Subject Guides: HIST380J/JUST386B: Jews & Crime

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Subjects: Judaic Studies

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Historical Statistics

Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Users can customize, save, print, export and email maps and reports. The site is updated three times annually. Includes only state and county data through 1930. Includes tracts 1940 to present and block groups 1980 to present. Does not include STF 1 block level data.

Social Explorer includes U.S. Census data from 1790 to 2010, all annual updates from the American Community Survey, and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study from 1980 to 2000,

PolicyMap includes data on violent and non-violent crimes (listed under "Quality of Life"). For help getting started, see our PolicyMap Guide.

Background Info

Encyclopedia of American Jewish History
Call Number: REF E184.J5 E48 2008
Located in the Bartle Library Reference Collection (in the Information Commons)
Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture
To access this ebook, click on the title, then select the "View Online" tab, and finally click "Open source in a new window" at the top left.

Encyclopaedia Judaica This link opens in a new window
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Provides 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

Primary Sources

Jewish News Sources

Jewish Chronicle (London)
To access the Jewish Chronicle's archive, you'll need to register for a free account. (The register button is at the top right corner of the page). Coverage: 1841-present.
Pittsburgh Jewish Newspapers Project
Jewish Chronicle (Pittsburgh), 1962-2010; Jewish Criterion, 1895-1962; American Jewish Outlook, 1934-1962; Y-JCC series, 1926-1976
Historical Jewish Press
Includes the following English language newspapers:
The B’nai B’rith Messenger (Los Angeles), 1897-1995; Palestine Bulletin, 1925-1932; The Occident and American Jewish Advocate (Philadelphia), 1843-1869; The Palestine Post, 1932-1950; The Sentinel (Chicago), 1911-1996
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Includes the following English-language Jewish newspapers:
The Jewish Herald (Houston), 1908-1911; The Jewish Monitor (Fort Worth-Dallas), 1919-1921; The Jewish South (Richmond), 1893-1899.
Use the "Advanced Search" tab to search within these publications.
The American Jewess (1895-1899)
The first English-language periodical targeted to American Jewish women, covering an evocative range of topics that ranged from women's place in the synagogue to whether women should ride bicycles.
JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Archive
The digitized JTA archive starts with articles written in 1923.
COMMENTARY Digital Archive
Important directions for accessing articles: When you click this link, you'll see a list of different access points for magazine. To search for articles, use the second link ("Humanities Source") and click "Search within this publication" at the top left of the page. You can access any of the articles from before 1990 by using the first link listed ("Single Journals") and clicking the "Archive" tab. (This method is highly recommended because the archive's search functionality is very limited).
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2 simultaneous users at a time. Complete archive of Commentary magazine. Articles are in PDF format. Coverage: 1945-present.

General News Sources

New York Times, 1851-2019 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. For more recent coverage, use our Journal Title search.

Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Includes national papers such as the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal. Also local and regional papers including the Press and Sun from Binghamton, the Ithaca Journal, and other Gannett publications. Coverage: 1980 - current
Replaces Newstand and Gannett Newstream.

Government Documents

FBI Vault
The Vault is the FBI's electronic FOIA Library, containing nearly 7,000 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies. Quality of scans varies greatly.

U.S. Declassified Documents Online This link opens in a new window
This collection is made up of U.S. government documents obtained from presidential libraries. These libraries receive declassified documents from various government agencies, including the White House, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, and others.
ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Access to legislative publications including Congressional Hearings (parts A-D), U.S. Bills and Resolutions (2014-2018), laws, reports, documents, prints, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and member and committee information.
In addition to the Basic Subscription, BU Libraries has access to the full text of the Congressional Record and its predecessor publications from 1789-present, the Congressional Serial Set from 1789-2010, Serial Set maps from 1789-present, Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1932, and Congressional Research Service reports.

Primary Sources on Microfilm

The following primary sources are only available on microfilm in the Newcomb Reading Room. If you need help finding or using any of these sources, just ask at the Reader Services desk in Newcomb.

National Council of Jewish Women (1908-1917, 1925-1940)
Minutes, 1908-1917, 1925-1940, miscellaneous reports, membership lists, newspaper articles, committee reports, correspondence, and annual reports.
National Council of Jewish Women (1908-1987)
Minutes of Board, executive budget, and various committees, and of general meetings, also newspaper clippings, 1908-1987
Jewish International Conference on the Suppression of the Traffic in Girls and Women (1910)
Official report of the Jewish international conference on the suppression of the traffic in girls and women, held on April 5th, 6th, and 7th, 1910, in London, convened by the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women

Secondary Sources

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Indexes 1700 journals, provides full text of 200 titles.
The database indexes 1,700 journals from 1964 to present and also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Primarily a journal archive with some current content. If you are looking for current information, you may want to try other databases as well.
JSTOR has a "moving wall," which represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. Publishers determine the moving wall length in their license agreements with JSTOR. Moving walls may range from zero to ten years, and those with walls from zero to seven years participate in our revenue sharing program. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Humanities, social sciences, and mathematics journals from several university presses.
Coverage: Varies by title; earliest from 1990.