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Library
There may be times during your studies that you wish to obtain additional textual material beyond what is required in the course. Genesis staff will be happy to help assisting you in obtaining copies of additional material. Assistance may be requested from the librarian, instructor, or administrative staff. Additionally, students may wish to make use of a local yeshiva or synagogue library. For permission to use their respective collections please contact the appropriate parties, we will be happy to assist.
Audio Library
Yeshivas Ohr Reuven Audio Library
The Yeshivas Ohr Reuven audio library is a growing collection of shiurim from the Rosh HaYeshiva Rabbi Bezalel Rudinsky as well as other Rebbeim. The audio library contains all shiurim recorded at the yeshiva and at yeshiva events, and is updated on a daily basis when yeshiva is in session.
Tutorial on using HebrewBooks.org:
| Browse סייר Tab (4:19 mins) – English | עברית Advanced חיפוש מתקדם Tab, Part 1 (11:21 mins) – English | עברית Advanced חיפוש מתקדם Tab, Part 2 (11:01 mins) – English | עברית Advanced חיפוש מתקדם Tab, Part 3 (7:56 mins) – English | עברית |
Jewish Study Guides
A list of guides prepared by university librarians worldwide to help students taking courses in Jewish studies.
Sefaria
Sefaria is home to 3,000 years of Jewish texts. We are a non-profit organization offering free access to texts, translations, and commentaries so that everyone can participate in the ongoing process of studying, interpreting, and creating Torah.
Open Library
Access to thousands of e-books, including Jewish Studies e-books, is available to read by signing up for a free account.
Feinberg eCollection
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Open Access e-Books
A listing of several Academic E-Book Collections.
Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar provides free, AI-driven search and discovery tools, and open resources for the global research community.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/
Tutorial on using sematicscholar.org
• 101: Citations Overview
• 101: Search
• 101: Paper Pages
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Using Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html
APA Style Tutorial
The Purdue OWL: APA Style
These OWL resources will help you learn how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation and format style. This section contains resources on in-text citation and the References page, as well as APA sample papers, slide presentations, and the APA classroom poster.