Guides @ UF: Jewish Studies: Reference and Language Tools

Reference

Encyclopedia Judaica - comprehensive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to modern times
Gnazim - Archive of Jewish Writers: the largest Hebrew literature archive in the world with over 750 archival collections of writers, poets, essayists and playwrights from the late 19th century to present day.
JewishEncyclopedia.com - the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia (originally published between 1901-1906) containing 15,000 articles and illustrations
Ma’agarim -- Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language - the Historical Dictionary Project (HDP) aims to encompass the entire Hebrew lexicon throughout its history from its first appearance in written texts to the present
Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics
Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World
Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945
Encyclopedia of Jewish Values
Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions
Encyclopedia of American Jewish History

Hebrew/English Dictionary
Yiddish Dictionary
A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic (Michael Sokoloff)
The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
The current web site is a tool for scholarly research. It presumes that users are already familiar with the materials they are researching, and should not be misinterpreted as being a complete lexicon at this stage.

Jewish Calendar Conversions in One Step
A tool created by Stephen P. Morse to provide translations between the Hebrew, Gregorian and Julian calendars.

Jewish Language Research Website
This website: serves as a resource for the field of Jewish linguistics - the study of Jewish languages on an individual and comparative basis - encouraging collaboration among scholars of various Jewish languages; provides information and bibliographic references for linguists and Jewish studies scholars who wish to incorporate Jewish languages into their research; provides an introduction to Jewish languages for the general public
Modern Hebrew Resources
Yiddish Resources

Hebrew to English in One Step
A tool created by Stephen P. Morse to assist with transliterating Hebrew words into English.
English to Hebrew in One Step
A tool created by Stephen P. Morse to aid the transliteration of English words into Hebrew script. How does one write the name "Mountbatten", for example.
Translating between Hebrew and English in One Step
A great tool created by Stephen P. Morse for translating words in Hebrew into English and English words into Hebrew
Translating between Yiddish and English in One Step
A tool created by Stephen P. Morse to provide translations from English into Yiddish and vice versa.