Library Guides: Film Studies 3845: Modern Israeli Film: Cultural Resources

Background Information

The Gale Virtual Reference Library
CQ Researcher
Background Notes: Israel
CIA World Factbook: Israel
Israel: A Country Study
New Encyclopedia of Judaism
BM50.E63 2002
Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion
Ref. BM50.O94 1997
Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture
DS102.8.B46 1989
Encyclopedia Judaica
Ref. DS102.8.E496 2007
Timetables of Jewish History
DS114.G78 1994
Historical Atlas of the Jewish People
Ref. DS117.J8513 1992
New Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel
Ref. DS149.N6 1994
Atlas of Israel: Cartography, Physical and Human Geography
Ref. G2235.K3 1985

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