Pathfinder: Jewish Americans

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Biography |Circulating Books|Literature|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites

SCOPE: The first Jewish Americans arrived in New York in 1654. By 1860 there were over 150,000 immigrants in the United States; the largest population from Eastern European descent. ( Dassanowsky, Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America)The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available in the library. 

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with Jewish Americans are listed in the Baddour Librarys online catalog under the following subject headings:

Jews History 1945-

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF PS21.D5V28 Twentieth Century American-Jewish Fiction Writers
REF D 804.25.F57 1999 Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust 

BIOGRAPHY

Holliday, Laurel. Why Do They Hate Me: Young Lives Caught in War and Conflict. New York: Pocket Books, 1999.

Howe, Irving. World of our Fathers. New York: Galahad Books, 1994.

Kranzler, David. The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerlands Finest Hour. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000.

Rothchild, Sylvia. Voices from the Holocaust. New York: New American Library, 1981.

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library:

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Bhavnai, Kum-Kum. Feminism and Race. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Gartner, Lloyd p. History of the Jews in Modern Times. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Hertzberg, Arthur. The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter: A History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Krause, Corinne Azen. Grandmothers, Mothers, and Daughters: Oral Histories of Three Generations of Ethnic American Women. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.

Levine, Hillel. The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions. New York: Free Press, 1992.

LITERATURE 

Saul Bellow

The Adventures of Augie March. New York: Viking Press, 1953.

Dangling Man. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944.

The Dean's December: A Novel. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

Henderson, the Rain King; A Novel. New York: Viking Press, 1959.

Herzog. New York: Viking Press, 1964.

Humboldt's Gift. New York: Avon, 1973.

More Die of Heartbreak. New York: Viking Press, 1970.

Mr. Sammler's Planet. NewYork: Viking Press, 1970.

Seize the Day, With Three Short Stories and a One-Act Play. New York: Viking Press, 1956.

E.L. Doctorow

Billy Bathgate: A Novel. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.

The Book of Daniel. New York: Modern Library, 1983.

Loon Lake. New York: Random House, 1980.

Ragtime. New York: Random House, 1975.

Edna Ferber

Giant. New York: Perennial Classics, 2000.

Bruce J. Friedman

The Lonely Guys Book of Life. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2978.

Joseph Heller

Catch-22. New York: Dell Publishing, 1990.

Something Happened. New York: Knopf, 1974.

Norman Mailer

An American Dream. New York: Dial Press, 1965. 

Ancient Evenings. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History. New York: New American Library, 1968.

The Deer Park. New York: Berkley Pub; 1967.

The Executioner's Song. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.

The Naked and the Dead. New York: Rinehart, 1948.

Bernard Malamud

Dubin's Lives. New York: Avon, 1980.

The Fixer. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

Idiots First. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1963.

The Magic Barrel. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1958.

The Natural. New York: Avon, 1982.

Pictures of Fidelman; An Exhibition. New York: Farrar,Straus, Giroux, 1969.

Chaim Potok

The Chosen. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1967.

Wanderings: Chaim Potoks History of the Jews. New York: Ballantine, 1983.

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

Mainland. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.

Isaac Bashevis Singer 

The Seance. New York: Aron, 1969.

Shosha. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978.

Nathanael West

Complete Work. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.

Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust. New York: New Directions, 1969.

Novels and Other Writings. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the link for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

• Ethnic & Race Studies

Open Access Journals in Ethnology

WEB SITES

From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/
This site features a special online exhibit from the Library of Congress. Especially noteworthy is the section entitled “ A Century of Immigration, 1820-1924.”

Judaism and Jewish Resources
http://www.shamash.org/trb/judaism.html