AUTHOR

TITLE

AUDIENCE

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Bial, Raymond

Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side

Elementary, Middle School

The physical features and social organizations of immigrant life

Bierman, Carol

Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America

Elementary

Real story of health examination at Ellis Island

Blanc, Esther Silverstein

Berchick

ages 4 to 7

Jewish homesteading in Wyoming

Blos, Joan W.

Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme

grades 3 to 7

A 6th grader records the events of her life in Brooklyn in the early 1900s

Cohen, Barbara

Make a Wish, Molly

ages 4 to 7

A birthday party invitation for a Russia immigrant girl

Cohen, Barbara

Molly's Pilgrim

ages 6 to 9

A Russian immigrant is a Pilgrim, too

Diner, Hasia

Jews in America

ages 12 to 17

Waves of Jewish migration to America beginning in 1654

Finkelstein, Norman H.

Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish-American Experience

Middle School, High School

From adaptation to integration

Fisher, Leonard Everett

To Bigotry No Sanction: The Story of the Oldest Synagogue

Young Adult

The Touro Synagogue, Newport, RI

Gantz, David

Jews in America: A Cartoon History

Young Adult

A graphic history that uses the style of a comic book to depict five centuries of Jewish life in The United States

Granfield, Linda

97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant Life

Elementary, Middle School

Photo-essay

Haberle, Susan E.

Jewish Immigrants, 1880-1924

Grade 4

Why Jewish people left their homelands to come to America

Hesse, Karen

Letters from Rifka

ages 9 to 12

The tribulations from the Ukraine to Ellis Island

Pushker, Gloria Teles

Toby Belfer: Growing Up Jewish in Rural Louisiana

ages 4 to 7

Being the only Jewish family in town

Hest, Amy

When Jessie Came Across the Sea

ages 7 to 11

Resettling in America to earn a living and bring her Grandmother

Hoobler, Dorothy

The Jewish American Family Album

ages 9 to 12

Personal stories of Jewish immigrants to The United States

Hurwitz, Johanna

Dear Emma

ages 5 to 8

Letters to a friend in Vermont, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Hurwitz, Hilda A.

Dear Hope…Love, Grandma

ages 8 to 11

Childhood in St. Louis at the turn of the 20th century

Hurwitz, Johanna

Faraway Summer

Elementary

Sequel to Dear Emma, orphaned immigrant girl on a visit to a farm

Johnson, Sheila G.

After I Said No

Middle School

Historical novel dealing with sweatshop labor and unions

Kale, Shelly

Suitcase of Dreams: Immigration Stories

Elementary, Middle School

Stories from the Skirball Cultural Center

Kroll, Steven

Ellis Island - Doorway to Freedom

ages 8 to 11

History of the island from Colonial times to the present

Lasky, Kathryn

Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Friedman

Elementary, Middle School

From Russia to the US in the early 1900's

Levinson, Riki

Watch the Stars Come Out

ages 4 to 7

A grandmother's story told to her granddaughter

Levitin, Sonia

Journey to America

ages 9 to 12

The Platt family escapes from Berlin in 1938 to Switzerland

Levitin, Sonia

Silver Days

ages 9 to 12

A prosperous Jewish family flees Nazi Germany

Levitin, Sonia

Annie's Promise

ages 9 to 12

Sequel to "Journey to America" & "Silver Days"

Lingen, Marissa

The Jewish Americans (Welcome to America)

ages 9 to 12

Biographical sketches include Albert Einstein, Isaac Stern, and others

Littlefield, Holly

Fire at the Triangle Factory

ages 6 to 8

Two teenage girls, sewing machine operators, at the Triangle Factory

Machlin, Mikki

My Name is Not Gussie

grades 5 to 10

A family's experience from Russia to NYC in the early 20th century

Milgrim, Shirley Gorson

Haym Solomon: Liberty's Son

Young Adult

Biography of the Polish-born Jew in the American Revolution

Moreno, Barry

Jewish Americans

grades 4-7

Patterns of immigration

Morris, Ann

Grandma Esther Remembers: A Jewish-American Family Story

grades 1 to 3

Two Jewish girls learn about their heritage

Moss, Marissa

Hannah's Journal: The Story of an immigrant girl

ages 9 to 12

In 1901 Lithuania, Hannah's family sends her to America

Oberman, Sheldon

The Always Prayer Shawl

ages 6 to 9

A grandfather's prayer shawl comes from Russia to America

Rael, Elsa Okon

What Zeesie Saw on Delancey Street

ages 4 to 8

A Package Party on the Lower East Side in the 1930's

Rael, Elsa Okon

Rivka's First Thanksgiving

Primary

Life on the Lower East Side

Rocklin, Joanne

Strudel Stories

Elementary, Middle School

Linked stories of an immigrant family from Russia to America

Roseman, Kenneth

The Other Side of the Hudson: A Jewish Immigrant Adventure

ages 9 to 12

A Do-It-Yourself Jewish Adventure - part of a series

Sachs, Marilyn

Call Me Ruth

ages 8 to 11

Mama works long hours and speaks only Yiddish

Schanzer, Rosalind

Escaping to America: A True Story

Elementary

Escaping the Old Country, Poland, in the early 20th century

Schleifer, Jay

A Student's Guide to American Jewish Genealogy

Grades 7+

In-depth survey of Jewish history in addition to genealogy

Schuman, Burt

Chanukah on the Prairie

Primary, Elementary

From Galicia to Grand Forks, North Dakota

Sherman, Eileen Bluestone

Independence Avenue

Grades 5 to 8

From Russia to Galveston in 1907

Siegel, Bruce M.

Champion & Jewboy

ages 12 to 15

Two novellas dealing with antisemitism

Sonder, Ben

The Tenement Writer: An Immigrant's Story

ages 12+

From Poland to America

Spewack, Bella

Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side

Young Adult

From Transylvania to the Lower East Side in 1903

Stanley, Jerry

Frontier Merchants: Lionel & Barron Jacobs and the Jewish Pioneers

ages 9 to 12

Scenes of the American West; combining Jewish history

Suberman, Stella

The Jew Store: A Family Memoir

Young Adult

A Jew, born in pre-revolutionary Russia, finds his way to America

Tarbescu, Edith

Annushka's Voyage

Primary

Two sisters join their father in America

Weissenberg, Fran

The Streets Are Paved With Gold

ages 9 to 12

1920's Brooklyn and an immigrant girl who wants to be like her class

Weitzman, Elizabeth

I Am Jewish American

ages 5 to 8

A family's Jewish American immigrant history in one-page chapters

Wells, Rosemary

Streets of Gold

Elementary

Vignettes based on Mary Antin's "The Promised Land"

Woodruff, Elvira

The Memory Coat

Primary, Elementary

Rachel saves her cousin from being turned back at Ellis Island