Secondary Sources analyze or interpret places, people, events, and things (or primary sources!). They are typically written after the fact. The following resources on American Jewry were recommended by authors in Jews Across the Americas. Have a resource you’d like to recommend? Send us an email.
Contents
Location
Caribbean
Arbell, Mordehay. The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas. New York: Gefen Pub., 2002.
Cohen, Julie-Marthe, ed. Joden in de Cariben. Zutphen: WalburgPers, 2015.
Fortune, Stephen. Merchants and Jews: The Struggle for British West Indian Commerce, 1650-1750. Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 1984.
Gerber, Jane S., ed. The Jews in the Caribbean. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2014.
Marcus, Jacob Rader. “The West India and South America Expedition of the American Jewish Archives.” American Jewish Archives 5 (1953): 5-21.
Stiefel, Barry L. “Experimenting with Acceptance, Caribbean-Style: Jews as Aliens in the Anglophone Torrid Zone.” In The Torrid Zone: Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth-Century, edited by L.H. Roper, 163-170. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2018.
Zacek, Natalie. “The Freest Country: Jews of the British Atlantic, ca. 1600-1800.” In The Atlantic World, edited by D’Maris Coffman, Adrian Leonard and William O’Reilly, 364-375. London: Routledge, 2015.
Barbados
Watson, Karl. “1806 Plat of the Nidhe Israel Synagogue in Bridgetown, Barbados,” Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Vol. LXI, 2010.
—–. “Shifting Identities: Religion, Race, and Creolization among the Sephardi Jews of Barbados, 1654-1900,” In The Jews in the Caribbean, ed. Jane S. Gerber, 195–222. Portland: Littman Library, 2014.
Cuba
Bettinger-López, Caroline. Cuban-Jewish Journeys: Searching for Identity, Home, and History in Miami. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
Behar, Ruth. An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba. Rutgers University Press, 2007.
Behar, Ruth. Letters from Cuba. Nancy Paulsen Books, Penguin Random House, 2020.
Corrales, Maritza. The Chosen Island: Jews in Cuba. Salsedo Press, Inc., 2005.
Kaplan, Dana Evan. “The Jews of Cuba since the Castro Revolution.” The American Jewish Year Book 101 (2001): 21-87.
Stephen Silverstein, The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2016.
Curaçao
Ben-Ur, Aviva, and Jessica Vance Roitman, “Adultery Here and There: Crossing Sexual Boundaries in the Dutch Jewish Atlantic” In Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800: Linking Empires, Bridging Borders, edited by Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman, 183–223. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
Boer, Harm den. “Perfil literario de Semuel Mendes de Sola.” A Sefardic Pepper-Pot in the Caribbean. History, Language, Literature, and Art, edited by Michael Studemund-Halévy, 327-36. Barcelona: Tirocinio, 2016.
Coupé, Kent and Laura Leibman, “Cities of the Dead: Architectural Motifs and Burial Practices in Curaçao’s Religious and Ethnic Communities.” Markers 27 (2011): 56-87.
Emmanuel, Isaac S., Precious Stones of the Jews of Curaçao. New York: Bloch, 1957.
“Epitaph, Samuel Robles de Medina.” In Hoberman, Michael, Laura Arnold Leibman, and Hilit Surowitz-Israel. Jews in the Americas, 1776-1826. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Kaplan, Yosef. “The Curaçao and Amsterdam Jewish Communities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.” American Jewish History 72, no. 2 (1982): 193-211.
Klooster, Wim. “Jews in Suriname and Curacao,” In The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800, edited by Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering, 350-368. New York: Berghahn, 2001.
Oliel-Grausz, Evelyne. “A Tale of Caribbean Deviance: David Aboab and Community Conflicts in Curaçao.” The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry, edited by Yosef Kaplan and D. Michman, 159-182. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
Rupert, Linda M. “Trading Globally, Speaking Locally: Curaçao’s Sephardim in the Making of a Caribbean Creole,” In Jews and Port Cities, 1590-1990: Commerce, Community and Cosmopolitanism, edited by David Cesarani and Gemma Romain, 109-122. Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006.
Rupert, Linda M. Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Weinstein, Rochelle. “Stones of Memory: Revelations from a Cemetery in Curaçao.” In Sephardim in the Americas: Studies in Culture and History, edited by Martin A. Cohen and Abraham Peck, 81–140. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1993.
Weinstein, Rochelle. “Sepulchral Monuments of the Jews of Amsterdam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” PhD diss., New York University, 1979.
Yerushalmi, Yosef Haim. “Between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam: The Place of Curaçao and the Caribbean in Early Modern Jewish History.” American Jewish History 72, no. 2 (1982): 172-192.
Jamaica
Arbell, Mordehay. The Portuguese Jews of Jamaica. Jamaica: Canoe Press, 2000.
Barringer, T., Gillian Forrester, and Barbaro Martino-Ruiz, eds. Art and Emancipation in Jamaica. Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2007.
Chisholm, Clinton. “Religion and the 2011 Census,” The Gleaner 4 Nov 2012. https://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20121104/focus/focus4.html
Mirvis, Stanley. The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.
Ranston, Jackie. Belisario. Sketches of Character. A historical biography of a Jamaican artist. Kingston: The Mill Press, 2008.
Smalligan, Laura M. “An Effigy for the Enslaved: Jonkonnu in Jamaica and Belisario’s Sketches of Character.” Slavery & Abolition 32, no. 4 (2011): 561-81.
Snyder, Holly. “Rules, Rights and Redemption: The Negotiation of Jewish Status in British Atlantic Port Towns, 1740-1831.” Jewish History 20 (2006), 147-70.
Suriname
Ben-Ur, Aviva. Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
Ben-Ur, Aviva. “Jewish Savannah in Atlantic Perspective: A Reconsideration of North America’s First Intentional Jewish Community,” In The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives, edited by Jonathan Schorsch and Sina Rauschenbach, 183-214 Berlin: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Ben-Ur, Aviva. “Peripheral Inclusion: Communal Belonging in Suriname’s Sephardic Community.” In Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-modern World, edited by Alexandra Cuffel and Brian M Britt, 185-210. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Ben-Ur, Aviva, and Jessica Vance Roitman, “Adultery Here and There: Crossing Sexual Boundaries in the Dutch Jewish Atlantic” In Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800: Linking Empires, Bridging Borders, edited by Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman, 183–223. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
Boom, Mattie. The First Photograph from Suriname: A Portrait of the Nineteenth-century Elite in the West Indies. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2014.
Casteel, Sarah Phillips. “Making History Visible: Caribbean Artist Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Nazi Internment.” Small Axe 64 (2021): 28–46. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8912768
Davis, Natalie Zemon. “Physicians, Healers, and their Remedies in Colonial Suriname,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 33:1 (2016): 3-34.
Groeneveld, Anneke. Fotografie in Suriname, 1839-1939. Photography in Surinam, 1839-1939. Amsterdam: Fragment,1990.
Hilfman, P. A. “Notes on the History of the Jews in Surinam.” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, no. 18 (1909): 179-207. Accessed June 12, 2020.
Kruijer-Poesiat, Lies. “Ph.A. Samson and His Archive on the Jews in Surinam.” Studia Rosenthaliana 32, no. 2 (1998): 202-09. Accessed May 13, 2020.
Price, Richard. Alabi’s World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Roitman, Jessica Vance. “Portuguese Jews, Amerindians, and the frontiers of encounter in colonial Suriname.” New West Indian Guide 88, no. 1-2 (2014): 18-52.
Seeligmann, Sigmund. “David Nassy of Surinam and His ‘Lettre Politico-Theologico-Morale Sur Les Juifs.’” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, no. 22 (1914): 25-38.
Vink, Wieke. Creole Jews: Negotiating Community in Colonial Suriname (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2010.
St. Thomas
Cohen, Judah M. Through the Sands of Time: a History of the Jewish community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2012.
North America
Canada & New France
Journal: Canadian Jewish Studies
Arbella, Irving. A Coat of Many Colors: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Canada. Toronto: Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1990.
Arbella, Irving, and Harold Troper. None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Bialystok, Frank. Delayed Impact: The Holocaust and the Canadian Jewish Community. Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000.
Bialystok, Franklin. “1944: What Was Known? What Was Reported? What Was Done? What Could Have Been Done?” Canadian Jewish Studies 27 (2019): 94–103.
Cohen, Yolande. “Sephardi Jews in Montreal.” In Canada’s Jews: In Time, Space and Spirit, edited by Ira Robinson, 168-80. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2013.
Draper, Paula J. “Canadian Holocaust Survivors: From Liberation to Rebirth,” Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes 4-5 (1996-1997): 39-62.
Erwin, Norman. “The Holocaust, Canadian Jews, and Canada’s ‘good war’ against Nazism.” Canadian Jewish Studies 24 (2016): 103–123.
Godfrey, Sheldon J., and Judy Godfrey. Search Out the Land. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995.
Henry, Michele. “Passover a spicy affair for Toronto’s Indian Jews,” Toronto Star, April 2, 2015. https://www.thestar.com/life/food_wine/2015/04/02/passover-a-spicy-affair-for-torontos-indian-jews.html
Hermant, Heather. “Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue: An Eighteenth-Century Multicrosser in the Canadian Cultural Archive.” In The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives, edited by Sina Rauschenbach and Jonathan Schorsch, 299-331. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Hoberman, Michael. “More Disgrace than Honor: the Diminishment of Paternal Authority in the Letters of Aaron Hart.” American Jewish History, 98, No. 4, (2014): 211-236.
Koffman, David S., and Pierre Anctil. “State of the Field: The Animating Tensions of Canadian Jewish Historiography.” American Jewish History 105, no. 3 (2021): 403-29.
Lytton, Timothy D. Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Menkis, Richard. “‘The Voice of the Minister Heard in Words of Exhortation and Instruction’: Abraham de Sola and the Jewish Sermon in Victorian Montreal, and Beyond.” Jewish History 23, no. 2 (2009): 117–47.
Robinson, Ira, ed. Canada’s Jews: In Time, Space and Spirit. Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2013.
Robinson, Ira. Rabbis and Their Community: Studies in the Immigrant Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007.
Robinson, Ira and Menkis, Richard. “Sermon and Society in the Canadian Jewish Experience.” Jewish History 23, no. 2 (2009): 101–5.
Rome, David and Jacques Langlais. Jews and French Quebecers: Two Hundred Years of Shared History. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010.
Schnoor, Randall. “The Jews of Canada: A Demographic Profile.” In Canada’s Jews : In Time, Space and Spirit, edited by Ira Robinson, 121-32. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2013.
Train, Kelly Amanda. “East Meets West: Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in Canada and the United States.” In Neither in Dark Speeches Nor in Similitudes: Reflections and Refractions Between Canadian and American Jews, edited by Barry L. Stiefel and Hernan Tesler-Mabé, 175-207. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016.
Train, Kelly Amanda. “Well, How Can You be Jewish and European? Indian Jewish Experiences in the Toronto Jewish Community and the Creation of Congregation BINA.” American Jewish History, 100, 1(2016): 1-23.
Train, Kelly Amanda. “Negotiating New Territory: Indian Jewish Women in the Family in Toronto.” Canadian Jewish Studies, 26(Fall 2018): 31-55.
Tulchinsky, Gerald. Canada’s Jews: a People’s Journey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Tulchinsky, Gerald. Taking Root: the Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 1993.
“2018 Survey of Jews in Canada,” https://www.environicsinstitute.org/docs/default-source/project-documents/2018-survey-of-jews-in-canada/2018-survey-of-jews-in-canada—final-report.pdf
Mexico
Journal: Latin American Jewish Studies
Acevedo-Field, Rafaela. “Family Rupture among Conversos and the Inquisition Tribunal in 1640s New Spain.” The Latin Americanist, 61.3 (2017): 385-414.
Berger, Joseph, “A Secret Jew, the New World, a Lost Book: Mystery Solved,” New York Times, 1 Jan. 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/01/arts/a-secret-jew-the-new-world-a-lost-book-mystery-solved.html
Bodian, Miriam. Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Cimet, Adina. Ashkenazi Jews in Mexico: Ideologies in the Structuring of a Community. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.
Cohen, Martin A. The Martyr Luis De Carvajal : A Secret Jew in Sixteenth-century Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.
Cung Sulkin, Paloma. Tierra Para Echar Raíces: Cementerios Judíos en México. Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México, 2006.
Dean-Olmsted, Evelyn. “Speaking Shami: Syrian Jewish Mexican language practices as strategies of integration and legitimation.” Ph.D.dissertation, Indiana University, 2012.
Della Pergola, Sergio, and Susana Lerner. “La población judía en México: perfil demográfico, social y cultural.” In Estudios de poblaciones judías. Jerusalem: Instituto Avraham Harman de Judaísmo Contemporáneo, 1995.
Gitlitz, David M. Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
Gleason Freidberg, Tamara. Di Shvue, los bundistas en México y su participación en la comunidad judía. México. Mexico: Palabra de Clío, 2016.
Gleizer, Daniela. Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013.
Gleizer, Daniela, “Gilberto Bosques y el consulado de México en Marsella (1940-1942). La burocracia en tiempos de guerra” In Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México n. 49, 54-76. Mexico: UNAM, 2015.
Hamui Halabe, Liz. Transformaciones en la religiosidad de los judíos en México: Tradición, ortodoxia y fundamentalismo en la modernidad tardía. Mexico City: Noriega Editores, 2005.
Luis de Carvajal Manuscripts (c. 1596). Princeton University Library, Princeton University. https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99100134253506421#view
Mays, Devi. Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.
Schlau, Stacey. “A Judaizing ‘Old Christian’ Woman and the Mexican Inquisition: The ‘Unusual’ Case of María de Zárate. In Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World (1600-1800), edited by Daniella Kostroun and Lisa Vollendorf, 223-51. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Schuster, Paulette K. “Diffused Palates: The Evolution of Culinary Tastes of Jewish Mexicans Living in Israel.” in Taste, Politics, and Identities in Mexican Food, edited by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, pp. 175-190. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
United States
Journals: American Jewish Archives Journal; American Jewish History; Studies in American Jewish Literature
Digital Resource: First American Jewish Families: 600 Genealogies (searchable)
Abrams, Jeanne. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West.
New York: New York University Press, 2006.
American Jewish Population Project, “Population Estimates for Jewish Adults by Age, Education and Race, 2013,” Waltham, M.A: Brandeis University, Maurice and Marylin Cohen Center for Jewish Studies, Steinhardt Social Research Institute. www.ajpp.brandeis.edu, retrieved February14, 2018.
Americans and the Holocaust. Online exhibition, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/main
Ben-Ur, Aviva. Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History. New York: New York University Press, 2008.
Chyet, Stanley F. “The Political Rights of the Jews in the United States, 1776–1840.” In Critical Studies in American Jewish History, edited by Jacob Rader Marcus, 14-75. Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1971.
Collomp, Catherine. “The Jewish Labor Committee American Labor, and the Rescue of European Socialists, 1934-1941”. In International Labor and Working-Class History, n. 68, 112-133. 2005.
Cooperman, Jessica. Making Judaism Safe for America: World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism. New York: NYU Press, 2018.
Garland, Libby. After they Closed the Gates: The History of Illegal Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965. University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Korn, Bertram Wallace. American Jewry and the Civil War. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951.
Kraut, Benny. From Reform Judaism to Ethical Culture: The Religious Evolution of Felix Adler. Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, 1979.
Diner, Hasia. We Remember with Reverence and Love. American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962. New York: NYU Press, 2009.
Dubin, Lois. “Introduction: Port Jews in the Atlantic World ‘Jewish History.’” Jewish History, 20, No. 2 (2006): 117-127.
“Editors’ Introduction.” American Jewish History 105, no. 1 (2021): xi-xiii.
Eleff, Zev. Who Rules the Synagogue? Religious Authority and the Formation of American Judaism. New York. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Fertig, Mark. Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2017.
Goldstein, Eric. “The Great Wave: Eastern European Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1880-1924,” in The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America, edited by Marc Lee Raphael, 70-92. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Gurock, Jeffrey S. American Jewish History: The Colonial and Early National Periods, 1654-1840. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Hoberman, Michael, Laura Arnold Leibman, and Hilit Surowitz-Israel, eds. Jews in the Americas, 1776-1826. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Jacobs, Jack. “A friend in Need: The Jewish Labor Committee and Refugees from the German-Speaking Lands, 1933-1945”. In YIVO Annual, v. 23, 391-418. USA: Northwestern University Press and The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1996.
Jews of Color Initiative, “Counting Inconsistencies: An Analysis of American Jewish Population Studies, with a Focus on Jews of Color” (2019) https://jewsofcolorfieldbuilding.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Counting-Inconsistencies-052119.pdf
Kaufman, David. Shul with a Pool: The “Synagogue-center” in American Jewish History. Lebanon: University Press of New England, 1999.
Marcus, Jacob Rader. The Colonial America Jew, 1492-1775, 3 vols. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970.
Marcus, Jacob Rader. The Jew in the American World: A Source Book. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996.
Mirvis, Stanley. “Shadarim in the Colonial Americas: Agents of Inter-Communal Connectivity and Rabbinic Authority, American Jewish History 102, No. 2 ( 2018): 221-236.
Moore, Deborah Dash. “When Jews Were GIs: How World War II Changed a Generation and Remade American Jewry.” In American Jewish Identity Politics, edited by Deborah Dash Moore. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008
Naar, Devin E. “Turkinos beyond the Empire: Ottoman Jews in America, 1893 to 1924,” Jewish Quarterly Review 105, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 174-205.
Pew Research Center, “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” Berman Jewish Databank, 2013, https://www.jewishdatabank.org/databank/search-results/study/715 (access June 21, 2019).
Pitock, Toni. “’Separated as Far as West is from East’: Eighteenth-Century Ashkenazi Immigrants in the Atlantic World.” American Jewish History, 102, No. 2 ( 2018): 173-193.
Prinz, Deborah R. On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao. 2nd ed. Nashville: Turner Publishing, 2017.
Rabin, Shari. Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-century America.
New York: NYU Press, 2017.
Rabin, Shari. “People of the Press: The Occident, The Israelite, and the Origins of American Judaism.” In By Dawn’s Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nations Founding to the Civil War, 75-82. Edited by Adam D. Mendelsohn (Princeton: Princeton University Library, 2016.
Roth, Laurence. “Jewish American Comic Books and Graphic Novels.” In The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature, edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher, 566–583. Cambridge U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Rothenberg, Celia. Serious Fun at a Jewish Community Summer Camp: Family, Judaism, and Israel. United States: Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016.
Sarna, Jonathan D. American Judaism: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Sarna, Jonathan D. American Judaism: A History, 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
Sarna, Jonathan. When General Grant Expelled the Jews. New York: Schocken Books, 2012.
Schwartz, Matthew B. Jews in America: The First 500 Years. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2019.
Simpson, Brooks D. Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Snyder, Holly. “English Markets, Jewish Merchants, and Atlantic Endeavors: Jews and the Making of British Transatlantic Commercial Culture, 1650-1800.” In Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800, edited by Richard L. Kagan and Philip D. Morgan, 50-74. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Stahl, Ronit, Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017.
Surdam, David S. (1999), “Traders or traitors Northern cotton trading during the Civil War,” Business and Economic History, 28(2): 299-310.
Wilburn, Cora. Cosella Wayne, edited and introduced by Jonathan D. Sarna. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2019.
Midwest & Great Plains
Abrams, Jeanne. Blazing the Tuberculosis Trail: The Religio-Ethnic Role of Four Sanatoria in Early Denver. Denver, CO: Colorado Historical Society, 1990.
Gendler, Carol. “Pioneer Jews of Omaha: The First Sixty Years.” Western States Jewish History 49, no. 2 (2017): 175–240.
Wolin, Penny Diane. The Jews of Wyoming: Fringe of the Diaspora. Buffalo, WY: Crazy Woman Creek Press, 2000.
Northeast
Ben-Jacob, Michael. “Nathan Simson: A Biographical Sketch of a Colonial Jewish Merchant.” American Jewish Archives 51, no. 1 (1999): 11-37.
Chiel, Arthur. “The Mystery of the Rabbi’s Lost Portrait,” Judaism 22, No. 4 (1973): 482-287.
Cohen, Steven M, Jacob B Ukeles, and Ron Miller. “Jewish Community Study of Jewish New York: 2011. Comprehensive Report.” New York: UJA-Federation of New York, 2012.
Davis, Natalie Zemon. “David Nassy’s ‘Furlough’ and the Slave Mattheus.” In New Essays in American Jewish History, edited by Pamela S. Nadell, 79-94. Cincinnati, OH:American Jewish Archives, 2010.
De Sola Pool, David, and Tamar Hirschensohn de Sola Pool. 1955. An Old Faith in the New World. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955.
Epstein, Lawrence J. At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side, 1880-1920 United Kingdom: San Francisco: Wiley, 2007.
Fried, Louis. “Jacob Riis and the Jews: The Ambivalent Quest for Community.” American Studies 20, no. 1 (1979): 5-24.
Gutstein, Morris Aaron. The Story of the Jews of Newport: Two and a Half Centuries of Judaism, 1658-1908. New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1936.
Hoberman, Michael. New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press 2011.
Leibman, Laura Arnold. Art of the Jewish Family. New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2020.
Leibman, Laura. “From Holy Land to New England Canaan: Rabbi Haim Carigal and Sephardic Itinerant Preaching in the Eighteenth Century,” Early American Literature 44, No. 1 (2009): 71-93.
Leibman, Laura Arnold. “Jewish Healers and Yellow Fever in the Eighteenth-Century Americas.” Jewish Social Studies 26, no. 1 (2020): 77-90.
Leibman, Laura Arnold “Virus as Hyperobject: Jews of the Early Atlantic World and Yellow Fever Epidemics,” Routledge Handbook of Material Religion, edited by S. Brent Rodriguez Plate, Jennifer Hughes and Pooyan Tamimi Arab. New York: Routledge, 2022.
Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site: General Management Plan and Environmental Assessment. Philadelphia: National Park Service, U.S.Department of the Interior, 2006.
Morais, Henry S. The Jews of Philadelphia: Their History from the Earliest Settlements to the Present Time. Philadelphia: Levytype, 1894.
Nusco, Kimberly, “The South Providence Kosher Meat Boycott of 1910,” Rhode Island Jewish Historical Notes, 14, no. 1 (2003): 96-126.
Oppenheim, Samuel. “Will of Nathan Simson, a Jewish Merchant in New York Before 1722, and Genealogical Note Concerning Him and Joseph Simson.” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, no. 25 (1917): 87–91.
Polland, Annie, and Soyer, Daniel. Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
Rock, Howard B. Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865. New York: NYU Press, 2015.
Rosenbloom, Joseph R. “Rebecca Gratz and the Jewish Sunday School Movement in Philadelphia,” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 48 (1958): 71–78.
Smith and Sarna, “Introduction the Jews of Rhode Island,” In The Jews of Rhode Island, edited by Ellen Smith, 1-10. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2004.
Wolf, Edwin, and Maxwell Whiteman. The History of the Jews of Philadelphia: From Colonial Times to the Age of Jackson. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1975.
South
Anonymous, “A Jewish View on Segregation,” Association of Citizens’ Councils of Mississippi, n.d. Online: http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/ref/collection/citizens/id/612, and in A Coat of Many Colors: Jewish Subcommunities in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977, pp. 111-117.
Bingham, Emily. Mordecai: An Early American Family. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Dornan, Inge. “Masterful Women: Colonial Women Slaveowners in the Urban Low Country” Journal of American Studies 39 (2005): 383–402.
Ferris, Marcie Cohen, and Mark I. Greenberg. Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2006.
Ford, Emily, and Barry Stiefel. The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta: A History of Life and Community Along the Bayou. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing Incorporated, 2012.
Goldstein, Eric. “’Now is the Time to Show Your True Colors’: Southern Jews, Whiteness, and the Rise of Jim Crow.” In Jewish Roots in Southern Soil, edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg. 134-155. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2006.
Hertzberg, Steven. Strangers in the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1978.
Kole, Kaye. The Minis Family of Georgia, 1733-1992. Savannah: Georgia Historical Society, 1992.
Mixon, Gregory. The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in A New South City. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005.
Moore, Deborah Dash, “Freedom’s Fruits: the Americanization of an Old-time Religion,” in A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life, edited by Theodore Rosengarten, Theodore and Dale Rosengarten, 10-21. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.
Rosen, Robert N. The Jewish Confederates. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.
Rosengarten, Theodore, and Dale Rosengarten, eds. A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.
Stiefel, Barry L. “David Lopez, Jr. (1809-84): Builder, Defender of the Confederacy, and Industrialist,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 64:1, (2012), 53-81.
Tarshish, Allan. “The Charleston Organ Case.” American Jewish Historical Quarterly 54, no. 4 (1965): 411–49. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23874376.
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Southwest
Herz, Cary. New Mexico’s Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory. Albuquerque: University of New
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Hordes, Stanley M. To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
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West Coast
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South America
Journal: Latin American Jewish Studies
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Argentina
Bell, Lawrence. “Bitter Conquest: Zionists Against Progressive Jews and the Making of
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DAIA, Centro de Estudios Sociales de. “Informe sobre la situación de los detenidos-desaparecidos judíos durante el genocidio perpetrado en Argentina 1976-1983.” Buenos Aires: DAIA, 2007.
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Gerchunoff, Alberto, and Prudencio de Pereda. The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas. Jewish Latin America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.
Glickman, Nora. The Jewish White Slave Trade and the Untold Story of Raquel Liberman. New York: Routledge, 1999.
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Harel, Isser. The House on Garibaldi Street, Viking, 1975.
Jacobson, Shari. “Body and Soul: Therapeutic Dimensions of Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy in Neoliberal Argentina.” In The New Jewish Argentina: Facets of Jewish Experiences in the Southern Cone, edited by Adriana Brodsky and Raanan Rein, 341-64: Brill, 2012.
Jmelnizky, Adrián, and Ezequiel Erdei. La población judía de Buenos Aires: estudio sociodemográfico. Colección Investigaciones. Buenos Aires, Argentina: AMIA, JOINT, MEIDÁ, 2005.
Klor, Sebastian. Between Exile and Exodus: Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948-1967. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2017.
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Seider, Shari. “Looking Forward to the Past: The Ultra-Orthodox Community of Buenos Aires, Argentina.” Stanford University, 1999.
Senkman, Leonardo. Argentina, la Segunda Guerra Mundial y los refugiados indeseables, 1933-1945. 1a ed. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, 1991.
Szurmuk, Monica, ed. Entre lenguas y mundos: Josep Sabah. Las cartas de un maestro de la Alliance Israélite Universelle desde el litoral. Edited by Sergio Delgado, El País del Sauce. Paraná, Entre Ríos: EDUNER, 2019.
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Yarfitz, Mir. Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019.
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Zaretsky, Natasha. Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press, 2020.
Brazil
Blocker, Merrie. “Brazilian Jewish Farmers Tell Their Stories,” https://thebaronhirschcommunity.org/brazilian-jewish-colonists-tell-their-stories/
Gherman, Michel. 2018. “Jews, Zionism and the Left in Brazil: Echoes of a Relationship.” Analysis of Current Trends in Antisemitism – ACTA, vol. 39, no. 2. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/10.1515/actap-2018-0002.
Hussar, James A. Cycling Through the Pampas: Fictionalized Accounts of Jewish Agricultural Colonization in Argentina and Brazil. 2008. University of Notre Dame, PhD dissertation. Semantic Scholar, ed https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7a75/511fa06368b2f9d23200beda80b58221860b.pdf. AccessNov. 15, 2019.
Igel, Regina. “Three Women Jewish Writers of Brazil”. Passion, Memory and Identity, Twentieth-Century Latin American Jewish Women Writers, edited by Marjorie Agosin, University of New Mexico Press, 1999, pp. 59-84.
———–. “Frida Alexandr.” Jewish Women, A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Shalvi Publishing Ltd. Jerusalem, 2006. JWA https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/alexandr-frida. Accessed Nov. 26, 2019
Israel, Jonathan I. “Dutch Sephardi Jewry, Millenarian Politics, and the Struggle for Brazil, 1640-1654.” In Sceptics, Millenarians, and Jews, edited by Jonathan I. Israel and David S. Katz, 76-97. Leiden: Brill, 1990.
Klein, Misha. Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.
Lesser, Jeffrey. Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question. Berkeley: University of California, 1994.
Miller, Susan Gilson. “Kippur on the Amazon. Jewish Emigration from Northern Morocco in the Late Nineteenth Century.” In Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era, edited by Harvey E. Goldberg, 190-209. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Mott, Luiz. “Crypto-Sodomites in Colonial Brazil.” In Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, ed. Pete Sigal, 168–196. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Rom, Michael. “Brazilian Belonging: Jewish Politics in Cold War Brazil, 1930-1985.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale University, 2019.
Vainfas, Ronaldo. “The Nefarious and the Colony.” In Pelo Vaso Traseiro: Sodomy and Sodomites in Luso-Brazilian History, eds. Harold Johnson and Francis A. Dutra, 337–368. Tucson: Fenestra Books, 2006.
Weitman, David, and Marco Maciel. Bandeirantes espirituais do Brasil rabinos Isaac Aboab da Fonseca e Mosseh Rephael d’Aguilar: século XVII. São Paulo, Brazil: Maayanot, 2003.
Chile
Böhm, G. Apuntes para una historia de los judíos en Chile (Cuaderno Judaico; no. 2). Santiago: Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Educación, 1971.
Navarro-Rosenblatt, Valeria,. “The Untold History: Voices of Non-affiliated Jews in Chile, 1940–1990”, iRein, Raanan, Stefan H. Rinke, and Nadia Zysman. 2017. The New Ethnic studies in Latin America; Leiden. Boston: Brill, 128-147.
Nes-el, M. Estudios sobre el judaísmo chileno. Jerusalén: Ediciones Revista de Oriente y Occidente, 2009.
Peru
Böhm, G. Inmigración de judíos de habla alemana a Chile y Perú durante el siglo XIX. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 1988.
Schaposchnik, Ana. The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto Jews in Seventeenth Century Peru. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2015.
Silverblatt, Irene. Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
Silverblatt, Irene. “New Christians and New World Fears in Seventeenth-Century Peru,” Comparative Studies in Society and History. 42, no. 3 (2000): 524-546.
Yalonetzky, Romina. Gente Como Uno: Class, Belonging, and Transnationalism in Jewish Life in Lima. Brookline, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2021.
Venezuela
Aizenberg, Isidoro. La comunidad judía de Coro 1824-1900. Una historia. Caracas: Asociación Israelita de Venezuela-Centro de Estudios Sefardíes de Caracas, 1995.
De Lima, Blanca. Los Senior de Coro. Caracas: Editor Morris Senior Pérez- Fundación Los Senior de Coro, 2018.
De Lima, Blanca. El cambio cultural en una familia sefardita: los Senior López Henríquez de Coro, Venezuela (1861-1972). Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies 5 (2018- March 2019): 48 – 64.
Garrido, Néstor. «Hallan estructura similar a una mikve en la Casa de los Senior». En: Maguén Escudo. Asociación Israelita de Venezuela, nº 169, octubre-diciembre 2013, pp. 9-10.
González, Carlos. Coro. Historia de su conservación monumental. Caracas: Edición Fundación Banco Mercantil, 2002.
Pitters, Williams. Importancia y uso en la cultura judía de la mikvé encontrada en la ciudad de Coro. Revista Multiciencias de la Universidad del Zulia, Vol. 17, No. 3, Número Extraordinario de 2016.
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Methods
Architecture
Bergoffen, Celia J. “The Lower East Side’s Synagogue, Tenement, and Russian Bathhouse: Mikva’ot and the Excavation of a Mikvah at 5 Allen Street”.” American Jewish History 101, no. 2 (2017): 163-196. doi:10.1353/ajh.2017.0026.
Kalmar, Ivan D. “Moorish Style: Orientalism, the Jews, and Synagogue Architecture.” Jewish Social Studies, 7, no. 3 (2001): 68–100. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4467611
Polland, Annie. Landmark of the Spirit: the Eldridge Street Synagogue. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
Raphael, Marc Lee. The Synagogue in America: A Short History. New York: NYU Press, 2011.
Stiefel, Barry L. Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World: A Social and Architectural History Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
Diasporas
Safran, William. “Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 1, no. 1 (1991): 83-99. doi:10.1353/dsp.1991.0004.
Gender & Sexuality
Ashton, Dianne. Rebecca Gratz: Women and Judaism in Antebellum America. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2015.
Ashton, Dianne. “Shifting Veils: Religion, Politics, and Womanhood in the Civil War Writings of American Jewish Women.” In Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives. Edited by Pamela Susan Nadell and Jonathan D. Sarna, 81-106. Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2001.
Bérubé, Allan. Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II, 20th Anniversary Edition (University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
Dzmura, Noach, ed. Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2014.
Gelles, Edith Belle. ed. The Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks, 1733-1748. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Giles, Mary E. Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Goldman, Karla. Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism. Harvard University Press, 2000.
Gordan, Rachel. “Alfred Kinsey and the Remaking of Jewish Sexuality in the Wake of the Holocaust.” Jewish Social Studies 20:3 (2014), 72–99.
Green, Nicki and S.J. Crasnow. “‘Artifacts from the Future’: The Queer Power of Trans Ritual
Objects.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 6, no. 3 (August 2019): 403-408.
Hyman, Paula E., Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995.
Hyman, Paula E. “Immigrant Women and Consumer Protest: The New York City Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902,” American Jewish History, 70, no. 1 (1980): 91-105.
Kaplan, Yosef, “Moral Panic in the Eighteenth Century Sephardi Community of Amsterdam: The Threat of Eros,” In Dutch Jewry: Its History and Secular Culture (1500-2000), edited by Jonathan Israel and R. Salverda, 103-123. Leiden: Brill, 2001.
Katz, Jonathan Ned, and Randall Sell. “‘Millions of Queers’: A View from 1940.” Gay and Lesbian Review, Jan–Feb 2015, 23–26 (http://www.glreview.org/article/millions-of-queers-a-view-from-1940/).
Katz, Jonathan Ned. “Analyzing Allen Bernstein’s ‘MILLIONS OF QUEERS (Our Homo America).’” OutHistory, 2014 (http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/1940-defense/ katz-bernstein).
Ladin, Joy. Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
Leibman, Laura Arnold. Art of the Jewish Family. New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2020.
Morgan-Feir, Caoimhe. “An Artist’s Ritual Bath for Trans and Queer Communities.” Canadian
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February 7, 2020.
Moore, Deborah Dash, “Signposts: Reflections on Articles from the Journal’s Archive: How a Kosher Meat Boycott Brought Jewish Women’s History into the Mainstream — A Historical Appreciation,” 99, no. 1 (2015): 79-91.
Nadell, Pamela. America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019
Nadell, Pamela S. and Jonathan D. Sarna, eds. Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis University Press, 2001.
Prell, Riv-Ellen. Fighting to Become American: Assimilation and the Trouble Between Jewish Women and Jewish Men. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.
Schneer, David and Caryn Aviv, ed. Queer Jews. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Sienna, Noam. A Rainbow Thread: an Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969. Philadelphia: Print-O-Craft Press, 2019.
Stein, Abby. Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman. New York: Basic Books, 2019.
“#TorahForTheResistance: The Queer Mikveh Project.” January 14, 2018.
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Vincent, Isabel. Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Zeveloff, Naomi and Max Strassfeld, eds. Transgender and Jewish. New York: Forward Association Incorporated, 2014.
Literature
Hoberman, Michael. A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (n.d.).
Leibman, Laura Arnold. “Poetics of the Apocalypse: Messianism in Early Jewish American Poetry.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 33, no. 1 (2014): 41.
Rubinstein, Becky, editor and translator. Tres caminos: El germen de la literatura judía en México. México: Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, 1997.
Estraikh, Gennady. Yiddish in the Cold War. London: Legenda, 2008.
Material Culture
Albrecht, Donald. Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism. San Francisco:
The Contemporary Jewish Museum, 2014.
Brilliant, Richard, ed. Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America. New York: Jewish Museum, 1997.
Braunstein, Susan L. Luminous Art: Hanukkah Menorahs of the Jewish Museum. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Deetz, James. In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life. New York: Doubleday, 1997.
Fine, Steven. The Menorah. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.
Greenspoon, Leonard and Ronald Simkins, eds. Food and Judaism. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2005.
Joselit, Jenna Weissman. The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950. New
York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994.
Leibman, Laura Arnold. “Early American Mikvaot: Ritual Baths as the Hope of Israel.” Religion in the Age of Enlightenment 1: 109-145. Reprinted in American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience, ed. Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm. London: Continuum, 2015.
—–. “The Material of Race: Clothing, Anti-Semitism, and Manhood in the Caribbean During the Era of Emancipation,” In Jews, Liberalism, Anti-Semitism: A Global History, ed. Abigail Green and Simon Levis Sullam, 97-130. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
—–. Messianism, Secrecy, Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2012.
Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert: A Retrospective. The Jewish Museum, New York. March 31-August 8,
1976. New York: The Jewish Museum, 1976.
Lufkin, Sophia C. “A Home between Death and Life: Mausoleums as Liminal Spaces of Memory for Classical Reform Jews of Temple Emanu-El, 1890–1945.” American Jewish History 101, no. 2 (April 2017): 121-161.
Mann, Vivian. The Jewish Museum. London and New York: Scala Books and The Jewish Museum, 1993.
Pongracz, Patricia C., ed. Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion. London: D. Giles, Ltd., 2012.
Sabar, Shalom. Ketubbah: The Art of the Jewish Marriage Contract. Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 2000.
Sandler Perten, Rebecca. Postwar “American Jewish Religious Identity, Ritual Objects, and
Modern Design: Ludwig Y. Wolpert, the Tobe Pascher Workshop, and the Joint Committee on Ceremonies of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations/Central Conference of American Rabbis.” PhD dissertation. Bard Graduate Center, 2019.
Music
Mendoza de Arce, Daniel. Music in Ibero-America to 1850 : a historical survey. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
Baker, Zachary. “‘Gvald, Yidn, Buena Gente’: Jevel Katz, Yiddish Bard of the Río de la Plata.” Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business. Joel Berkowitz and Barbara J. Henry, eds. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2012. 202-22.
—. “‘More Argentine than Martín Fierro’: Jevel Katz’s Début in Buenos Aires, 1930.” Digital Yiddish Theatre Project. February 2019, https://yiddishstage.org/jevel_katz.
Cohen, Judah M. Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.
Cohen, Judah M. The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019.
Frühauf, Tina. Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener’s Companion. United States: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.
Svarch, Ariel. “Der freylekhster yid in Argentine: The Life and Death of Jevl Katz, Popular Artist of the 1930s.” Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America. Malena Chinski and Alan Astro, eds. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2018. 225-39.
—. “Mucho lujo: Jevl Katz y las complejidades del espectáculo étnico-popular en Buenos Aires, 1930-1940.” Istor: Revista de Historia Internacional. 14:53 (2013). 65-78.
Weldon, Joshua, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Race
Berman, Paul, ed. Blacks and Jews: Alliances and Argument. McHenry, Illinois: Delta Publishing, 1994.
Brodkin, Karen. How Jews Became White Folks & What That Says About Race in America. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Bruder, Edith. The Black Jews of Africa: Identity, Religion, History. New York, Oxford University Press, 2012.
Bruder, Edith. “The Proto-History of Igbo Jewish Identity from the Colonial Period to the Biafra War,1890-1970.” In African Zion: Studies in Black Judaism, ed. Edith Bruder E. and Tudor Parfitt, 31-64. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
Deutsch, Sandra McGee. “Insecure Whiteness: Jews between Civilization and Barbarism, 1880s-1940s.” In Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina: Shades of the Nation, edited by Eduardo Elena and Paulina Alberto, 25-52. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Eakin, Marshall C. Becoming Brazilians: Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017
Eisenberg, Ellen, ed. Jews as Whites, Jews as Others: Relational Identities in the American West. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2022.
Fernheimer, Janice W. Stepping Into Zion: Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Fields, Karen E., and Fields, Barbara Jeanne. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. London: Verso, 2014.
Goldstein, Eric. The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Haynes, Bruce D. The Soul of Judaism, Jews of African Descent in America. New York: New York University Press, 2018.
Koffman, David S. The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019.
Lerner, Michael and Cornel West. Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin. New York: Putnam Adult, 1995.
Rubinstein, Rachel. Members of the Tribe: Native Americans in the Jewish Imagination. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010.
Scorsch, Jonathan. Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Schorsch, Jonathan, “Revisiting Blackness, Slavery, and Jewishness in the Early Modern Sephardic Atlantic.” In Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities, ed. Yosef Kaplan, 512-540. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Telles, Edward. Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
UJA – Federation of New York. “Special Study on Nonwhite, Hispanic, and Multiracial Jewish Households.” Berman Jewish Databank. June 2014. https://www.jewishdatabank.org.
Slavery
Faber, Eli. Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Leibman, Laura Arnold. Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Schorsch, Jonathan, “Transformations in the Manumission of Slaves by Jews from East to West: Pressures from the Atlantic Slave Trade.” In Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World, edited by Rosemary Brana-Shute & Randy J. Sparks, 69-96. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2009.