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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLONIAL JEWS
FOR ADULTS

by Ellen G. Cole, AJLSC,

Librarian, Levine Library, Temple Isaiah, Los Angeles


     NOVELS

Meyers, Maan
The Dutchman
Doubleday, 1992
Meyers, Maan
The Dutchman's Dilemma
Bantam Doubleday, 1995
Meyers, Maan
The Kingsbridge Plot
Doubleday, 1993
Meyers, Maan
The High Constable
Doubleday, 1994


     BIOGRAPHIES, HISTORIES AND DOCUMENTS
            (See appropriate chapters, pages, charts, and pictures)

Angel, Marc
Remnant of Israel...America's First Jewish Congregation
Riverside, 2004
Barquist, David
Myer Myers:  Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York
Yale, 2001
Dalin, D. & Kolatch, A.
The Presidents of the United States & the Jews
Jonathan David, 2000
de Sola Pool, David
Portraits Etched in Stone: Early Jewish Settlers 1682-1831
Columbia Univ., 1962
Diner, H. & Benderly, B.
Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present
Basic Books, 2002
Faber, Eli
A Time for Planting: The First Migration 1654-1820
Johns Hopkins, 1992
Feldstein, Stanley
The Land that I Show You:  Three Centuries of Jewish Life in America
Doubleday, 1978
Fishman, Priscilla, ed.
The Jews of the United States
Quadrangle, 1973
Fredman, J. & Falk, L.
Jews in American Wars
Jewish War Veterans, 1954
Glazer, Nathan
American Judaism
Univ. of Chicago, 1972
Godfrey, Sheldon
Search Out the Land: The Jews and the Growth of Equality in British Colonial America 1740-1867
McGill, 1995
Grinstein, Hyman
The Rise of the Jewish Community of New York 1654-1860
Jewish Publication Society, 1945
Karp, Abraham
The Jewish Experience in America: Vol. I - Colonial Period
KTAV, 1969
Klausner, Abraham
The Bicentennial Passover Haggadah
Emanuel Press, 1976
Kurtz, Seymour
Jewish America
McGraw-Hill, 1985
Leepson, Marc
Saving Monticello:  The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built.
Free Press, 2001
Malamed, Sandra
The Jews in Early America: A Chronicle of Good Taste and Good Deeds
Fifthian Press, 2003
Marcus, Jacob Rader
The American Jewish Woman 1654-1980
KTAV, 1981
Marcus, Jacob Rader
American Jewry Documents:  Eighteenth Century
Hebrew Union College, 1959
Marcus, Jacob Rader
United States Jewry 1776-1985
Wayne State, 1989
Nadell, P. & Sarna, J.
Women and American Judaism:  Historical Perspectives
Brandeis, 2001
Rezneck, Samuel
Unrecognized Patriots: The Jews in the American Revolution.
Greenwood Publ., 1975
Rosenberg, Roy
Everything You Need to Know About America's Jews and Their History
Plume, 1997
Sachar, Howard
A History of the Jews in America
Knopf, 1992
Sarna, Jonathan
American Judaism:  A New History
Yale, 2004
Schappes, Morris, ed.
Documentary History of the Jews in the United States: 1654-1875
Schocken, 1971
Shapiro, Michael
The Jewish 100:  A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of All Time
Carol, 1995
Wiernik, Peter
History of the Jews in America, from the Period of the Discovery of the New World to the Present Time
Sepher-Hermon, 1972
Wolf, Edwin
History of the Jews in Philadelphia:  From Colonial Times to the Age of Jackson
Jewish Publication Society, 1957
Wolf, Simon
The American Jew as a Patriot, Soldier and Citizen
Levytype, 1895


    PICTURE SOURCES

Assis, Yom
And I Shall Dwell Among Them:  Historic Synagogues...New World
Aperture, 1992
Brilliant, Richard
Facing the New World:  Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America
NY, Jewish Museum, 1997
Kleeblatt, N. & Werkin, G.
The Jewish Heritage in American Folk Art
Universe Books, 1984
London, Hannah
Portraits of Jews:  By Gilbert Stuart and Other Early American Artists
Wm. Rudge, 1927
Schappes, Morris
The Jews in the United States:  A Pictorial History 1654- ...
Citadel, 1958
Schoener, Allon, ed.
Jewish Life in America:  Fulfilling the American Dream
ADL, 1983


    MUSIC

Levin, Neil, compiler
Songs of the American Jewish Experience
Chicago Board of Education, 1976
Milken Archive CD
Jewish Voices in the New World
Recorded:  London, 2001


    PERIODICALS

Ben-Jacob, Michael.  "Nathan Simson: A Biographical Sketch of a Colonial Jewish Merchant" in The American Jewish Archives Journal, Vol. LI, Nos. 1 & 2, 1999.  pp. 11-37.
Foner, Jack D.  "Jews and the American Military from the Colonial Era to the Eve of the Civil War" in The American Jewish Archives Journal, Vol. LII, Nos. 1 & 2, 2000.  pp. 54-111.


     VIDEOS

Benedict Arnold:  A Question of Honor, by A&E Channel, week of January 12, 2003.  This video features Arnold's Jewish aide: David Salisbury Franks.
      Comments:  Dramatic license with costuming showing Franks wearing a Jewish star on a neck chan outside of his uniform (historically inaccurate).  Questionable bias to Arnold's actions.


    PAMPHLETS AND LETTERS FROM MUSEUMS & HISTORICAL LOCATIONS
             (See Webography about Colonial Jews for museums with websites.)

George Washington's Letter to the Touro Congregation via Touro's Gift Shop
1982 (20 cent) Touro Synagogue Commemorative U.S. Stamp via Touro's Gift Shop.
"History of the Touro Synagogue" by Theodore Lewis in the Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society, Vol. 48, Pt. 3, No. 159, Summer 1975.
The Mikveh Israel Cemetery  by Shirley Milgrim, edited by H. & L. Gilbert (my parents), 1980.
Skirball Cultural Center Gift Shop -- Book Mark and Note (Peachy Levy Torah Mantle)

   

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