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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
American Jewish History
prepared by
Dr. Gary P. Zola
Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of
the American Jewish Archives and Associate Professor of the Amerian Jewish
Experience, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
with Dr. Jonathan Krasner
Assistant Professor of American Jewish History, Hebrew
Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
GENERAL HISTORIES
Salo Wittmayer Baron, Steeled by Adversity; Essays and Addresses on
American Jewish Life,
[1st ]
ed. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1971).
Henry L. Feingold, Zion in America: The Jewish Experience from Colonial
Times to the Present (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1974).
Arthur A. Goren, The American Jews, Dimensions of ethnicity (Cambridge:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982).
Jeffrey S. Gurock, The History of Judaism in America: Transplantations,
Transformations, and Reconciliations, American Jewish history ; v.
5 (New York: Routledge, 1998).
Arthur Hertzberg, The Jews in America : Four Centuries of an Uneasy
Encounter: A History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
Paula Hyman and others, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (New
York: Routledge, 1997).
Abraham J. Karp, Haven and Home : A History of the Jews in America (New
York: Schocken Books, 1985).
Rufus Learsi, The Jews in America, A History, 1st ed. (Cleveland:
World Pub. Co., 1954).
Jacob Rader Marcus, United States Jewry, 1776-1985 (Detroit: Wayne
State University Press, 1989).
Jacob Rader Marcus, The American Jew, 1585-1990 : a history (Brooklyn:
Carlson, 1995).
Howard Morley Sachar, A History of the Jews in America, 1st Vintage
Books ed. (New York: Vintage Books, 1993).
Jonathan D. Sarna, The American Jewish Experience, 2nd ed. (New
York: Holmes & Meier, 1997).
Gerald Sorin, Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America,
The American Moment (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).
DOCUMENTARY HISTORIES
Robert H. Abzug, America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945 : A Brief
Documentary History, The Bedford series in history and culture (Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999).
Joseph L. Blau and Salo Wittmayer Baron, The Jews of the United States,
1790-1840, a Documentary History, Jacob R. Schiff library of Jewish
contributions to American democracy ; no. 17-19 (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1963).
Leonard Dinnerstein, America and the Survivors of the Holocaust,
Contemporary American history series (New York: Columbia University Press,
1982).
Daniel Judah Elazar, Jonathan D. Sarna, and Rela M. Geffen, A Double
Bond: The Constitutional Documents of American Jewry, JCPA series
in Jewish political studies (Lanham Jerusalem: University Press of America;
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1992).
Lloyd P. Gartner, Jewish Education in the United States: A Documentary
History (New York: Teachers College Press, 1969).
David M. Goldenberg, To Bigotry No Sanction: Documents in American
Jewish History(Philadelphia: Annenberg Research Institute, 1988).
Jacob Rader Marcus, The American Jewish Woman: A Documentary History (New
York Cincinnati: Ktav Pub. House ; American Jewish Archives, 1981).
Jacob Rader Marcus, The Jew in the American World: A Source Book (Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 1996).
Milton Meltzer, The Jewish Americans : A History in Their Own Words,
1650-1950, 1st ed. (New York: Crowell, 1982).
Marc Lee Raphael, Jews and Judaism in the United States : A Documentary
History, Library of Jewish Studies (New York: Behrman House, 1983).
Morris U. Schappes, A Documentary History of the Jews in the United
States, 1654-1875, 3d ;
[1st Schocken ]
ed. (New York: Schocken Books, 1971).
JEWISH IDENTITY AND CULTURE
Alexander Bloom, Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals & Their
World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Neil M. Cowan and Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Our Parents' Lives: The Americanization
of Eastern European Jews (New York: Basic Books, 1989).
Paul Cowan, An Orphan in History: Retrieving a Jewish Legacy,
1st ed. (New York: Quill, 1996).
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The Jewish Presence: Essays on Identity and History,
1st ed. (New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1977).
Marc Dollinger, Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern
American(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
Arnold M. Eisen, The Chosen People in America: A Study in Jewish Religious
Ideology(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983).
David Harry Ellenson, Between Tradition and Culture: The Dialectics
of Modern Jewish Religion and Identity, South Florida-Rochester-Saint
Louis Studies on Religion and the Social Order ; v. 10 (Atlanta: Scholars
Press, 1994).
Gerhard Falk, American Judaism in Transition: The Secularization of
a Religious Community (Lanham: University Press of America, 1995).
Henry L. Feingold, Lest Memory Cease: Finding Meaning in the American
Jewish Past, 1st ed., Modern Jewish history (Syracuse: Syracuse University
Press, 1996).
Egal Feldman, Dual Destinies: The Jewish Encounter with Protestant
America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990).
Sylvia Barack Fishman, Jewish Life and American Culture, SUNY
series in American Jewish society in the 1990s (Albany: State University
of New York, 2000).
Robert B. Goldmann, Wayward Threads, Jewish lives (Evanston: Northwestern
University Press, 1997).
Arthur A. Goren, The Politics and Public Culture of American Jews (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1999).
David A. Hollinger, Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in
Mid-twentieth Century American Intellectual History (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1996).
Jenna Weissman Joselit, The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish
Culture 1880-1950, 1st ed. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1994).
Eli Lederhendler, Jewish Responses to Modernity: New Voices in America
and Eastern Europe, Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual
History (New York: New York University Press, 1994).
Robert M. Seltzer and Norman J. Cohen, The Americanization of the
Jews, Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History (New
York: New York University Press, 1995).
Chaim Isaac Waxman, America's Jews in Transition (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1983).
Jack Wertheimer, A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America,
New England pbk. ed., Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture,
and life (Waltham: Brandeis University Press; Hanover:University Press
of New England, 1997).
Stephen J. Whitfield, In Search of American Jewish Culture, Brandeis
series in American Jewish history, culture, and life (Hanover: Brandeis
University Press, 1999).
THE SEPHARDIC PERIOD AND THE
SEPHARDIM
Marc Angel, The Sephardim of the United States: An Exploratory Study (New
York: Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture,
1970).
Eli Faber, A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1820,
The Jewish people in America ; v. 1 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1992).
Miriam K. Freund, Jewish Merchants in Colonial America: Their Achievements
and Their Contributions to the Development of America (West Orange:
Behrman House, 1986).
Lee Max Friedman, Pilgrims in a New Land (Westport: Greenwood
Press, 1979).
James William Hagy, This Happy Land: The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum
Charleston (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993).
Jacob Rader Marcus, The Colonial American Jew, 1492-1776 (Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 1970).
Jacob Rader Marcus, Early American Jewry (New York: Ktav Pub.
House, 1975).
Joseph M. Papo, Sephardim in Twentieth Century America: In Search
of Unity (San Jose, Calif.Berkeley, California: Judah L. Magnes Museum,
1987).
Jonathan D. Sarna (Kraut, B. & Joseph, S.), Jews and the Founding
of the Republic (New York: M. Wiener Pub., 1985).
Robert P. Swierenga, The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American
Diaspora, American Jewish civilization series (Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 1994).
Gary Phillip Zola, Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788-1828: Jewish Reformer
and Intellectual (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994).
THE GERMAN IMMIGRATION AND THE
GERMAN IMMIGRANT
Bernard Bailyn, Heinrich August Winkler, and German Historical Institute
(Washington D.C.), From Protestant Peasants to Jewish Intellectuals:
the Germans in the Peopling of America (Oxford: New York : Berg for
the German Historical Institute, 1988).
Avraham Barkai, Branching Out: German-Jewish Immigration to the United
States, 1820-1914, Ellis Island series (New York: Holmes & Meier,
1994).
Naomi Wiener Cohen, Encounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in
the United States, 1830-1914, 1st ed. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society, 1984).
Hasia R. Diner, A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880,
The Jewish people in America ; v. 2 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1992).
Jeffrey S. Gurock, Central European Jews in America, 1840-1880: Migration
and Advancement, American Jewish history ; 2 (New York: Routledge,
1998).
Leon A. Jick, The Americanization of the Synagogue, 1820-1870 (Hanover:
Published for Brandeis University Press by the University Press of New
England, 1976).
Lance Jonathan Sussman, Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism,
American Jewish civilization series (Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1995).
THE EAST EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION
AND THE EASTERN EUROPEAN JEW
Stephen Birmingham, "The Rest of Us": The Rise of America's Eastern
European Jews, 1st Syracuse Press ed., Modern Jewish history (Syracuse:
Syracuse University Press, 1999).
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, On Equal Terms: Jews in America, 1881-1981,
1st ed. (New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1982).
Henry L. Feingold, A Time for Searching: Entering the Mainstream,
1920-1945, The Jewish people in America ; v. 4 (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1992).
Jack Glazier, Dispersing the Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants
Across America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998).
Jeffrey S.Gurock, When Harlem Was Jewish, 1870-1930 (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1979).
Uri D. Herscher, Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880-1910 (Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 1981).
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Special Sorrows: the Diasporic Imagination
of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1995).
Robert A. Rockaway, But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes
of Jewish Gangsters, Rev. ed. (Jerusalem; New York: Gefen Pub. House,
2000).
Robert A. Rockaway, Words of the Uprooted: Jewish Immigrants in Early
Twentieth-century America, Documents in American social history (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1998).
Rita James Simon, In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet
Jewish Immigration in America (Westport: Praeger, 1997).
Gerald Sorin, A Time for Building: The Third Migration, 1880-1920,
The Jewish people in America ; v. 3 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1992).
AMERICAN JEWRY IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Melissa Fay Greene, The Temple Bombing (Reading: Addison-Wesley,
1996).
Jeffrey S. Gurock and Jacob J. Schacter, A Modern Heretic and a Traditional
Community : Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism (New
York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
Jenna Weissman Joselit and others, Getting Comfortable in New York:
The American Jewish Home, 1880-1950 (New York: The Jewish Museum,
1990).
Jenna Weissman Joselit, Our Gang: Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish
Community, 1900-1940, 1st Midland book ed. (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1983).
Jenna Weissman Joselit, Karen S. Mittelman, and National Museum of American
Jewish History (Philadelphia Pa.), A Worthy Use of Summer: Jewish
Summer Camping in America (Philadelphia: National Museum of American
Jewish History, 1993).
David Kaufman, Shul with a Pool: The "Synagogue-Center" in American
Jewish History, Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture,
and life (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1999).
Bernard Martin, Movements and Issues in American Judaism: An Analysis
and Sourcebook of Developments Since 1945 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 1978).
Marc Lee Raphael, Profiles in American Judaism: the Reform, Conservative,
Orthodox, and Reconstructionist Traditions in Historical Perspective,
1st ed. (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984).
Shuly Rubin Schwartz, The Emergence of Jewish Scholarship in America:
The Publication of the Jewish Encyclopedia, Monographs of the Hebrew
Union College ; no. 13 (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1991).
Edward S. Shapiro, A Time for Healing: American Jewry Since World
War II, The Jewish people in America ; v. 5 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1992).
Melvin I. Urofsky, A Voice That Spoke for Justice: The Life and Times
of Stephen S. Wise, SUNY series in modern Jewish history (Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1982).
JEWISH RELIGIOUS HISTORY
Joseph L. Blau, Judaism in America: From Curiosity to Third Faith (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1976).
Nathan Glazer, American Judaism, 2nd, rev., with a new introd.
ed., Chicago history of American civilization (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1989).
Gilbert S. Rosenthal, Four Paths to One God; Today's Jew and His Religion (New
York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1973).
REFORM JUDAISM
Walter Jacob, The Changing world of Reform Judaism: the Pittsburgh
Platform in Retrospect: Papers Presented on the Occasion of the 100th
Anniversary of the Pittsburgh Platform, February, 1985 and The proceedings
of 1885 (Pittsburgh: Rodef Shalom Congregation, 1985).
Michael A. Meyer and W. Gunther Plaut, A Reform Judaism Reader: North
American Documents (New York: UAHC Press, 2000).
Michael A. Meyer, Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement
in Judaism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).
Kerry Olitzky, Lance Sussman and Malcolm Stern, Reform Judaism in
America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook (Westport: Greenwood
Press, 1993).
W. Gunther Plaut, The Growth of Reform Judaism: American and European
Sources to 1948 (New York: World Union for Progressive Judaism, 1963).
David Polish, Renew Our Days: The Zionist Issue in Reform Judaism (Jerusalem:
World Zionist Organization, 1976).
Alan Silverstein, Alternatives to Assimilation: The Response of Reform
Judaism to American Culture, 1840-1930, Brandeis series in American
Jewish history, culture, and life (Hanover: Published for Brandeis University
Press by University Press of New England, 1994).
Sefton D. Temkin, Isaac Mayer Wise, Shaping American Judaism (Oxford
England ; New York Washington, DC: Published for the Littman Library
by Oxford University Press, Distributed in the U.S. by B'nai B'rith Book
Service, 1992).
CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM
Moshe Davis, The Emergence of Conservative Judaism: The Historical
School in 19th Century America (Westport.: Greenwood Press, 1977).
Daniel Judah Elazar and Rela M. Geffen, The Conservative Movement
in Judaism: Dilemmas and Opportunities, SUNY series in American Jewish
society in the 1990s (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000).
Robert E. Fierstien, A Different Spirit: The Jewish Theological Seminary
of America, 1886-1902 (New York: The Seminary, 1990).
Neil Gillman, Conservative Judaism: The New Century (West Orange:
Behrman House, 1993).
Pamela Nadel, Conservative Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary
and Sourcebook (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 19 )
Herbert Rosenblum, Conservative Judaism: A Contemporary History (New
York: United Synagogue of America, 1983).
Mordecai Waxman, Tradition and Change: The Development of Conservative
Judaism(New York: Burning Bush Press, 1958).
Jack Wertheimer, Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological
Seminary, 1st ed. (New York: The Seminary, 1997).
ORTHODOXY
Saul Bernstein, The Orthodox Union Story: A Centenary Portrayal (Northvale:Jason
Aronson, 1997).
Murray Herbert Danzger, Returning to Tradition: The Contemporary Revival
of Orthodox Judaism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).
Gurock, Jeffrey S. American Jewish Orthodoxy in Historical Perspective (Hoboken:
KTAV Pub. House, 1996).
Jenna Weissman Joselit, New York's Jewish Jews: The Orthodox Community
in the Interwar Years (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
Moshe D. Sherman, Orthodox Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary
and Sourcebook, Jewish denominations in America, (Westport: Greenwood
Press, 1996).
JEWISH EDUCATION
Floyd S. Fierman, Sources of Jewish Education in America Prior to
1881 (El Paso, Tex.,: 1960).
Lloyd P. Gartner, Jewish Education in the United States: A Documentary
History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969).
Judah Pilch (ed.), A History of Jewish Education in America (New
York: American Association for Jewish Education, 1969).
Alvin I. Schiff, The Jewish Day School in America (New York: Jewish
Education Committee Press, 1966).
Nathan H. Winter, Jewish Education in a Pluralist Society: Samson
Benderly and Jewish Education in the United States (New York: New
York University Press, 1966).
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WOMAN
Joyce Antler, The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America (New
York: Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, 1997).
Dianne Ashton, Rebecca Gratz: Women and Judaism in Antebellum America
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997).
Charlotte Baum, Paula Hyman, and Sonya Michel, The Jewish Woman in
America(New York: Dial Press, 1976).
Sylvia Barack Fishman, A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American
Jewish Community, (Hanover: Brandeis University Press: Published
by University Press of New England, 1995).
Susan A. Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant
Generation(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990).
Karla Goldman, Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women
in American Judaism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).
Jenna Weissman Joselit, Aspiring Women: A History of the Jewish Foundation
for Education of Women (New York: Jewish Foundation for Education
of Women, 1996).
Linda Gordon Kuzmack, Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in
England and the United States, 1881-1933 (Columbus: Ohio State University
Press, 1990).
Jacob Rader Marcus, The American Jewish Woman, 1654-1980 (New
York; Cincinnati: Ktav Pub. House; American Jewish Archives, 1981).
Pamela Susan Nadell, Women Who Would Be Rabbis : A History of Women's
Ordination, 1889-1985 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998).
Riv-Ellen Prell, Fighting to Become American: Jews, Gender and the
Anxiety of Assimilation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999).
D. L. Schultz, Going South : Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement.
New York, New York University Press, 2001).
Gary Phillip Zola, Women Rabbis: Exploration & Celebration: Papers
Delivered at an Academic Conference Honoring Twenty Years of Women in
the Rabbinate, 1972-1992 (Cincinnati: HUC-JIR Rabbinic Alumni Association
Press, 1996).
AFRICAN AMERICANS AND AMERICAN
JEWS
Graenum Berger, Black Jews in America: A Documentary with Commentary (New
York, N.Y.: Commission on Synagogue Relations Federation of Jewish Philanthropies
of New York, 1978).
James H. Boykin, Black Jews: A Study in Minority Experience (Miami:
J.H. Boykin, 1996).
E. Miller Budick, Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation, Cambridge
studies in American literature and culture (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1998).
Norman H. Finkelstein, Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's
Civil Rights Struggle, 1st ed. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society, 1997).
Seth Forman, Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism (New
York: New York University Press, 1998).
Hedda Garza, African Americans and Jewish Americans: A History of
Struggle, The African-American experience (New York: F. Watts, 1995).
V. P. Franklin, African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century:
Studies in Convergence and Conflict (Columbia: University of Missouri
Press, 1998).
Saul S. Friedman, Jews and the American Slave Trade (New Brunswick:
Transaction Publishers, 1998).
Ethan Goffman, Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary
American Literature, SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and
culture (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000).
James E. Landing, Black Judaism: Spread of a Movement (Durham:
Carolina Academic Press, 1997).
Clive Webb, Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights (Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2001).
ANTI-SEMITISM
Joseph W. Bendersky, The Jewish Threat: Anti-Semitic Politics of the
American Army(New York: Basic Books, 2000).
Steven Alan Carr, Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History,
1880-1941, Cambridge studies in the history of mass communications
(Cambridge England; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Leonard Dinnerstein, Antisemitism in America (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1994).
Leonard Dinnerstein, Uneasy at Home: Antisemitism and the American
Jewish Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987).
Leonard Dinnerstein, The Leo Frank Case (Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 1987).
Leonard Dinnerstein, America and the Survivors of the Holocaust,
Contemporary American history series (New York: Columbia University Press,
1982).
Leonard Dinnerstein, Antisemitism in the United States (New York:
Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1971).
Edward F. Dolan, Anti-Semitism (New York: F. Watts, 1985).
Frank E. Eakin, What Price Prejudice?: Christian Antisemitism in America,
Studies in Judaism and Christianity (New York: Paulist Press, 1998).
David A. Gerber, Anti-Semitism in American History (Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1986).
Jeffrey Paul Melnick, Black-Jewish Relations on Trial : Leo Frank
and Jim Conley in the new South (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,
2000).
AMERICAN JEWISH LITERATURE
Victoria Aarons, A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in
American Jewish Fiction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996).
Robert Alter, America and Israel, Literary and Intellectual Trends (New
York: Hadassah Education Dept., 1970).
Sig Altman, The Comic Image of the Jew: Explorations of a Pop Culture
Phenomenon(Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1971).
Jules Chametzky, Our Decentralized Literature: Cultural Mediations
in Selected Jewish and Southern Writers (Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press, 1986).
Sam B. Girgus, The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984).
Rudolf Glanz, The Jew in Early American Wit and Graphic Humor (New
York: Ktav Pub. House, 1973).
Roy Goldblatt, Beyond the Pale: The Escape from the Ghetto in early
Twentieth-century Jewish-American Fiction (Joensuu: Joensuun yliopiston
monistuskeskus, 1993).
Louis Harap, The Image of the Jew in American Literature: From early
Republic to Mass Immigration, 1st ed. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society of America, 1974).
Diane Marilyn Lichtenstein, Writing their Nations: The Tradition of
Nineteenth-century American Jewish Women Writers (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1992).
POLITICS
David Biale, Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History (New York:
Schocken Books, 1986).
William S. Berlin, On the Edge of Politics: The Roots of Jewish Political
Thought in America, Contributions in political science ; no. 14 (Westport:
Greenwood Press, 1978).
Paul Breines, Tough Jews: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma
of American Jewry (New York: Basic Books, 1990).
Naomi Wiener Cohen, Jews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious
Equality, Studies in Jewish history (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1992).
Jonathan D. Sarna and David G. Dalin, Religion and State in the American
Jewish Experience, (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997).
Michael Staub, Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism
in Postwar America, (New York: Columbia University Press,
2002).
Stuart Svonkin, Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight
for Civil Liberties
(New York, Columbia University Press, 1997).
ZIONISM AND ISRAEL
Yaakov S. Ariel, On Behalf of Israel: American Fundamentalist Attitudes
Toward Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, 1865-1945, Chicago studies in
the history of American religion ; v. 1 (Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1991).
Michael Berkowitz, Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933 (Cambridge;
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Bozenna Chylinska, "In Search of Greener Pastures": A hundred Years
of the Zionist Idea in the United States: from Zionism to Israelism (Warsaw:
Institute of English Studies School of Modern Languages University of
Warsaw, 1996).
Naomi Wiener Cohen, The Year After the Riots: American responses to
the Palestine Crisis of 1929-30 (Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1988).
Moshe Davis, America and the Holy Land, With eyes toward Zion,
4 (Westport: Praeger, 1995).
Andrew Furman, Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey
of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995, SUNY series in
modern Jewish literature and culture (Albany: State University of New
York Press, 1997).
Allon Gal (ed.), Envisioning Israel: The Changing Ideals and Images
of North American Jews (Jerusalem, Magnes Press, Hebrew University;
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996).
Howard R. Greenstein, Turning Point, Zionism and Reform Judaism,
Brown Judaic studies ; no. 12 (Chico: Scholars Press, 1981).
Peter Grose, Israel in the Mind of America (New York: Schocken
Books, 1984).
Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Zionism: Mission and Politics, American
Jewish history ; v. 8 (New York: Routledge, 1998).
Stuart E. Knee, The Concept of Zionist Dissent in the American Mind,
1917-1941 (New York: R. Speller, 1979).
Thomas A. Kolsky, Jews against Zionism : the American Council for
Judaism, 1942-1948 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990).
Rafael Medoff, Militant Zionism in America: The Rise of the Jabotinsky
Movement in the United States, 1926-1948 (Tuscaloosa: University
of Alabama Press).
Rafael Medoff, Zionism and the Arabs: An American Jewish Dilemma,
1898-1948 (Westport: Praeger: 2002).
Mark Raider, The Emergence of American Zionism (New York: New
York University Press, 1998).
Steven Rosenthal, Irreconcilable Differences: The Waning of the American
Jewish Love Affair with Israel (Brandeis University Press;
Hanover; University Press of New England)
Yonathan Shapiro, Leadership of the American Zionist Organization,
1897-1930(Urbana,: University of Illinois Press, 1971).
David H. Shpiro, From Philanthropy to Activism: The Political Transformation
of American Zionism in the Holocaust Years, 1933-1945, 1st ed., Holocaust
series (Oxford; New York: Pergamon Press, 1994).
Melvin Urofsky, American Zionism: From Herzl to the Holocaust (Garden
City: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1975).Melvin Urofsky, We Are
One!: American Jewry and Israel (Garden City: Anchor Press, 1978).
Beth Wenger and Jeffrey Shandler (eds.), Encounters with the “Holy
Land”: Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture (Brandeis
University Press/Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998).
THE HOLOCAUST AND AMERICAN JEWRY
Yehuda Bauer, American Jewry and the Holocaust : the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945 (Jerusalem Detroit: The Institute
of Contemporary Jewry Hebrew University; Wayne State University Press,
1981).
Yehuda Bauer, My Brother's Keeper: A history of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee, 1929-1939,
[1st ]
ed. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1974).
Yehuda Bauer, Out of the Ashes: The Impact of American Jews on Post-holocaust
European Jewry, 1st ed. (Oxford: New York: Pergamon Press, 1989).
Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut, American Refugee Policy and European
Jewry, 1933-1945 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).
Henry L. Feingold, The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration
and the Holocaust, 1938-1945 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
1970).
Henry L. Feingold, Did American Jewry Do Enough During the Holocaust?,
The B.G. Rudolph lectures in Judaic studies (Syracuse: Syracuse University,
1985).
Henry L. Feingold, Bearing Witness: How America and its Jews Responded
to the Holocaust, 1st ed. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995).
Henry L. Feingold, A Life of Jewish Learning: Writing the History
of American Jewry and the Holocaust, The Anne Bass Schneider lecture
in Jewish social studies (New York: Hunter College of the City University
of New York, 1999).
Moshe R. Gottlieb, American Anti-Nazi Resistance, 1933-1941: An Historical
Analysis(New York: Ktav Pub. House, 1982).
Gurock, Jeffrey S. America, American Jews, and the Holocaust (New
York: Routledge, 1997).
Deborah E. Lipstadt, Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming
of the Holocaust, 1933-1945 (New York: Free Press, 1986).
Arthur D. Morse, While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy (New
York: Random House, 1968).
David S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews (New York: Garland
Pub., 1989).
Efraim Zuroff, The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States
to the Holocaust : the Activities of the Vaad ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee,
1939-1945 (New York Hoboken, N.J.: Michael Scharf Publication Trust
of the Yeshiva University Press; Distributed by KTAV Pub. House, 2000).
ENTERTAINMENT
Sarah Blacher Cohen, From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American
Stage and Screen, Jewish literature and culture (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1983).
Patricia Erens, The Jew in American Cinema, Jewish literature
and culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984).
Neal Gabler, An Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood,
1st ed. (New York: Crown Publishers, 1988).
Kenneth Aaron Kanter, The Jews on Tin Pan Alley: The Jewish Contribution
to American Popular Music, 1830-1940 (New York/Cincinnati: Ktav Pub.
House; American Jewish Archives, 1982).
Jeffrey Paul Melnick, A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans,
Jews, and American Popular Song (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1999).
EVANGELIZING THE AMERICAN JEW
Yaakov Ariel, Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews,
1880-2000(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
George L. Berlin, Defending the Faith: Nineteenth-century American
Jewish Writings on Christianity and Jesus, SUNY series in religious
studies (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989).
David Max Eichhorn, Evangelizing the American Jew (Middle Village:
Jonathan David Publishers, 1978).
Shoshanah Feher, Passing over Easter: Constructing the Boundaries
of Messianic Judaism (Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 1998).
SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORY
Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin, The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis
and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s (Tuscaloosa: University of
Alabama Press, 1997).
Eli N. Evans, Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish Confederate (New York:
Free Press, 1988).
Eli N. Evans, The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish
Southerner(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993).
Bertram Wallace Korn, American Jewry and the Civil War (Cleveland;
New York Philadelphia: World Pub. Co. ; Jewish Publication Society of
America, 1961).
Clive Webb, Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights (Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2001).
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORIES
Philip Bernstein, To Dwell in Unity : the Jewish Federation Movement
in America Since 1960, 1st ed. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society of America, 1983).
Irving Bernstein, Living UJA history (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society, 1997).
Melech Epstein and Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress), Jewish
Labor in U.S.A.: An Industrial, Political and Cultural History of the
Jewish Labor Movement (New York?: Ktav Pub. House, 1969).
Milton Goldin, Why They Give: American Jews and their Philanthropies (New
York: Macmillan, 1976).
Jenna Weissman Joselit, Lending dignity: The First One Hundred Years
of the Hebrew Free Loan Society of New York (New York, N.Y. (205
E. 42nd St., New York 10017): The Society, 1992).
Marc Lee Raphael, A History of the United Jewish Appeal, 1939-1982,
Brown Judaic studies ; no. 34 (Chico: Scholars Press, 1982).
Shelly Tenenbaum, A Credit to Their Community: Jewish Loan Societies
in the United States, 1880-1945, American Jewish civilization series
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993).
LEADING PERIODICALS OF AMERICAN
JEWISH HISTORY
The American Jewish Archives Journal (1948 to Present)
American Jewish History (1968 to Present)
[formerly Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society (1892-1961) and American Jewish Historical Quarterly (1961-1968)]
The American Jewish Yearbook (1899 to Present)
Modern Judaism (1981 to Present)
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE
William W. Brickman, The Jewish Community in America: An Annotated
and Classifed Bibliographical Guide (New York: Benjamin Franklin
Press, 1977)
Jeffrey Gurock, American Jewish History: A Bibliographical Guide (New
York: Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith, 1983).
Jacob Rader Marcus, A Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography (New
York: Carlson Press, 1994).
Robert Singerman, Judaica Americana : a Bibliography of
Publications to 1900 (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
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