JEWISH CIVILIZATION - JUDAIC STUDIES

• use alternate keywords if necessary
• cluster similar concepts in brackets if necessary
• use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) as required
• use truncation as required
   eg./
  (jewish OR jews) NOT (fiction OR novels)
• note: this original search will yield several titles which must be reviewed carefully
  • add another term if necessary to narrow search
  • check subject headings of items found for other search terms as needed
    eg./
    (jewish OR jews) AND ethnic NOT (fiction OR novel)
  • choose titles from original list
    eg./
    - Jewish museums of the world (296.074 GRO)
    - look at the influence of individuals (biographies)

See also:

• Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust / Shmuel Spector (ed.)
• Jewish Journeys / Jeremy Leigh
• The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels / by Thomas Cahill
• Virtually Jewish : Reventing Jewish Culture in Europe / by Ruth Ellen Gruber
• WorldPerfect : The Jewish Impact on Civilization / by Ken Spiro
• and many more: Browse: 940s on European history and/or use Boolean searches to find others
• any Isaac Bashevis Singer fiction (stories about Jewish life, history and tradition)

• Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Encyclopedia of Religion

Encyclopedias Page

HEBREWS

• use KEYWORD search
• use WCI search as example
• use "SEARCH FILTERS" to delimit location
• sort results if necessary

Use the same search strategy as that indicated for finding resources in the WCI collection.

MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER & JOURNAL DATABASES

• Select preferred package of databases:
  from YRDSB's Trillium Databases (Home access requires password)

  • including Ebscohost's Canadian Points of View

  or directly from
    - InfoTrac by Thomson / Gale - includes all our Gale ebooks (Home access requires password)
   - or -
              from Vaughan Public Libraries - Online Databases (VPL membership required)

• Select appropriate database(s) within preferred package

• Choose "Advanced Search" tab

• Ensure Fulltext selected

• type keyword(s):

  • combine keywords needed with AND operator

  • search most important keywords in Subject field (or broaden search to default fields if necessary)

  • use truncation as required

  • cluster similar concepts if necessary to optimize on line limitations

  • check assigned subject headings of highly relevant articles for alternate keywords

  • no one perfect strategy -- play around for the one that works best for given search

Infotrac articles may be emailed directly to user

eg./

eg./

OR
restrict search to your country of choice

OR
eg./

• most search engines will extrapolate variations of a word if the "main" word is used (eg./ the singular vs. plural form of a word)
• use quote marks " ..." to enclose phrases as necessary
• attach + sign to each string if needed to narrow
• - (minus sign) to say not this term

you may search Google now:

OR
Use Google ADVANCED SEARCH option

eg./ (click on below example for details)


OR
change third line to AND your country of choice (instead of NOT israel)

OR (click on below example for details)

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