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These three articles, the links to which are included here,
are important reading if you are teaching about the 350 years
of Jewish-American experience or even if you are just curious
about how scholars understand it.
Of particular interest is the article by David Kaufmann,
at the CAJE website. He writes about the various lenses through
which we can understand the history of Jews in America. We
can look at how Jews became American. We can look at how
Judaism has developed in America. Or we can look at how the
synthesis of Judaism and the American experience has created
an entirely new American Jewish culture. One idea that Kaufmann
suggests is that it is the American Jewish experience that
has greatly influenced American culture in the direction
of 'cultural pluralism', as opposed to the older idea of
American culture as a 'melting pot' in which immigrants would
lose their own identity.
The other two articles are by Jonathan Sarna, who is widely
acknowledged as the "dean" of American Jewish history
today. He has recently published what is being called the
definitive book about the subject - American Judaism, A History.
http://www.caje.org/learn/a_kaufman.htm
http://www.caje.org/learn/a_sarna.htm
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?
id=xpjywqwy1l9zmje1ke5nswxrq2qonjk
Author |
Title |
| Anderson,
Mark K., ed. |
Hitler’s
Exiles: Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany
to America |
| Berrol,
Selma Cantor |
The
Empire City: New York and Its People, 1624-1996 |
| Butwin,
Francis |
The
Jews of America: History and Sources |
| Carnes,
Jim |
Us
and Them: History of Intolerance in America |
| Coan,
Peter M. |
Ellis
Island Interview: In Their Own Words |
| Conde,
Yvonne M. |
Operation
Pedro Pan: The Untold Story of 14,048 Cuban Children |
| Davis,
Moshe & Isidore S. Meyer |
The
Writing of American Jewish History |
| Fiedman-Kasaba,
Kathie, |
Memories
of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives
of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870-1924 |
| Grossman,
Sari & Joan Brodsky Schur |
In
A New Land: An Anthology of Immigrant Literature |
| Grumet,
Michelle, |
Images
of Liberty |
| Giuliani,
Rudolph W., Fran Reiter, & Joseph B. Rose |
The
Newest New Yorkers, 1990-1994 |
| Hartstein,
Jacob I., Benjamin Miller, |
Jews
in America: Heritage and History A Resource Book |
| Hoobler,
Dorothy and Thomas, |
The
Jewish American Family Album |
| Hopson,
Darlene Powell, Ph.D. and S. Derek, Ph.D., |
Raising
the Rainbow Generation: Teaching Your Children to be Successful
in A Multicultural Society |
| Howe,
Irving |
World
of Our Fathers |
| Institute
of Human Relations Press of the American Jewish Committee,
edited by Gladys Rosenz |
Jewish
Life in America. Historical Perspectives |
| Isbister,
John |
The
Immigration Debate: Remaking America |
| Kenvin,
Helene Schwartz |
A History
of America’s Jews: This Land of Liberty |
| Kraut,
Alan, ed. |
Records
of the Immigration and Naturalization Service |
| Lamphere,
Louis, Alex Stepick, and Guillermo Grenier |
Newcomers
to the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of
the U.S. Economy |
| Levitan,
Tina |
Jews
in America: Life from 1492 to the Space Age |
| Lewis,
Barbara A. |
Kids
with Courage: True Stories About Young People Making
a Difference |
| Lipset,
Seymour Martin and Earl Raab |
Jews
and the New American Scene |
| Loveless,
Stephen, et al. |
Immigration
and Its Impact on American Cities |
| Magocsi,
Paul |
The
Russian Americans |
| Marcus,
Jacob Rader, |
Early
American Jewry: The Jews of Pennsylvania and the South
|
| Metzker,
Isaac, ed. |
A Bintel
Brief |
| Morrison,
Joan and Charlotte Fox Zabusky |
American
Mosaic: The Immigrant Experience in the Words of Those
Who Lived it |
| Olsen,
Laurie |
Made
in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools |
| Patterson,
Wayne and Hyung-Chan Kim |
The
Koreans in America |
| Pedraza,
Silvia and Ruben G. Rumbaut |
Origins
and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America |
| Pessin,
Deborah |
History
of the Jews in America |
| Perry,
Michael S. |
Labor
Rights in the Jewish Tradition |
| Polner,
Murray, President |
American
Jewish Biographies |
| Postal,
Bernard and Lionel Koppman |
Jewish
Landmarks of New York: A Travel Guide and History, vols.
1-3 |
| Portes,
Alejandro and Ruben G. Rumbaut |
Immigrant
America: A Portrait |
| Reimers,
David M. |
Still
the Golden Door |
| Rico,
Barbara Roche |
American
Mosaic: Multicultural Readings in Context |
| Roberts,
Sarah, ed. |
A Guide
to Videos on Prejudice and Stereotyping |
| Schappes,
Morris U. |
History
of the Jews in the United States |
| Schuman,
Jo Miles |
Art
from My Hands: Multicultural Art Projects |
| Simon,
Rita James |
In
the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish
Immigrants in America |
| Sklare,
Marshall |
America’s
Jews |
| Spewack,
Bella Cohen |
Streets:
A Memoir of the Lower East Side, N.Y |
| Stein,
Leon |
The
Triangle Fire |
| Ungar,
Sanford J. |
Fresh
Blood: The New American Immigrants |
| Wertheimer,
Barbara Meyer |
We
Were There: The Story of Working Women in America |
| Wigoder,
Geoffrey, ed. |
The
Holocaust, vols. 1-4. Danbury, Conn |
| Yezierska,
Anzia |
Bread-givers |
| Zamenova,
Tatyana, ed. |
Teenage
Refugees from Russia Speak Out |
| Zucker,
Norman L. |
Desperate
Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America |
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