Jewish American Literature & Culture

American Studies Seminar: The Promised Land

1. "Jewish woman and husband, Tunis, Tunisia. Library of Congress" [LC-USZ62-88331]View

2." Food will win the war." Library of Congress[ LC-USZC4-9866] View

Torah Scroll (Upper Left). Oregon Jewish Museum. View.

Resources

Literature

Material Culture

Critical Articles

Creating Webpages

Literature

DIGITAL LIBRARIES

• Bartleby.com
• Project Gutenberg
• E-Text Center (University of Virginia)
• On-line Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
• Sichos in English (Chabad Chassidism)
• KCRW's Jewish Stories (Audio): Isaac Bahevis Singer, Philip Roth, and more)

ANALYZING

• Writing Literary Analysis (Powerpoint; Brian Yothers, Purdue University Writing)
  Lab.
• Literary Resources -- Theory (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• Ajeo: The American-Jewish Experience Online
• Jewish American Literature (Palo Alto College)

ANALYZING MATERIAL CULTURE

• Document Analysis Worksheets (NARA): tips on what to look for when reading political cartoons, maps, posters, artifacts, photographs, sound recordings, and more.

ONLINE COLLECTIONS:

• Yiddishkeit
• Library of Congress: American Memory; Prints and Photographs; Motion Picture and Television; Sound Recordings; Folklike (Oral Histories); Map Collections
• NARA: U.S. National Records and Archives Administration
• American Passages: Archive
• Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
  (UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops)
• Five Criteria for Evaluating Webpages (Cornell University Library)
• Jewish Women's Archive (not all items are public domain!)
• Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest(Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest; not all items are public domain)

Locating Critical Articles:

• How to Write a Critical Article Synopsis (Précis) & Examples (L. Leibman)
• English 303 Research Guide (Reed College Library)
• Database Gudies (Reed College Library)
• Citation Style Guides (Reed College Library)
• Jewish Women's Voices: Past and Present: A Bibliography (Frieda Forman and Cynthia Maier, U Toronto)

Creating Webpage

• Digital Asset Management Resources: Copyright and Fair Use (Reed College)
• Website Permissions (Stanford University Library)
• Webpage Creation Using Dreamweaver (CIS, Reed College)
• Microsoft Power Point X (CIS, Reed College)
• How to Connect to a Reed Server; The Home Server (CIS, Reed College)
• Information Technology Resources (CIS, Reed College)
• Virtual T-Watcher (CIS, Reed College)
• Evaluating Webpages (UC Berkeley): Will your page make the list?
• Yale Web Style Guide2nd Edition (Lynch and Horton)
• Good Webpage Design: Aesthetics & Communication (Phil Hart)
• Web Style, Design, Philosophy and Aesthetics (Karla-Tonella@uiowa.edu, U Iowa)