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Digitized Historical Magazines and Present-Day Academic Journals

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This link directory lists digitized historical magazines and present-day academic journals in German and English. The majority of them offer online access. The directory also lists several reference works that are accessible in our public Reading Room or elsewhere via a DFG national license.

Academic Journals (in English)

The American Jewish Archives Journal

http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/journal

American Jewish History

https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_jewish_history

Association for Jewish Studies Review

https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/publications-research/ajs-review
https://journals.cambridge.org

East European Jewish Affairs

https://www.tandfonline.com

History and Memory

https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/history_and_memory

Holocaust and Genocide Studies

https://hgs.oxfordjournals.org
https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/holocaust_and_genocide_studies

Images. A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture

https://www.brill.nl

Jewish Culture and History

https://www.tandfonline.com/loi

Jewish History

https://www.springer.com/journal/10835

Jewish Political Studies Review

https://jcpa.org/jewish-political-studies-review

Jewish Quarterly Review

https://jqr.pennpress.org
https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jewish_quarterly_review

Jewish Social Studies

https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jewish_social_studies

Jewish Studies – An Internet Journal

https://www.biu.ac.il/JS

Jewish Studies Quarterly

https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/journal/jewish-studies-quarterly-jsq

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures

http://www.jhsonline.org/

Journal of Israeli History

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjih20/current

Journal of Jewish Studies

https://www.jjs-online.net

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmjs20/current

Journal of Semitic Studies

https://jss.oxfordjournals.org

Khulyot – Journal of Yiddish Research

http://yiddish.haifa.ac.il/khulyot

Leo Baeck Institute Year Book

https://leobaeck.oxfordjournals.org

Modern Judaism

https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modern_judaism

Prooftexts – A Journal of Jewish Literary History

https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ptx

Shofar – An Interdisciplinary Journal in Jewish Studies

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/shofar/

Digitized Historical Journals

Aufbau (New York, N.Y. : 1934–2004)

https://archive.org/details/aufbau

Compact Memory – Historical Periodicals in Multiple Languages

http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/cm/nav/index/title/?lang=en

Journals Exclusively in Print

Ars Judaica. The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art

https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/arsjudaica

Jewish Art

http://cja.huji.ac.il/Publications/JA

Rimonim – A Periodical of Jewish Art

http://cja.huji.ac.il/Publications/RIMONIM

Studies in Contemporary Jewry

https://ukcatalogue.oup.com/category/academic

Reference Works

Encyclopaedia Judaica

https://go.galegroup.com
Available in the Reading Room (for more information and hours of operation please visit our page for the Reading Room)

The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view
Access with a national license of the German research funding organisation DFG, for example in our Reading Room (for more information and hours of operation please visit our page for the Reading Room)

World Biographical Information System Online (Jüdisches Biographisches Archiv)

https://db.saur.de/WBIS
Access with a national license of the German research funding organisation DFG, for example in our Reading Room (for more information and hours of operation please visit our page for the Reading Room)

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

https://www.yivoencyclopedia.org

The Charité During the Third Reich / Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine; Sabine Schleiermacher; Udo Schagen

The contribution entitled "Wer wurde vertrieben?" (Who was expelled? Expulsions from the Berlin Medical Faculty, 1933) offers the opportunity to search for expelled persons via names and brief biographies.

https://charite.zeit-archiv.de/index.html

Academic Journals (in German)

Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge

https://www.gesellschaft-foerderung-judaistischer-studien.de (German only)

Medaon – Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung

https://www.medaon.de (German only)

Tribüne: Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums

http://www.tribuene-verlag.de/Zeitschrift.htm (German only)

Aschkenas: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden

http://www.angelfire.com/de/aschkenas (German only)

Illustrierte Neue Welt

https://www.neuewelt.at (German only)

Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung

https://www.tu-berlin.de/fakultaet_i/zentrum_fuer_antisemitismusforschung (German only)

Trumah: Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg

http://www.hfjs.eu/publik/trumah.html (German only)

Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V., journal PaRDeS (since 2004), previously called VJS-Nachrichten (1997–2003), as well as the series Pri ha-Pardes (2007–2013)

https://www.v-j-s.org/ (PDFs for free on the pages "PaRDeS Heftarchiv" and "Pri ha-Pardes Heftarchiv", German only)

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