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Background

Use these resources to get more information on a particular topic, to clarify facts, etc. Longer encyclopedia articles may illustrate major issues in a particular topic, and usually include a bibliography of relevant resources.

• Alpher, Joseph, ed. Encyclopedia of Jewish History: Events and Eras of the Jewish People. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File Publications, c1986.
  HUNT REF-1 DS118 .E465 1986B

• Buse, Dieter K. and Juergen C. Doerr, eds. Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990. 2 vols. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.
  HUNT REF-1 DD14 .M64 1998

• Charny, Israel W., ed. Encyclopedia of Genocide. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
  HUNT REF-1 HV6322.7 .E53 1999

• Edelheit, Hershel and Abraham J. Edelheit. History of Zionism: a Handbook and Dictionary. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 2000.
  HUNT REF-1 DS149 .E25 2000

• Edelheit, Hershel and Abraham J. Edelheit. A World in Turmoil: An Integrated Chronology of the Holocaust and World War II. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
  HUNT REF-1 D804.3 .E34 1991

• Encyclopaedia Judaica.2007 ed.
  HUN REF-1 DS102.8 .E496 2007

• Fest, Wilfried. Dictionary of German History, 1806-1945. New York: St. Martin's Press, c1978.
  HUNT REF-1 DD203 .F47 1978

• Gutman, Israel, ed. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, c1990.
  HUNT REF-1 D804.3 .E53 1990

• Kremer, S. Lillian. Holocaust literature: an Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work. 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 2003.
  HUNT REF-1 PN56 .H55 H66 2003

• Niewyk, Donald L. and Francis Nicosia. The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press, c2000.
  HUNT REF-1 D804.3 .N54 2000

• Patai, Raphael, ed. Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel. 2 vols. New York: Herzl Press, 1971.
  HUNT REF-1 DS149 .E597

• Reich, Bernard. Historical Dictionary of Israel. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1992.
  HUNT REF-1 DS126.5 .R38 1992

• Spector, Shmuel, ed. The Encyclopedia of Jewish life Before and During the Holocaust. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
  HUNT REF-1 DS135 .E8 E45 2001 E56

• Taylor, James and Warren Shaw. The Third Reich Almanac. New York: World Almanac, c1987.
  HUNT REF-1 DD256.5 .T283 1987

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Book Reviews

If full text links for journal articles are not provided, click on to see retrieval options. This is only for journal article citations, and may not be available in all databases. Otherwise, Use Cameo to see if materials are in the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. If they aren't, you can use the Interlibrary Loan options to either borrow or obtain a photocopy of the material.

• America: History and Life (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1954-present (updated monthly).
  Use the Advanced Search to see the option for book reviews. Citations and some abstracts to journal articles, dissertations, and book and media reviews on United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Covers all historical topics and a variety of disciplines including popular culture, gender studies, anthropology, literature, and folklore, etc.

• Book Review Index (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1965-present (updated annually).
  Citations to book reviews in scholarly journals.

• JSTOR (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full text: ca. 1890-2000 (dates vary by journal title).
  Search backfiles of journals by all titles, by subject category,(e. g. History), by individual title or by a combination. To search for book reviews, in Search JSTOR-Advanced Search, under Narrow your search to: These types:, mark reviews. Type in the author's name and/or key words from the title (note: not all reviews will have the title of the reviewed book as the title of the article). Mark the category(ies) of journals you want searched and/or expand them and select particular journal titles. Instructions for downloading and installing the print helper are displayed when you click "Print Article" in JSTOR. A laser printer is required for printing.

• Project Muse (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full text: ca. 1998-present (dates vary by journal title)
  Search the full text of the more current issues of journals in all subject area. To find book reviews, in the Basic Search, select Author Reviewed or Title Reviewed.

• Web of Science (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  ca. 1945-present.
  Once in Web of Science, select Full Search, select citation databases to be searched, the select Cited Ref Search. The author of the reviewed book will be cited in the review. Complete the Cited Reference Lookup form and click on Lookup. After selecting from the results, set language and document type limits and click Search. Book Review is a document type limit. Since this database has a limited number of users at one time, please remember to log out.

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Books

To find books on your topic, use the catalogs listed below.

Some search terms might be: anti-nazi movement antisemitism concentration camps holocaust holocaust survivors national socialism nazis world war 1939-1945

perhaps in combination with: art architecture children cultural policy diaries motion pictures music personal narratives propaganda social conditions social life and customs sources

If you need help finding books on your topic, ask at the Hunt Library reference desk. The reference staff can help you identify appropriate terms and search strategies to use for your topic.

• Cameo
  Catalog of the materials in the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, including books, periodicals (journals, magazines, newspapers), videos, etc.

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
  Catalog of Pittsburgh's public libraries. Carnegie Mellon faculty, staff, and students can borrow materials by getting a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh library card at the Main Library lending desk. Library Cards are free to residents of Allegheny County (bring proof of address), as well as out-of-town college students residing in the county (bring your Carnegie Mellon ID card and proof of local address). You can also have materials brought to one of the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries by the Courier Service via Illiad by noting the library and call number in the notes field.

• Pittcat (University of Pittsburgh Libraries)
  Catalog of the University of Pittsburgh Library System, including all branch campus libraries. Carnegie Mellon faculty, staff, and students can borrow materials by getting a Special Borrower's card at the Hillman Library circulation desk with their Carnegie Mellon ID cards and proof of current Carnegie Mellon affiliation. See University of Pittsburgh Library System Reciprocal Borrowing Agreement for details. You can also have materials brought to one of the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries by the Courier Service via Illiad by noting the library and call number in the notes field.

• Worldcat (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1200-present (Updated daily)
  Citations to books, titles of journals, manuscripts, and other materials in libraries throughout the United States, as well as some international libraries. You can limit your search to books by by selecting Book in the Type option. Each record will let you know which libraries have that item. Use E-ZBorrow or the Interlibrary loan service Illiad for materials not in the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries.

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Documents

Some of the sites listed in Internet Guides may also contain some documents.

• Arad, Yitzhak, Israel Gutman, and Abraham Margaliot, eds. Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1999.
  HUNT STACKS-2 D804.19 .D63 1999

• Documents (A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust)
  Various documents on the Holocaust

• Documents Relating to the Holocaust War Crimes and Genocide (Stuart Stein, University of West England)

• Holocaust History Project
  Documents, photographs, recordings, and essays on the Holocaust.

• Kaes, Anton, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg, eds. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994.
  HUNT STACKS-2 DD240 .W3927 1994

• Lest We Forget: A History of the Holocaust. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research, 1996. CD-ROM.
  HUNT MUS-OFC-4 D810 .J4 L47 1996 DISC
  Archival documentary footage, including Nazi propaganda films, a gallery of over 500 photographs, maps, charts, timeline, extensive original text, and audio summaries and archival audio from German archives.

• Noakes, Jeremy and Geoffrey Pridham, eds. Documents on Nazism, 1919-1945. New York: The Viking Press, [1974].
  HUNT STACKS-2 DD256.5 .N59

• Noakes, Jeremy and G. Pridham, eds. Nazism, 1919-1945: A Documentary Reader. 4 vols. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, c1998.
  HUNT STACKS-2 DD256.5 .N365 199835

• Remak, Joachim, comp. The Nazi Years; A Documentary History. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, [1969].
  HUNT STACKS-2 DD256.5 .R43

• Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School)

• Snyder, Louis L., ed. Hitler's Third Reich: A Documentary History. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, [1981].
  HUNT STACKS-2 DD256.5 .H536

• U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. 8 vols. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1946.
  HUNT STACKS-2 D804 .G42 .A4

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Internet Guides

• Holocaust\Shoah Page
  Includes news and current events, glossary of Holocaust terms, chronology, essays, links to other sites, etc.

• The Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945 (Stuart Stein, University of West England)
  Book reviews, documents, glossary, links to other sites, etc.

• Nizkor Project (Ken McVay, Director)
  Holocaust research guides, concentration camps, Nuremberg Trials, etc.

• Remember.org
  Images, maps and photos of the camps, witnesses stories, as well as links to museums, memorials, heroes and rescuers, and other Holocaust specific sites

• Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
  On-line exhibits, FAQs, chronology, bibiography, documents, some full text articles from Yad Vashem Studies, etc.

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Journal Articles

Journal articles are written by scholars in the field, and are the type of article your professors usually expect to see in your papers, supporting your thesis. They are located by use of databases, which usually cover journal articles in a particular field. While you might find a few articles in a search of the surface web by using a search engine like Google, you will find many more by using these specialized databases, which Google, and even Google Scholar, do not search.

• Academic OneFile (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Citations to and some full text of journal articles in all fields. Search by keyword or use the Subject Guide.

• Historical Abstracts (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1967-present (updated monthly).
  The best resource for finding citations and some abstracts of journal articles, books, and dissertations on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). It covers all historical topics and a variety of disciplines including religion, gender studies, anthropology, political science, etc. Most of the books and dissertations are from 1979 to the present. To limit your search to only books and/or journal articles, click on the button to the right of the Document Type line. Mark the document type(s) you want, then click on Paste Term. To limit your search to English language materials, select english on the Language line under Refine Search. There is also a companion database, America: History and Life, for U. S. history. You can search both simultaneously by clicking on Choose Database and then selecting both databases.

• JSTOR (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Search or browse and display full text of journals in many fields. Using the Advanced Search lets you limit your search to journal in a particular field(s), such as Jewish Studies or even particular journals. This database does not include the most recent 5-3 years of any journal title.

• Project Muse (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Search or browse the full text of current social science and humanities journals. You can limit your search to a particular journal, such as Holocaust and Genocide Studies or discipline such as Judaic Studies. This database contains only the past 3-5 years of a journal.

• Proquest (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Citations to and some full text of journal and newspaper articles in all fields. To search journals, especially relevant to the Holocaust, click on Databases selected and mark Proquest Research Library which includes the full text of many history journals. Next click on Continue to select a way in which to search. Recommended: Advanced which offers flexibility in where you want your search terms to appear.

If full text links for journal articles are not provided, click on to see retrieval options. This is only for journal article citations, and may not be available in all databases. Otherwise, use Cameo and the Find e-journal list to see if materials available to you. If they aren't, you can use Illiad to obtain the material.

If you need help finding journal articles on your topic, ask the reference staff at the Hunt Library reference desk.

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Maps

• Gilbert, Martin. Atlas of the Holocaust. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982, 1993.
  HUNT REF-1 G1797 .21.E29 G48 1982
  HUNT STACKS-2 G1797 .21.E29 G58 1993

• Gilbert, Martin. The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. New York: Macmillan, c1990.
  HUNT REF-1 G1030 .G48 1990

• Gilbert, Martin. Jewish History Atlas. [New York]: Macmillan [1969].
  HUNT REF-1 G1030 .G5 1969A

• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Historical Atlas of the Holocaust. New York: MacMillan Pub., c1996.
  HUNT REF-1 G1797 .21.E29 H5 1995

• Vilnay, Zev. The New Israel Atlas; Bible to Present Day. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1969 [c1968].
  HUNT REF-1 G2235 .V52 1969

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Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles can give a sense of the importance of an event or reaction to it. With each of these databases you can limit your search by a particular time period.

• Proquest Historical Newspapers (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Search the
  • New York Times (1851-2003) or
  • the Wall Street Journal (1896-1989) or
  • both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
  Each database provides the full text of the article, as well as full text and other forms of searching. Cick Search Methods to select a way to search. Recommended: Guided, which offers flexibility in where you want your search terms to appear, as well as ways to limit your search to particular dates ro date ranges.

• The Times Digital Archive (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1785-1985.
  Search and display the full text of newspaper articles from the Times (London).

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