American Jewish Experience

The Ohio State University
LIBRARIES
Jewish Studies Library

(a short bibliography)

Encyclopedias:

1. Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jerusalem : Keter, 1971-1972. 16
volumes.

[REF - BM50.E5] [JDC Index Table - BM50.E5 1974]

This is an up-to-date work containing signed scholarly articles of varying degrees of comprehensiveness pertaining to all aspects of Jewish history and culture. Most articles are accompanied by bibliographies. Volume one includes the index, general, rabbinical and bibliographical abbreviations, a Jewish calendar for the years 1920-2020, a list of Hebrew newspapers and periodicals, a chart of Hasidic dynasties, and other special features. Supplementary articles, e.g., "Hebrew Language", "Masorah", etc. and a corrigenda section, are included in volume 16.

2. Encyclopaedia Judaica. CD-ROM ed. [Jerusalem] : Judaica
Multimedia (Israel), 1997. 1 CD-ROM.

[JDC Office Room 308 - BM50.E5 1997]

This is an up-to-date work of the 1971-1972 edition of the Encyclopaedia
Judaica.

3.	The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1901-1906. 12 volumes.

[EHS MAI - DS102.8.J59 1901a] [JDC - DS102.8.J59 1907]
[STX - DS102.8.J59]

Although dated, this standard scholarly work remains useful for many of its
articles, biographies and bibliographies. The Jewish Encyclopedia: a guide to its contents, an aid to its use,by Louis Jacobs (New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1906) serves as an index to this work.

Indexes to Periodicals:

4.	Index to Jewish Periodicals. Cleveland : Index to Jewish Periodicals, 1963-

[JDC Index table - Z6367.I5]

This publication provides author and subject access to articles in selected
American and Anglo-Jewish journals. Book reviews are also indexed.

5.	Index of Articles on Jewish Studies [RAMBI] = Reshimat ma'amarim be-mada'e ha-Yahadut . Jerusalem : The Jewish National and University Library, 1966-

[JDC - Z6367.R45]

On-line edition available at:
http://sites.huji.ac.il/jnul/rambi/

This annual provides indexing for scholarly articles in journals and collected
works that pertain to all aspects of Jewish studies. The index is arranged by broad subject areas, e.g., Bible, Rabbinic literature and Jewish law, Jewish history in the Diaspora, The State of Israel. Each section has its own internal arrangement. Book reviews are also indexed. Separate author and subject indexes for Hebrew (and Yiddish) articles and the articles in European languages are provided.

Bibliography:

6.	Judaica Americana : a Bibliography of Publications to 1900 / compiled by Robert Singerman. New York : Greenwood Press, 1990. 2 volumes.

[JDC - Z6373.U5 S58 1990]

Full bibliographic descriptions for 6500 books, pamphlets and serials published in the United States 1640-1900. In addition, it includes locations for all known
copies of a work.

7.	Judaica Americana : an Annotated Bibliography of Publications from 1960-1990 / compiled by Nathan M. Kaganoff. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Publishing, Inc., 1995. 2 volumes.

[JDC - E184.J5 K34 1995]

Biography:

8.	The Concise dictionary of American Jewish Biography / Jacob Rader Marcus, editor ; Judith M. Daniels, associate editor. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Publishing, Inc., 1994. 2 volumes.

[JDC - E184.J5 C653 1994]

9.	Jewish Women in America : an Historical Encyclopedia / edited by Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore. New York : Routledge, 1997. 2 volumes.

[JDC WMN - DS115.2.J49 1998]

Periodicals (Selection)

Current issues are on the Periodicals shelf in JDC Reading room.

10.	The American Jewish Archives Journal / published by The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Cincinnati, 1948-

[MAI - E184.J5 A37]

Also available on microfilm.

A Journal devoted to the Preservation and Study of the American Jewish
Experience.

11.	American Jewish History / an American Jewish Historical Society Publication. Waltham : American Jewish Historical Society, 1893-

[STX MAI - E184.J5 A45] [MAI - E184.J5 A452]

On-line edition available at:

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/10863141

12.	Contemporary Jewry / the Journal of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry. New York : Center for Jewish Studies, 1975-

[MAI - HM1.J4] [MAI - HM1.J42]

13.	Jewish History. Haifa, Israel : Haifa University Press, 1986-

[MAI - DS101.J46556]

14.	Jewish Social Studies : History, Culture, Society. New York, etc., 1939-

[MAI - DS101.J62]

On-line edition available at:

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/15272028

"A Journal devoted to Contemporary and Historical Aspects of Jewish Life."

15.	Shofar : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University, 1982-

[MAI - BM1.S45]

Monographs:

16.	Barkai, Avraham. Branching Out: German-Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1820-1914. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1994.

[MAI - E184.J5 B34 1994]

17.	Cohen, Naomi W. Encounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States, 1830-1914. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1984.

[MAI - E184.J5 C534 1984]

18.	Diner, Hasia R. A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 (Vol. 2 of The Jewish People in America)

[JDC MAI - E184.J5 D54 1992]

19.	Dinnerstein, Leonard. Antisemitism in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

[MAI STX - DS146.U6 D5498 1994]

20.	Faber, Eli. A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1820. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. (Vol. 1 of The Jewish People in America)

[JDC MAI - E184.J5 F22 1992]

21.	Feingold, Henry L. Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

[LIM - D804.3.F45 1995]

22.	Feingold, Henry L. A Time for Searching: Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. (Vol. 4 of The Jewish People in America)

[JDC MAI - E184.J5 F2499 1992]

23.	Gerber, David A. (editor). Anti-Semitism in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

[MAI - DS146.U6 A58 1986]

24.	Glenn, Susan A. Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.

[MAI WMN - HD6073.C62 U54 1990]

25.	Heilman, Samuel C. Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995.

[EHS - E184.J5 H5345 1995]

26.	Hertzberg, Arthur. The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.

[MAI STX - E184.J5 H484 1989]

27.	Higham, John. Send These to Me: Jews and Other Immigrants in Urban America. New York: Atheneum, 1975.

[MAI - E184.A1 H49]

Revised edition, 1984: [MAI STX - E184.A1 H49 1984]

28.	Howe, Irving. World of Our Fathers: The Immigrant Jews of New York, 1881 to the Present. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.

[MAI STX - F128.9.J5 H6] [MAI - F128.9.J5 H6 1976b]

29.	Jick, Leon A. The Americanization of the Synagogue, 1820-1870. Hanover, N.H.: Published for Brandeis University Press by the University Press of New England, 1976.

[MAI - BM205.J53]

30.	Korn, Bertram W. American Jewry and the Civil War. 2nd. ed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1970.

[STX - E540.J5 K67 1995]

31.	Marcus, Jacob Rader. The Colonial American Jew: 1492-1776. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970. 3 volumes.

[MAI - E29.J5 M3]

32.	Marcus, Jacob Rader. United States Jewry, 1776-1985. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989. 4 volumes.

[MAI - E184.J5 M3447 1989]

33.	Marcus, Jacob Rader. (editor). The Jew in the American World: A Source Book. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996.

[EHS - E184.J5 J465 1996]

34.	Rezneck, Samuel. Unrecognized Patriots: The Jews in the American Revolution. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975.

[MAI - E269.J5 R49]

35.	Rosen, Robert N. The Jewish Confederates. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2000.

[MAI - F220.J5 R67 2000] [In process]

36.	Sachar, Howard Morley. A History of the Jews in America. New York: Knopf, 1992.

[MAI - E184.J5 S193 1992]

37.	Sarna, Jonathan D. (editor) The American Jewish Experience. 2nd ed. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1997.

[MAI - E184.J5 A34 1997] [On order]

38.	Sarna, Jonathan D. Jacksonian Jew: The Two Worlds of Mordecai Noah. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1981.

[MAI - E184.J5 S26]

39.	Sarna, Jonathan D. (editor & trans.) People Walk on Their Heads: Moses Weinberger's "Jews and Judaism in New York." New York: Holmes & Meier, 1981.

[MAI STX - F128.9.J5 W41]

40.	Sarna, Jonathan D., Benny Kraut, and Samuel K. Joseph, (editors) Jews and the Founding of the American Republic. New York: M. Wiener Pub., 1985.

[MAI - E184.J5 J58 1985]

41.	Schappes, Morris U. (editor). A Documentary History of the Jews in the United States, 1654-1875. 3rd ed. New York, Citadel Press, 1971.

[MAI - E184.J5 S35 1971]

42.	Shapiro, Edward S. A Time for Healing: American Jewry Since World War II. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. (Vol. 5 of The Jewish People in America)

[JDC MAI - E184.J5 S435 1992]

43.	Soyer, Daniel. Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

[MAI - F128.9.J5 S69 1997]

For book review : Go to H-Net Reviews

44.	Sussman, Lance J. Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995.

[MAI - BM755.L397 S84 1995]

45.	Wenger, Beth S. New York Jews and the Great Depression. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

[MAI - F128.9.J5 W46 1996]

46.	Wertheimer, Jack. A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

[MAI - BM205.W46 1993]

47.	Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

[MAI STX - D810.J4 W95 1984]

48.	Zola, Gary P. Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788-1829: Jewish Reformer and Intellectual. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994.

[MAI - F279.C49 J548 1994]

Last updated: January 18, 2001