication. More content is continuously being added.
Languages included are: Hebrew, Yiddish, French, Hungarian, English
- Index to Jewish periodicals . This link opens in a new window
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Indexing to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988. - Mafteah le-maamarim be-Ivrit . This link opens in a new windowCovers articles from approximately 1060 Hebrew periodicals and 185 monographs dealing with the land of Israel. The database contains the following: the Index to Hebrew Periodicals; the Eretz Israel database; the Tel-Hai Index to Israeli Newspapers, and the Bar-Ilan University Index to Newspaper Literary Supplements.
- Find articles . This link opens in a new windowWhile this search engine is generally not recommended for scholarly articles, it is very good for searching and identifying book reviews and newspaper articles relating to current events.
- Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) ArchivesFounded in 1917, the JTA has been the primary source for specifically Jewish news until the present day. Their archives have been digitized and are completely searchable online.
Resources for Holocaust Literature
- Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their WorkThis very comprehensive two-volume work includes essays (some as long as 8000 words) on all notable figures in Holocaust literature. Literature in all languages is represented.
The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe by Call Number: R296 Y65ISBN: 9780300119039Publication Date: 2008-05-28This unprecedented reference work systematically represents the history and culture of Eastern European Jews from their first settlement in the region to the present day. More than 1,800 alphabetical entries encompass a vast range of topics, including religion, folklore, politics, art, music, theater, language and literature, places, organizations, intellectual movements, and important figures. The Encyclopedia covers the region between Germany and the Ural Mountains, from which more than 2.5 million Jews emigrated to the United States between 1870 and 1920. In addition to the encyclopedia articles in the printed volumes, the website provides access to a collection of photographs, audio, video, digitized documents, as well as specific resources for educators and researchers.
- The Felix Posen Bibliographical Project on AntisemitismComprises an on-line database accessible through Israel's university library network (ALEPH), and printed bibliographies. The bibliography includes works published throughout the world about antisemitism -- books, dissertations, master's theses, and articles from periodicals and collections. It does not include newspaper articles, reviews, and works of fiction, nor does it cover antisemitic publications. Click "Search the Bibliography of Antisemitism" to access the database.
- Visual history archive . This link opens in a new windowContains nearly 52,000 video testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust taped in 56 countries and in 32 languages between 1994 and 1999. Most testimonies have been indexed for keywords at one-minute segments. Some videos may take 48 hours to load and view.
- Holocaust Memorial MuseumThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
A partial bibliography, by subject, of Holocaust related resources compiled by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum can be found at: http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/ - Holocaust EncyclopediaProduced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, this is a comprehensive encyclopedia of the Holocaust.
- Yizkor Books at the NYPLThe New York Public Library has over 700 Yizkor Books memorializing various towns in Europe, and nearly all of them are digitized. Most of them are in Hebrew or Yiddish, but there are some English translations available as well.
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Basic Resources for Jewish Studies
- RAMBI -- Index of Articles on Jewish StudiesMaintained by The National Library of Israel, this is a searchable catalog for articles and book chapters in all fields of Jewish Studies. Note that the catalog only lists references to the articles, not the articles themselves. Check CLIO to see if Columbia holds the resources listed in your search (they are often accessible online).
- Encyclopaedia Judaica / Fred Skolnik, editor-in-chief ; Michael Berenbaum, executive editor. This link opens in a new windowProvides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.
Books
Call number ranges can be browsed online to include all books in all libraries at Columbia (including offsite). If you are looking at a particular record for a book in CLIO, there is an option to "show" Virtual Shelf Browse directly underneath the information about the book (the default is "hide").
Note that there may be books cataloged under a different call number (such as Z for bibliography) than those listed here.
Holocaust Literature: PN56.H55
Holocaust History: D802-D810
The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive by Call Number: Butler: DS134.64 .R56 2009ISBN: 9780253353276Publication Date: 2010-01-11Retrieved after World War II from metal boxes and milk cans buried beneath the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive was clandestinely compiled between 1940 and 1942 under the leadership of historian Emanuel Ringelblum. Members of the secret Oyneg Shabes organization gathered thousands of testimonies from natives of Warsaw and refugees from hundreds of other localities, creating a documentary record of the wartime fate of Polish Jewry. Now housed in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, the archive comprises some 35,000 pages, including documents, materials from the underground press, photographs, memoirs, belles lettres, and much more. This first comprehensive description of its contents is meticulously indexed to facilitate location of documents and information. By aiding access to this unique archival treasure, the catalog and guide advance study of the daily lives, struggles, and sufferings of Polish Jews at a crucial time and place in the history of the Holocaust.
