The Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996 (1997), ed. Gilman/Zipes 

Leo Baeck Institute for the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry (New York City / London / Jerusalem)

The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) maintains a comprehensive collection of links called the Jewish History Resource Center.

www.compactmemory.de is an online archive of major German-Jewish periodicals of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Biographical Information:

• Dictionary of Jewish Biography, ed. G. Wigoder

• if you're looking for quick information on a Jewish individual, you may want to consult the list of short biographies at the Jewish Virtual Library (sponsored by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise)

JUDAISM - GENERAL REFERENCE WORKS

R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder (eds.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)

Geoffrey Wigoder (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Judaism (New York/ London: Macmillan, 1989)

R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965)

Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. (2007) [available online to McMaster affiliates]

Full text of the of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, published 1901-1906.

JEWISH STUDIES

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, ed. Martin Goodman (2002).

Academic and Library Links compiled by the Center for Judaic Studies Library at the University of Pennsylvania.

Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory at the University of Duisburg.

RAMBI - Index of Articles in Jewish Studies, maintained at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Print edition through 2000 in Mills Reference

Subscribing to the H-JUDAIC mailing list (disseminated in digest form) is the best way to keep abreast of news from the field, and gives you access to a great forum for research queries.

The Association for Jewish Studies is the main North American organization in the field.  Annual meetings take place in December; the next meeting is in San Diego on December 17-19, 2006.

The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies / Association des études juives canadiennes also meets annually at the Congress.

Course listings for McMaster's Jewish Studies minor.

Jewish Studies programs at nearby universities: University of Toronto | York University | University of Waterloo

PHILOSOPHY - GENERAL AND JEWISH

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a reliable reference work in the field.  The 1998 print edition is also in Mills Reference.

To research secondary literature on a philosophical author or topic, consult the Philosopher's Index.

The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) is the association of North American philosophers working in "Continental" (European) thought. Program of upcoming annual meeting on October 12-14 in Philadelphia.

The recently founded Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context (CPJC) meets annually in conjunction with SPEP.

Textual Reasoning is the on-line journal of the Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Network, a (mostly North American) group of scholars interested in contemporary modes of Jewish thought.

The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy meets annually at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The American Philosophical Association is the main professional association of philosophers in North America.

Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology holds regular meetings of its own and special sessions at SPEP.

HERMANN COHEN AND NEO-KANTIANISM

The most comprehensive work on Cohen's philosophy currently available in English is Andrea Poma's The Critical Philosophy of Hermann Cohen (translated from Italian) [on reserve / available to McMaster affiliates via netlibrary]

Hermann Cohen-Gesellschaft, linked to the Hermann Cohen Archive at the University of Zurich.

Hartwig Wiedebach's archive of documents relating to Hermann Cohen.

Website of Lydia Patton, a researcher working on Cohen and Neo-Kantianism.

Critical Idealism (blog of the North American Hermann Cohen Society)

FRANZ ROSENZWEIG

Arnold Betz, Franz Rosenzweig. His Life and Works. (Exhibit and Essay). This site at the Divinity Library, Vanderbilt University, draws on Nahum Glatzer's collection of Rosenzweig documents. Glatzer was an associate of Rosenzweig's in Frankfurt who later taught at Brandeis University and made some key works by Rosenzweig available in English for the first time. [This is one of the required readings for Week 7.]

Full text of Rosenzweig's Stern der Erlösung edited by Albert Raffelt of the University of Freiburg.

Facsimile edition of Rosenzweig's Hegel und der Staat produced by Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France: vol. 1 | vol. 2

Internationale Rosenzweig Gesellschaft, a society of scholars devoted to the study of Rosenzweig.

Two book-length guides to Rosenzweig's Star are Stéphane Mosès, System and Revelation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig, trans. Catherine Tihanyi (1982; Wayne State UP, 1992) and Norbert Samuelson, A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's "Star of Redemption" (Curzon, 1999) [both books on reserve]

Emmanuel Levinas's two major essays on Rosenzweig are "Between Two Worlds" (1959) in Difficult Freedom. Essays on Judaism, trans. S. Hand (1963/1976; Johns Hopkins UP, 1990) and "Franz Rosenzweig: A Modern Jewish Thinker" (1965) in Outside the Subject, trans. Michael B. Smith (1987; Stanford UP, 1993) 

A comprehensive bibliography that covers works published until 1989 is L. Anckaert/B. Casper, Franz Rosenzweig. A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Leuven: Bibliotheek van de Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid van de K.U. Leuven, 1990).  [available at Robarts library, U of Toronto]

A page on Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, with whom Rosenzweig corresponded about "Judaism and Christianity."

For Martin Buber see another one of my resource pages here.

Michael Zank, "The Rosenzweig–Rosenstock Triangle, Or, What Can We Learn From Letters to Gritli?  A Review Essay."  in Modern Judaism 23.1 (2003) 74-98 [available online to McMaster affiliates]

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