Jewish American Heritage Month
The Newton Free Library is pleased to promote awareness of and appreciation for the historical trials and accomplishments of Jewish Americans during Jewish American Heritage Month in May and throughout the year. This bibliography lists books, videocassettes, recordings, and Internet resources recalling the events, people, and achievements that help illustrate the contributions of American Jews to the nation's history.
The
following books and audiovisual items are available at the Newton Free Library.
The Newton Free Library, as well as the Minuteman Library Network, has many
other books for adults and children to help readers understand the heritage of
Jewish Americans. The listed Web sites will also assist you in finding helpful
information. Ask a librarian, if you need help.
Abrams, Jeanne E. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West. New York: New York University Press, c2006. 305.488 A15J 2006
Altschiller, Donald (Editor). Jews in American Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2001. 973.049 JEWS 2001
American Jewish Historical Society. Heritage (Periodical, semi-annual publication). Waltham, MA: American Jewish Historical Society. May 2005 to date. Periodicals Room
Avery, Evelyn (Editor). Modern Jewish Women Writers in America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 820.9 M72A 2007
Barron, Jonathan N. (Editor). Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c2000. 820.1 JEWISH 2000
Bial, Henry. Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage & Screen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 791.089 B47A 2005
Buhle, Paul (Editor). Jews and American Popular Culture. (3 Volumes) Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007. 305.892 J55B 2007
Burstein, Janet. Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006. 820.9 B93T 2006
Dimont, Max I. The Jews in America: The Roots, History, and Destiny of American Jews. New York: Simon and Schuster, c1978. 296.097 D59J 1978
Eban, Abba. Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (DVD videorecording). New York: Home Vision Entertainment, c2002. DVD 909.049 HERITAGE (also available in a CD-Rom format)
Eisenstein, Judith Kaplan. Heritage of Music: The Music of the Jewish People. New York, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1972. M 781.72 E34H 1972
Feingold, Henry L. "Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia: The American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007. 323.119 F32S 2007
Feldberg, Michael (Editor). Blessings of Freedom: Chapters in American Jewish History. Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Publishing House, c2002. 973.049 FELDBERG 2002
Ferris, Marcie Cohen (Editor). Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2006. 975.004 J55C 2006
Finkelstein, Norman H. American Jewish History. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2007. 973.049 F49A 2007
. Shtetl (VHS
videorecording). Burlington, VT: WGBH Video, c1996.
VHS 943.8 S56S
Gleicher, David. Louis Brandeis Slept Here: A Slightly Cynical History of American Jews. Hewlett, NY: Gefen Publishers, c1997. 973.049 F49A 2007
Golden, Harry. Jews in American History, Their Contribution to the United States of America. Charlotte, NC: H. L. Martin Co., 1950. 301.452 G56J 1950
Guberman, Jayne K. (Editor). In Our Own Voices: A Guide to Conducting Life History Interviews with American Jewish Women. Brookline, MA: Jewish Women's Archive, 2005. 305.488 I35G 2005
Gurock, Jeffrey S. Judaism's Encounter with American Sports. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2005. 796.089 G96J 2005
Helmreich, William B. (Editor). The Jewish Condition: Challenges and Responses--1938-2008. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, c2008. (ON ORDER – Check the catalog for the call number.)
Hertzberg, Arthur. The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter: A History. New York: Simon and Schuster, c1989. 973.049 H44J 1989
Kahn, Ava F. (Editor). Jewish Life in the American West: Perspectives on Migration, Settlement, and Community. Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage, c2002. 973.049 JEWISH 2002
Kanfer, Stefan. A Summer World: The Attempt to Build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills from the Days of the Ghetto to the Rise and Decline of the Borscht Belt. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. 974 .738 K13S 1989
Kaufman, David. Shul with a Pool: The "Synagogue-Center" in American Jewish History. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c1999. 296.65 K16S 1999
Leibovitz, Liel. Aliya: Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel. New York: St. Martin's, 2006. 956.94 LEIBOVITZ 2006
Levitan, Tina. First Facts in American Jewish History: From 1492 to the Present. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1996. 973.049 L57F 1996
Lyman, Darryl. Great Jews in the Performing Arts. Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David Publishers, c1999. 791.492 L98G 1999
Meltzer, Milton. Remember the Days: A Short History of the Jewish American. Garden City, NY: Zenith Books, 1974. 296.9 M49R 1974
Nadell, Pamela S. (Editor). American Jewish Women's History: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, c2003. 973.049 AMERICAN 2003
Norwaood, Stephen H. (Editor). Encyclopedia of American Jewish History. (2 volumes) Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, c2008. REF 973.049 E56N 2008
Ostrow, Martin (Director). America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference
(DVD videorecording). Boston, MA: WGBH Boston Video, c2005. DVD 940.531 AMERICA
Postal, Bernard. American Jewish Landmarks: A Travel Guide and History. (4 Volumes) New York: Fleet Press, c1977-c1986. REF 917.3 P84A 1977
Raphael, Marc Lee (Editor). The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America. New York: Columbia University Press, c2008. 973.049 C72R 2008
Rogin, Michael Paul. Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996. 791.436 R63B 1996
Rosen, Robert N. Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, c2006. 940.531 R72S 2006
Ruderman, David B. Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century (CD sound recording). Chantilly, VA: Teaching Co., c2002. CD SUPERSTAR 296 RUDERMAN (Also available in a cassette recording format)
Sanua, Marianne Rachel. Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2007. 973.049 S23L 2007
Slomovitz, Albert Isaac. The Fighting Rabbis: Jewish Military Chaplains and American History. New York: New York University Press, c1999. 355.347 S63F 1999
Sound Portraits Productions. Yiddish Radio Project (CD sound recording). Minneapolis, MN: High Bridge, p2002. CD 791.44 YIDDISH
Wertheimer, Jack (Editor). Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2007. 296.68 F21W 2007
Whitfield, Stephen J. In Search of American Jewish Culture. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c1999. 305.892 WHITFIELD 1999
INTERNET RESOURCESwww.ajhs.org/ Web site of the American Jewish Historical Society.
www.jewish-history.com/Default.htm Jewish-American History on the Web is an online archive of original documents, journals, books and literature on the Jewish-American life during the 19th Century.
www.nmajh.org/ A highly informative Web site presented by the National Museum of American Jewish History, which features a unique side-by-side timetable of: (1) American history; (2) American Jewish history and (3) World Jewish history.
www.temple.edu/feinsteinctr/main.html Web site of the Center for American Jewish History at Temple University created to promote the study of the Jewish experience in America.
This project is being funded through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
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