Jewish Studies Research Guide

This site contains a collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Searchable database of 250,000 full text news stories from 1923 from the Jewish version of the Associated Press or Reuters.

Collector of record of all books published in Israel

For UVA users, this is only a tool for discovery. If you need any of the titles provided here, use Interlibrary Loan.
"A collaboration of leading Israeli publishers, Kotar is a large collection of reference materials, scholarly books, biographies, and other materials related to Israeli and Jewish topics. Kotar aims to provide students, teachers, and scholars with the best sources of information published over the last 50 years in Hebrew, along with an online work environment. Kotar resources span Israel studies; Israeli culture, literature, history, education, and sociology; and other selected topics in the humanities and social sciences" (OCLC, Worldcat).

Newspaper based in New York with the tagline "News that matters to American Jews"

Longest-running newspaper currently in print in Israel

Contemporary newspaper based in Jerusalem

Global Jewish news source

Contemporary newspaper based in Jerusalem

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it.

Company and business information from Dow Jones; articles from over 6,000 newspapers and periodicals plus news photographs. Select "News pages" to browse daily issues of recent newspapers from many countries; use "Search" to find older articles. Access, provided through VIVA Consortium, is limited to 70 concurrent users.

The Washington Institute's interactive project, Settlements and Solutions, is a first-of-its-kind web-based geographic database that provides users engaged with the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a reliable source to explore Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Users of this mapping tool can explore settlement geography and demography and decide for themselves whether, given the circumstances on the ground, a two-state solution is still possible.

Ever since it was established, UNRWA has recorded all aspects of the life and history of Palestine refugees through film and photography. This has led to a rich audiovisual archive, containing more than 430,000 negatives, 10,000 prints, 85,000 slides, 75 films and 730 videocassettes.

The Nakba Archive is an oral history collective established in Lebanon in 2002. Since its inception, the Archive has recorded over 650 video interviews with first generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon about their recollections of life in Palestine and the events that led to their displacement.

The Museum of the Palestinian People is the first museum in Washington D.C. devoted to preserving and celebrating Palestinian history, arts, and culture.

This platform offers free and full access to the Palestine Chronology in a digitized format. Since the beginning of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, the Institute for Palestine Studies has chronicled daily political and military events surrounding the Palestine Question. These day-by-day summaries are based on Palestinian, Arab, Israeli and international sources.

This site goes through the core issues at the heart of the conflict, the world views that the populations hold, the unwritten history of insider religious mediation and finally offers some detailed sequenced steps that the parties and US should take.

Toldot Yisrael is a Jerusalem based nonprofit dedicated to recording and sharing the firsthand testimonies of the men and women who helped found the State of Israel. Now housed at the National Library of Israel.

Hosted by the Israel Policy Forum, this page offers a guided experience exploring the history and background of settlements, how they threaten prospects for two states, and to what extent they have succeeded in blocking a two-state outcome. Utilizing data and detailed maps from a report by Dr. Col. (res.) Shaul Arieli, this page illustrates the reality on the ground in a digestible format.

A Harvard University guide to finding Israeli Supreme Court decisions.

As provided by Tel Aviv University

Opinions of the Supreme Court of Israel provided by Cardozo Law