The Jewish Unions in America: Pages of History and Memories by Maurice Wolfthal (2019): Open Book Publishers.
The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement.
Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg by
Camilla Adang et al (2020): Open Book Publishers.
Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled unearths forgotten texts that once belonged to the library of the Karaite community in Cairo. Consigned to oblivion for centuries, many of these manuscripts were sold in the second half of the nineteenth century to the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, where they remained inaccessible to most scholars until the end of the Cold War.
Ambiguous Relations: The American Jewish Community and Germany Since 1945 by Shlomo Shafir (2018): Wayne
State University Press.
Ambiguous Relations addresses for the first time the complex relationships between American Jews and Germany over the fifty years following the end of World War II, and examines American Jewry's' ambiguous attitude toward Germany that continues despite sociological and generational changes within the community. Shlomo Shafir recounts attempts by American Jews to influence U.S. policy toward Germany after the ware and traces these efforts through President Reagan's infamous visit to Bitburg and beyond.
Studies In Rabbinic Hebrew by Shai Hiejmans (2020): Open Book Publishers.
Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew addresses this lacuna, with eight lucid but technically rigorous articles written in English by a range of experienced scholars, focusing on various aspects of Rabbinic Hebrew: its phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and lexicon. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Rabbinic studies alike, and constitutes the second in a new series, Studies in Semitic Languages and Cultures, in collaboration with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Witness Through The Imagination: Jewish American Holocaust Literature by S. Lillian Kremer (2018): Wayne State
University Press.
Witness Through the Imagination presents a critical reading of themes and stylistic strategies of major American Holocaust fiction to determine its capacity to render the prelude, progress, and aftermath of the Holocaust. The unifying critical approach is the textual explication of themes and literary method, occasional comparative references to international Holocaust literature, and a discussion of extra-literary Holocaust sources that have influenced the creative writers' treatment of the Holocaust universe.
From New Zion to Old Zion: American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917-1939 by Joseph B.
Glass (2018): Wayne State University Press.
From New Zion to Old Zion analyzes the migration of American Jews to Palestine between the two world wars and explores the contribution of these settlers to the building of Palestine. From New Zion to Old Zion draws upon international archival correspondence, newspapers, maps, photographs, interviews, and fieldwork to provide students and scholars of immigration and settlement processes, the Yishuv (Jewish community in Palestine), and America-Holy Land studies a well-researched portrait of Aliyah (immigration to Palestine).
19th Century Jewish American Experience (National Humanities Center)
20th Century Jewish American Experience (National Humanities Center)
A Life Apart: Hasidism In America (PBS)
A Living Library of Jewish Texts (sefaria)
Brown Judaic Studies Collection (JSTOR)
Center for Online Judaic Studies
In Geveb - Journal of Yiddish Studies
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 (Project MUSE)
Jewish Studies Book Collection (University of California Press)
MODIYA Project (NYU)
No Haven for the Oppressed: United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938-1945 (Project MUSE)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm.org)
Wayne Open Jewish Book Collection (Wayne State University Press)
