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HISTORY 495S/496S: Honors Thesis Seminar 2024/25

A guide for the year-long senior honors seminar (HISTORY 495S/496S)

Subject Librarian:

Rachel Ariel, Librarian for Jewish Studies, rachel.ariel@duke.edu

https://guides.library.duke.edu/jewishstudies

Jerusalem Post and Jerusalem Report

Jerusalem Post is a daily newspaper in English: 

On Microform (since 1950):  https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE000556700

Online (since 1988)   Jerusalem post

The Jerusalem Report is a Biweekly Israeli Periodical in English:

https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE99119281303808501

Archival and Manuscript Material

Marty Rosenbluth papers, 1980-2006 and undated.

Rubenstein Library — Manuscripts, On-site 

https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE003816748

Secondary Materials: Books

To find books on the topic, conduct a subject search in the library's online catalog for the following Library of Congress-defined subject headings and limit the results by language (e.g. English):

To expand your search outside of Duke library, conduct the same subject search in the union catalogs of TRLN and WorldCat

Gush emunim (Israel)

Religious Zionists

Religious Zionism Israel  - a lot of titles!

Land settlement West Bank   Israelis  

 West Bank Politics and government

Vigilantes West Bank

Rabbis who influenced Gush Emunim:

Kook, Abraham Isaac, 1865-1935  Philosophy

Herzog, Isaac, 1888-1959  Philosophy

aldenberg, Eliʻezer Yehudah  Philosophy

Yisraeli, Shaul R. Philosophy

Goren, Shlomo, 1917-1994 Philosophy

War Religious aspects Judaism

Secondary Materials: Articles

Search “subject” in the following databases :

You may also search directly in the Library.duke.edu by clicking on the Articles box and searching keywords or subjects