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• Jewish Book Annual (volume 53 may be missing; 1942-1999) (partial serial archives)

• Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana: Treasures of Jewish Booklore (in Dutch and English; 1994) (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Sundry Faces of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Literature (2020), ed. by Karen A. Weisman (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Constructs of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism: Essays on Early Jewish Literature and History (Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies v29; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2016), by Erich S. Gruen (PDF files at JSTOR)
• Chapters on Jewish Literature, by Israel Abrahams (Gutenberg text)

• Preachers of the Italian Ghetto (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by David B. Ruderman (HTML at UC Press)

• Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Dvora E. Weisberg (page images and PDF at Brandeis)
• Diversity and Rabbinization: Jewish Texts and Societies between 400 and 1000 CE (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Gavin McDowell, Ron Naiweld, and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Beacons on the Talmud's Sea: Analyses of Passages From The Talmud And Issues In Halachah, Adapted From The Works of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at chabad.org)
• Festschrift zu Israel Lewy's Siebzigstem Geburtstag (in German; Breslau: M. und H. Marcus, 1911), ed. by M. Brann and Ismar Elbogen
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  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Resonance of Dust: Essays on Holocaust Literature and Jewish Fate (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Edward Alexander (PDF at Ohio State)

• Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2002), by Ranen Omer-Sherman (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• Jewish Book Annual (volume 53 may be missing; 1942-1999) (partial serial archives)

• Judaica Librarianship (articles are open access from 1994 to 1 year ago) (partial serial archives)

• Fundamentos da Cabala: Sêfer Yetsirá (revised and expanded edition, in Portuguese; 2011), by Carlos A. P. Campani (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Flowering Light: Kabbalistic Mysticism and the Art of Elliot R. Wolfson (Houston: Rice University Press, 2008), by Marcia Brennan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • without illustrations HTML at libretexts.org
• Man, Minerals and Masters (Los Angeles: DeVorss and Co., c1937), by Charles W. Littlefield (page images at HathiTrust)
• This is Truth About the Self: An Interpretation of The Pattern on the Trestleboard (Los Angeles: Builders of the Adytum, c1960), by Ann Davies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Canon: An Exposition of the Pagan Mystery Perpetuated in the Cabala as the Rule of All the Arts (London: Elkin Mathews, 1897), by William Stirling, contrib. by R. B. Cunninghame Graham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1902), by Arthur Edward Waite (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Hidden Treasures of the Ancient Qabalah: The Transmutation of Passion into Power (first volume of a 2-volume series; Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, c1918), by Elias Gewurz (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Kabalah and the Kabalists (Adyar Pamphlets #105; Chennai: Theosophical Pub. House, 1919), by H. P. Blavatsky
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Kabbala Denudata: The Kabbalah Unveiled, Containing the Following Books of the Zohar: The Book of Concealed Mystery, The Greater Holy Assembly, The Lesser Holy Assembly, trans. by S. L. MacGregor Mathers (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Mysteries of the Qabalah: Written Down by Seven Pupils of E.G. and Prepared for publication By One of Them (second volume of "The Hidden Treasures of the Ancient Qabalah"; Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, 1922), contrib. by Elias Gewurz (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Philosophie und Kabbala, Erstes Heft, Enthalt: Abraham Abulafia's Sendschreiben über Philosophie und Kabbala; Thomas von Aquino's Abhendlung "De Animae Facultatibus" (edited texts in Hebrew, commentary in German; no further volumes published; Leipzig: H. Hunger, 1854), ed. by Adolph Jellinek, contrib. by Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia and Saint Thomas Aquinas
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Q.B.L., or, The Bride's Reception, by Frater Achad (HTML at hermetic.com)
• Song of the Soul: Introduction to Kaballa, by Yehi'el Avraham Barlev (HTML at yedidnefesh.com)
• Jewish Mysticism, by J. Abelson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• L'Homme Rouge des Tuileries (published under "P. Christian" pseudonym, in French; Paris: The author, 1863), by Christian Pitois (page images at Gallica)
• The Most Holy Trinosophia (in English and French, with commentary), by comte de Saint-Germain, ed. by Manly P. Hall (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Numbers and Letters: or, The Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom (deluxe edition; New York: Broadway Pub. Co., c1908), by Margaret B. Peeke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qabbalah: The Philosophical Writings of Solomon ben Yehudah Ibn Gebirol, or Avicebron, and Their Connection with the Hebrew Qabbalah and Sepher ha-Zohar, With Remarks upon the Antiquity and Content of the Latter and Translations of Selected Passages From the Same (Philadelphia: The author, 1888), by Isaac Myer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Secret Doctrine in Israel: A Study of the Zohar and its Connections (New York: Occult Research Press, n.d.; originally published 1913), by Arthur Edward Waite (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Hieroglyphic Monad, by John Dee (illustrated HTML at esotericarchives.com)
• The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (1928), by Manly P. Hall (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Sepher Yetzirah, trans. by W. Wynn Westcott
  • HTML at mind.net
  • PDF at innerjourneybooks.com
• Sepher Yezirah (in Hebrew and English, with notes), ed. by Isidor Kalisch (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Cabala: Its Influence on Judaism and Christianity (1913), by Bernhard Pick (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Kabbalah: or, The Religious Philosophy of the Hebrews, by Adolphe Franck, trans. by Isaac Sossnitz (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Dreamers of the Ghetto (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1898), by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• Ghetto Comedies (London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by Israel Zangwill, illust. by J. H. Amshewitz (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ghetto Tragedies (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, c1899), by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• Hungry Hearts (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), by Anzia Yezierska (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Secular and Religious Works of Penina Moïse, With Brief Sketch of Her Life (Charleston, SC: N. G. Duffy, 1911), by Penina Moïse, ed. by Council of Jewish Women (U.S.), Charleston Section (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Königsgleichnisse des Midrasch, Beleuchtet Durch die Römische Kaiserzeit (in German; Breslau: S. Schottlaender, 1903), by Ignaz Ziegler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Babylonian Talmud in Selection (second edition; New York: Philosophical Library, 1944), ed. by Leo Auerbach (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Babylonian Talmud, ed. by Michael Levi Rodkinson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Pirke Avot (Hebrew omitted; second edition of this translation, 1913), ed. by Joseph I. Gorfinkle (Gutenberg text)
• Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirqe Aboth) (in English only), trans. by Charles Taylor (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Talmud; With Illustrations and Plan of the Temple (translations of selections; London: John Murray, 1878), ed. by Joseph Barclay (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

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