HIST 208N: Creating Modern Jewish Identities in the US, 1880-1980

Lists over 100,000 different serial titles held by over 170 Israeli academic, special and public libraries and collections.

Abraham J. Edelheit is director of the Morehset Zvi Institute for Jewish Communal Affairs and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of history at Kingsborough Community College. Abraham has served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Asstes in the United States and is presently Historian in Residence at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. An active scholar, he is the author or co-author of ten books on Jewish and European history, including History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary . The late Hershel Edelheit a Holocaust survivor, was director of ERICH, a nonprofit research and educational institute dedicated to studying the twentieth-century Jewish experience.

[Prepared] under the auspices of the Abraham F. Rad Contemporary Jewish Film Archives at the Hebrew Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Organization and Information Department of the World Zionist Organization, University of Jerusalem The Division of Cinema at the University of Southern California.

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Jewish American literature covers a broad range of genres and literary works. Some of the United States' most compelling literature centers on the American Jewish experience; some of the most acclaimed authors write from the heart of their experience as Jewish Americans. This ground-breaking work is intended to guide readers and those who advise readers in selecting fiction and nonfiction books that match specific reading interests. It is the first readers' advisory guide to Jewish American literature. Like other titles in the Genreflecting Advisory Series, the book organizes titles by genre--mysteries, thrillers, historical fiction, science fiction and fantasy, stories of romance, and literary fiction. In addition, there are chapters on holocaust literature and on biography/autobiography. More than 700 titles are categorized and described. Each chapter is further organized by subgenre and theme. Award-winning titles are noted, as are books that appeal to young adult readers and titles appropriate for book clubs and reading discussions. In addition, the author presents guidelines for building and maintaining a collection of Jewish literature, tips for advising readers, and lists of further resources for exploring the genre; making this a thorough and practical resource. Young adult and adult - Grades 9 and up.

Source material on the history of Jewish immigration to the United States, 1800-1880.--The immigration of German Jews up to 1880.--Notes on early Jewish peddling in America.--German Jews in New York City in the 19th century.--The history of the Jewish community in New York.--The rise of the Jewish club in America.--The "bayer" and the "pollack" in America.--Jews in relation to the cultural milieu of the Germans in America up to the eighteen eighties.--Jews in early German-American literature.--German-Jewish names in America.--Jewish names in early American humor.--Jews and Chinese in America.--Jew and yankee: a historic comparison.--The Rothschild legend in America.--Jewish social conditions as seen by the muckrakers.