FOR CHILDREN GRADES 2 - 12
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLONIAL JEWS
TO JUMP START YOUR IDEAS
by Ellen
G. Cole, AJLSC
Librarian, Levine Library, Temple Isaiah, Los Angeles
Librarian, Levine Library, Temple Isaiah, Los Angeles
COLLECTED BIOGRAPHIES
| Alofsin, Dorothy
|
America's Triumph: Stories of American
Jewish Heroes |
UAHC, 1949 |
| Brody, Seymour |
Jewish Heroes in America |
Shapolsky, 1981 |
| Zeldin, Florence |
The Importance of One |
KTAV, 1980 |
INDIVIDUAL
BIOGRAPHIES
(alphabetical by person)
| Hahn, Emily
|
Aboab: First Rabbi of the Americas |
JPS, 1959 |
| Biskin, Miriam |
Pattern for a Heroine (Rebecca
Gratz) |
UAHC, 1967 |
| Abrahams, Robert |
The Commodore (Uriah Philips
Levy) |
JPS, 1954 |
| Alexander, Lloyd |
The Flagship Hope (Aaron Lopez) |
JPS, 1960 |
| Wise, William |
Silversmith of Old New York (Myer
Meyers) |
JPS, 1958 |
| Knight, Vicki |
Send for Haym Salomon |
Borden, 1976 |
| Milgrim, Shirley |
Haym Salomon: Liberty's Son |
JPS, 1975 |
NOVELS and SHORT STORIES
| Belth, Norton
|
Colonial Stories in The Second
World Over Story Book |
JEC/NY, 1970 |
| Burstein, Abraham |
Adventures on Manhattan Island |
Jonathan David, 1957 |
| Bush, Lawrence |
"Strangers in a Strange Land" in Rooftop
Secrets |
UAHC, 1986 |
| Green, Diane Huss |
The Lonely War of William Pinto |
Little, Brown, 1968 |
| Greene, Jacqueline |
Out of Many Waters |
Walker, 1988 |
| Kubie, Nora |
Joel: A Novel of Young America |
Harper, 1952 |
| Schloss,E & Epstein,M |
Colonial Stories in "The American
Scene" in More World Over Stories |
Bloch, 1968 |
PICTURE BOOKS
| Costabel, Eve
|
The Jews of New Amsterdam |
Atheneum, 1988 |
| Lobel, Arnold |
On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed
into Town |
Harper, 1971 |
HISTORIES
(See appropriate chapters, pages, charts, and pictures) (*General rather than Jewish-American)
(See appropriate chapters, pages, charts, and pictures) (*General rather than Jewish-American)
| Brenner, Barbara |
If You Were There in 1492 |
Bradbury, 1991 |
| Brownstone, David |
The Jewish-American Heritage |
Facts on File, 1988 |
| Butwin, Frances |
The Jews of America: History
and Sources |
Behrman House, 1973 |
| Diner, Hasia |
Jews in America |
Oxford Univ., 1999 |
| Eisenberg,A. & Goodman,H. |
Eyewitness to American Jewish History,
Part I |
UAHC, 1976 |
| Ezratty, Harry |
They Led the Way: Creators of Jewish
America |
Omni Arts, 1999 |
| Finkelstein, Norman |
The Other 1492: Settlement in
the New World |
Scribner's, 1989 |
| Fisher, Leonard E. |
To Bigotry No Sanction: Story
of the Oldest Synagogue |
Holiday House, 1998 |
| Ish-Kishor, Sulamith |
American Promise: A History of Jews
in the New World |
Behrman House, 1947 |
| Karp, Abraham, ed. |
Beginnings in Early American Judaica
(1761-1845) |
JPS, 1975 |
| Karp, Deborah |
Heroes of American Jewish History |
KTAV, 1972 |
| Kenvin, Helene |
This Land of Liberty: A History
of America's Jews |
Behrman House, 1986 |
| Klaperman, Gilbert & L. |
Story of the Jewish People: From
Settlement of America... |
Behrman House, 1961 |
| Leiman, Sondra |
America: The Jewish Experience |
UAHC, 1994 |
| Levitan, Tina |
Jews in American Life from 1492 to
the Space Age |
Hebrew Pub., 1969 |
| Levinger, Elma |
Jewish Adventures in America |
Bloch, 1958 |
| Levinger, Lee |
A History of the Jews in the United
States |
UAHC, 1956 |
| Malamed, Sandra |
The Jews in Early America: A Chronicle
of Good... |
Fifthian Press, 2003 |
| McGovern, Ann* |
If You Lived in Colonial Times |
Scholastic, 1964 |
| Meltzer, Milton |
The Jews in America: A Picture Album |
JPS, 1985 |
| Muggamin, Howard |
The Jewish Americans |
Chelsea House, 1988 |
| Pessin, Deborah |
A History of the Jews in America |
United Synagogue, 1957 |
| Rubin, Susan Goldman |
L'Haym | Harry N. Abrams, 2004 |
| Telushkin, Joseph |
The Golden Land: The Story of Jewish
Immigration... |
Harmony (Crown), 2002 |
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 |
| Myer Myer's 1794 Report on the Sunday
School at Shearith Israel in NYC - AJHS (get permission) |
| Skirball Cultural Center Gift Shop
-- Book Mark and Note (Peachy Levy Torah Mantle) |
| Skirball Cultural Center -- Myer Myer's
Exhibit Pre-Visit Lesson Guide for Educators, February 2002 |
| Skirball Cultural Center -- Play for
Children: "Myer Myers, Colonial Silversmith: An American Patriot" |
| Touro's Gift Shop -- Touro Synagogue
Commemorative 1982 U. S. Stamp (20 cent) |