Blacks & Jews History
Selected Bibliography
The Most Controversial Books in America
Books
Abrahams, Israel. Jewish Life in the Middle Ages. New York: Atheneum,
1969.
Arkin, Marcus. Aspects of Jewish Economic History. Philadelphia: Jewish
Publication Society of America, 1975.
Ashkenazi, Elliott. The Business of Jew in New Orleans; 1840-1875. Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 1988.
___. Pictorial History of the Jewish People. New York: Crown Publications,
Inc., 1984.
Baron, Salo W. and Kahan, Arcadius et al, editors. Economic History of the
Jews. New York: Schocken Books, 1975.
Beller, Jacob. Jews in Latin America. New York: Jonathan David Publishers,
1969.
Berman, Myron. Richmond's Jewry 1769-1976: Shabbat in Shockoe. Charlottesville,
Virginia: Jewish Community Federation of Richmond by University Press of
Virginia, 1979.
Birnbaum, Philip. A Book of Jewish Concepts. New York: Hebrew Publishing
Company, 1975.
Blau, Joseph L. and Baron, Salo W. editors. The Jews of the United States,
1790-1840. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.
Bloom, Herbert I. The Economic Activities of the Jews of Amsterdam in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Port Washington, New York/London:
Kennikat Press, 1937.
Broches, S. Jews in New England. New York: Bloch Publishing, 1942.
Cohen, George. The Jews in the Making of America. Boston: Knights of Columbus.
Stratford Company, 1924.
Cohen, Henry. Justice, Justice: A Jewish View of the Black Revolution. New
York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1968.
Cohen, Robert. The Jewish Nation in Surinam Historical Essays. Amsterdam:
S. Emmering, 1982.
Davis-Dubois, Rachel and Schweppe, Emma editors. The Jews in American Life.
New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1935.
Donnan, Elizabeth. Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade
in America. Carnegie Institute of Washington, D.C., 4 vols. 1930-1935.
Elkin, Judith Laikin. Jews of the Latin American Republics. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
___. and Merkx, Gilbert W. The Jewish Presence in Latin America. Boston:
Allen & Unwin, Inc., 1987.
Elzas, Barnett A. Jews of South Carolina. Philadelphia: Lippincott Co.,
1905.
Emmanuel, Isaac S. The Jews of Coro, Venezuela. Cincinnati: American Jewish
Archives, 1973.
___. and Emmanuel, Susan A. History of the Jews of the Netherland Antilles.
Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1973.
Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jerusalem, Israel: Keter Publishing House, Ltd.,
1971.
Ezekiel, Herbert T. and Lichtenstein, Gaston. History of Jews of Richmond
1769-1917. Richmond, 1917.
Fein, Isaac M. The Making of an American Jewish Community: The History of
Baltimore Jewry from 1773-1920. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society
of America, 1971.
Feingold, Henry L. Zion in America: The Jewish Experience from Colonial
Times to the Present. New York: Twayne Publishing, Inc., 1974.
Feldstein, Stanley. The Land That I Show You: Three Centuries of Jewish
Life in America. New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978.
Feuerlicht, Roberta Strauss. The Fate of the Jews: A People Torn Between
Israeli Power and Jewish Ethics. New York: Times Books, 1983.
Fishman, Priscilla editor. Jews of the United States. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing
House, 1973.
Fortune, Stephen Alexander. Merchants and Jews: The Struggle for the British
West Indian Caribbean, 1650-1750. Gainsville: University Presses of Florida,
1984.
Freyre, Gilberto. Masters and Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian
Civilization. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
Freund, Miriam K. Jewish Merchants in Colonial America. New York: Behrman's
Jewish Book House, 1939.
Golden, Harry L. and Rywell, Martin. Jews in American History: Their Contribution
to the United States of America. Charlotte, North Carolina: Henry Lewis
Martin Co., 1950.
Goodman, Abram Vossen. American Overture: Jewish Rights in Colonial Times.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1947.
Goslinga, Cornelis Ch. A Short History of the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam.
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979.
Grayzel, Solomon. A History of the Jews. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society of America, 1947.
Heller, James G. Isaac M. Wise, His Life and Work and Thought. New York:
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1965.
Hershkowitz, Leo. Wills of Early New York Jews (1704-1799). New York: American
Jewish Historical Society, 1967.
Hirshler, Eric E. editor. Jews From Germany in the United States. New York:
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1955.
Hyamson, Albert M. A History of the Jew in England. London: Methuen &
Company, Ltd, 1908.
Karp, Abraham J. Haven and Home: A History of the Jews in America. New York:
Schocken Books, 1985.
___. The Jewish Experience in America: Selected Studies from the Publications
of the American Jewish Historical Society. Waltham, Massachusetts, 1969.
Korn, Bertram Wallace. American Jewry and the Civil War. Philadelphia: Jewish
Publication Society of America, 1951.
___. The Early Jews of New Orleans. Waltham, Massachusetts: American Jewish
Historical Society, 1969.
___. The Jews of Mobile, Alabama, 1763-1841. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College
Press, 1970.
Learsi, Rufus. The Jews in America: A History. New York: KTAV Publishing
House, Inc., 1972.
Lebeson, Anita Libman. Jewish Pioneers in America: 1492-1848. New York:
Behrman's Jewish Book House, 1938.
Levitan, Tina. Jews in American Life. New York: Hebrew Publishing Co., 1969.
Marcus, Jacob Rader.
Early American Jewry, Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America,
2 vol, 1951.
___. American Jewry: Documents of the Eighteenth Century. Cincinnati: Hebrew
College Union Press, 1959.
___. The Colonial American Jew: 1492-1776. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State
University Press, 1970.
___. Memoirs of American Jews 1775-1865. New York: KTAV Publishing House,
Inc., 3 vols, 1974.
___. The American Jewish Woman: A Documentary History. New York: KTAV Publishing
House, Inc., 1981.
___. United States Jewry, 1776-1985. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University
Press, 1989.
Pollins, Harold. Economic History of the Jews in England. East Brunswick,
New Jersey: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1982.
Pool, David De Sola. Portraits Etched in Stone: Early Jewish Settlers, 1682-1831.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.
Raphael, Marc Lee. Jews and Judaism in the United States: A Documentary
History. New York: Behrman House, Inc., 1983.
Reznikoff, Charles and Engelman, Uriah Z. The Jews of Charleston. Philadelphia:
The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1950.
Rischin, Moses editor. The Jews of North America. Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1987.
Rosenbloom, Joseph R. A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews:
Colonial Times through 1800. University of Kentucky Press, 1960.
Rosenwaike, Ira. On the Edge of Greatness: A Portrait of American Jewry
in the Early National Period. Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1985.
Roth, Cecil. Personalities and Events in Jewish History. Philadelphia: The
Jewish Publication Society of America, 1953.
Rywell, Martin. Jews in American History: Their Contribution to the United
States, 1492-1950. Charlotte, North Carolina: Henry Lewis Martin Co., 1950.
Sarna, Jonathon D. editor. The American Jewish Experience. New York/London:
Holmes and Meier Publishing, Inc., 1986.
___. Jacksonian Jew: The Two Worlds of Mordecai Noah. New York: Holmes and
Meir Publishing, Inc., 1981.
Schappes, Morris U. Documentary History of the Jews in the United States.
New York: The Citadel Press, 1950.
Sharfman, Harold. Jews on the Frontier. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1977.
Shpall, Leo. The Jews in Louisiana. New Orleans: Steeg Printing & Publishing
Co., 1956.
Siegel, Richard and Rheins, Carl editors. The Jewish Almanac. New York:
Bantam Books, Inc., 1980.
Simonhoff, Harry. Jewish Notables in America: 1776-1865. New York: Greenberg
Publisher, 1956.
___. Jewish Participants in the Civil War. New York: Arco Publishing Co.,
Inc., 1963.
Sloan, Irving J. editor. The Jews in America: 1621-1970. New York: Oceana
Publications, Inc. Dobbs Ferry, 1971.
Turitz, Rabbi Leo E. and Turitz, Evelyn. Jews in Early Mississippi. Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi, 1983.
Vorspan, Max and Gartner, Lloyd P. History of the Jews of Los Angeles. San
Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1970.
Wiznitzer, Arnold.
Jews in Colonial Brazil. Morningside Heights, New York: Columbia University
Press, 1960.
Wolf, Edwin 2nd and Whiteman, Maxwell. The History of the Jews of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1957.
Wolf, Simon. The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen. Philadelphia:
Levytype Company, 1895).
Articles
Bloom, Herbert I. "A Study of Brazilian Jewish History." Publications
of the American Jewish Historical Society, vol. 33, 1934.
Glanz, Rudolf. "Notes on Early Jewish Peddling in America." Jewish
Social Studies, vol. 7, 1945.
Grollman, Earl A. "Dictionary of American Jewish Biography in the 17th
Century." American Jewish Archives, vol. 3, 1950.
Hershkowitz, Leo. "Some Aspects of the New York Jewish Merchant and
Community, 1654 - 1820." American Jewish Historical Quarterly, vol.
66, 1976.
Hershkowitz, Leo. "Wills of Early New York Jews 1704-1799." American
Jewish Historical Quarterly, vol. 56, 1967.
Hühner, Leon. "The Jews of Virginia from the Earliest Times to
the Close of the Eighteenth Century." Publications of the American
Jewish Historical Society, vol. 20, 1911.
Hurwitz, Samuel J. and Hurwitz, Edith. "The New World Sets an Example
for the Old: The Jews of Jamaica and Political Rights 1661-1831." American
Jewish Historical Quarterly, vol. 55, 1965-66.
"The Jews of the Confederacy." American Jewish Archives, vol.
4, 1961.
Kohler, Max J. "Jewish Factors in Settlement of the West." Publications
of the American Jewish Historical Society, vol. 16, 1907.
___. "Phases of Jewish Life in New York before 1800." Publications
of the American Jewish Historical Society, vol. 2, 1894.
Korn, Bertram W. "Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789-1865,"
Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society. vol. 50, 1960.
Maslin, Simeon J. "1732 and 1982 in Curaçao." American
Jewish Historical Quarterly, vol. 72, 1982.
Oppenheim, Samuel. "An Early Jewish Colony in Western Guiana, 1658-1666:
And Its Relation to the Jews in Surinam, Cayenne and Tobago." Publications
of the American Jewish Historical Society, vol. 16, 1907.
Platt, Virginia Bever. "And Don't Forget the Guinea Voyage: The Slave
Trade of Aaron Lopez of Newport." William and Mary Quarterly, vol.
32, no. 4, 1975.
Smythe, Hugh H. and Price, Martin S. "The American Jew and Negro Slavery."
The Midwest Journal, vol. 7, no. 4, 1955-56.
Supple, Barry E. "A Business Elite: German-Jewish Financiers in Nineteenth-Century
New York." Business History, vol. 31, 1957.
Swetschinski, Daniel M. "Conflict and Opportunity in 'Europe's Other
Sea': The Adventure of Caribbean Jewish Settlement." American Jewish
Historical Quarterly, vol. 72, 1982.
Yerushaimi, Yosef Hayim. "Between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam: The
Place of Curaçao and the Caribbean in Early Modern Jewish History."
American Jewish Historical Quarterly, vol. 72, 1982.
There are, of course, many other sources for historical
analysis.
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