Research Guides: JWST 3130: Jews in the American West (Wartell): Finding Information

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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (EBSCO)
Content in all fields of religion, representing all major religious faiths, denominations, and language groups.
Index to Jewish Periodicals (EBSCO)
Contains articles and references to books about Judaism and the Jewish experiencce
JSTOR
Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO)
Most important for secondary sources on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Multidisciplinary index to thousands of popular and scholarly journals, including engineering trade journals, from 1975 to current.
Berman Jewish DataBank
Results from the National Jewish Population Surveys of 1971, 1990, and 2000-2001. Articles on Americas Jewish population from 1949 to present.
Humanities Full Text (EBSCO)
Full-text articles and indexing of academic journals covering a broad range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Includes the following collections: Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson), Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
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Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
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