Selected Bibliography

This bibliography consists of selected scholarly works about early (pre–mass migration) Atlantic and American Jewish history. It is meant to provide an entrée for those seeking to read more broadly about the various periods, areas, and subjects covered by the Kaplan Collection.

Armitage, David and Michael J. Raddick, eds., The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Ashkenazi, Elliott, The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840–1875. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988.

Ashton, Dianne. Hanukkah in America: A History. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

———. Rebecca Gratz: Women and Judaism in Antebellum America. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1997.

Baader, Benjamin Maria. Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800–1870. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concepts and Contours. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Bailyn, Bernard and Patricia L. Denault, eds. Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500–1830. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Barkai, Avraham. Branching Out: German-Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1820–1914. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1994.

Baron, Salo W. Steeled by Adversity: Essays and Addresses on American Jewish Life. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1971.

Baron, Salo W. and Joseph L. Blau, eds. The Jews of the United States, 1790–1840: A Documentary History. 3 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

ben Israel, Menasseh. The Hope of Israel, ed. Henry Méchoulan and Gérard Nahon. Oxford: Littman Library, 1987.

Ben-Ur, Aviva. Jewish Identity in a Slave Society: Suriname, 1651–1863 (forthcoming).

Ben-Ur, Aviva and Rachel Frankel. Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname: Epitaphs. Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, 2009.

Berger, David, ed. History and Hate: The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism in America. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1986.

Berlin, George L. Defending the Faith: Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Writings on Christianity and Jesus. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.

Bernardini, Paolo and Norman Fiering, eds. Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001.

Brenner, Frédéric. Marranes. Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1992.

Brinkmann, Tobias. Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Carlebach, Elisheva. Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, MA:  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

Cesarani, David, ed. Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550–1950. London: Frank Cass, 2002.

Cesarani, David and Gemma Romain, eds. Jews and Port Cities 1590–1990: Commerce, Community and Cosmopolitanism. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006.

Cherry, Shai. “The Hebrew Slave.” In Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2007.

Chomsky, William. Hebrew: The Eternal Language. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1957.

Chuchiak, John F., IV, ed. and trans. The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820: A Documentary History. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Chyet, Stanley F. Lopez of Newport; Colonial American Merchant Prince. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1970.

Cohen, Judah M. Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University, 2004.

Cohen, Martin A., comp. The Jewish Experience in Latin America. 2 vols. Waltham, MA: American Jewish Historical Society, 1972.

Cohen, Martin A. The Martyr Luis de Carvajal: A Secret Jew in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Cohen, Martin A. and James A. Peck, eds. Sephardim in the Americas: Studies in Culture and History. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993.

Cohen, Naomi W. Encounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States 1830–1914. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1984.

———, ed. Essential Papers on Jewish-Christian Relations in America. New York: New York University Press, 1990.

———. What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of Nineteenth-Century American Rabbis. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

Cohen, Robert. “Jewish Demography in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of London, the West Indies, and Early America.” PhD diss., Brandeis University, 1976.

———. Jews in Another Environment: Surinam in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991.

Davis, Marni. Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Davis, Moshe.  The Emergence of Conservative Judaism. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1963.

———. Yahadut Amerikah be-hitpathutah [The Shaping of American Judaism]. New York: Bet ha-Midrash le-Rabanim be-Amerikah [Jewish Theological Seminary of America], 1951.

Davis, Natalie Zemon. “David Nassy’s ‘Furlough’ and the Slave Mattheus.” In Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna, and Lance J. Sussman, eds., New Essays in American Jewish History: To Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the American Jewish Archives Journal and the 10th Anniversary of the American Jewish Archives under the Direction of Dr. Gary P. Zola. Cincinnati, OH: American Jewish Archives of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, 2010.

Davis, Robert C. “Counting European Slaves on the Barbary Coast.” Past and Present 172 (August 2001), 87–124.

Dawidowicz, Lucy S. What Is the Use of Jewish History? New York: Schocken Books, 1992.

Decker, Peter. Fortunes and Failures: White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Del Hoyo, Eugenio. Historia del Nuevo Reino de León, 1577–1723. 2 vols. Monterrey, Mexico: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 1972.

De Sola Pool, David. An Old Faith in the New World: Portrait of Shearith Israel 1654–1954. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955.

Diner, Hasia R. “Entering the Mainstream of Modern Jewish History.” In Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark Greenberg, eds., Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2006.

———. A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820–1880. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Elliott, John Huxtable. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.

Emmanuel, Isaac S. and Suzanne A. Emmanuel. History of the Jews of the Netherlands Antilles. 2 vols. Cincinnati, OH: American Jewish Archives, 1970.

Faber, Eli. Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Faur, Jose. “David Nassy: On Prejudice and Related Matters.” Neveh Ya’akov, Jubilee Volume Presented to Dr. Jaap Meijer. The Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1982, 87–116.

Finley, Moses I. Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology. Middlesex: Penguin Books [lectures presented in 1978], 1986.

Fishbane, Eitan P. and Jonathan D. Sarna, eds. Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2011.

Friedman, Lee M. “The Problems of Nineteenth Century American Jewish Peddlers.” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 44 (September 1954), 1–7.

Friedman, Murray, ed. Jewish Life in Philadelphia, 1830–1940. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.

———, ed. When Philadelphia Was the Capital of Jewish America. Philadelphia: Balch Institute Press 1993.

Gampel, Benjamin R. The Last Jews on Iberian Soil: Navarrese Jewry, 1479–1498. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Gartner, Lloyd P., ed. Jewish Education in the United States: A Documentary History. New York: Teachers College Press, 1969.

Garvey, Ellen Gruber. The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Gershwind-Bennett Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. A Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah Project. http://ubuwebser.cajs.upenn.edu/

Gitlitz, David M. Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1996.

Glanz, Rudolf. Studies in Judaica Americana. New York: Ktav, 1970.

Goldenberg, David M., ed. To Bigotry No Sanction: Documents in American Jewish History. Philadelphia: Annenberg Research Institute, 1988.

Goldenberg, David M. The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Goldman, Shalom, ed. Hebrew and the Bible in America. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press and Dartmouth College, 1993.

Goldman, Yosef, with research and editing by Ari Kinsberg. Hebrew Printing in America, 1735–1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography. Brooklyn, NY: YG Books, 2006.

Goodman, Abram Vossen. American Overture: Jewish Rights in Colonial Times. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1947.

Goren, Arthur A. The Politics and Public Culture of American Jews. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Graizbord, David L. Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580–1700. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Green, Tobias. “Equal Partners?: Proselytizing by Africans and Jews in the 17th Century Atlantic Diaspora.” Melilah 1 (2008), 1–12.

Greene, Jack P. and Philip D. Morgan, eds. Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Grinstein, Hyman Bogomolny. The Rise of the Jewish Community of New York. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1945.

Hall, David D., ed. Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Halttunen, Karen. Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830–1870. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982.

Heller, James G. Isaac Mayer Wise: His Life, Work, and Thought. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1965.

Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925. 2nd ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988.

Howe, Daniel Walker, ed., Victorian America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976.

Israel, Jonathan Irvine. Diasporas within a Diaspora: Jews, Crypto-Jews and the World Maritime Empires (1540–1740). Leiden: Brill, 2002.

———. European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism 1550–1750. 3rd ed. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1998.

Jay, Robert. The Trade Card in Nineteenth-Century America. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987.

Jick, Leon A. The Americanization of the Synagogue, 1820–1870. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 1992.

Kagan, Richard L. and Philip D. Morgan, eds. Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Kahn, Ava F., ed. Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History, 1849–1880. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2002.

Karp, Abraham J. Beginnings: Early American Judaica. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1975.

———. From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress. New York: Rizzoli, 1991.

———. Mordecai Manuel Noah: The First American Jew. New York: Yeshiva University Museum, 1987.

Katznelson, Ira. “Two Exceptionalisms: Points of Departure for Studies of Capitalism and Jews in the United States.” In Rebecca Kobrin, ed., Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012.

Kinsberg, Ari. People of Faith, Land of Promise: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America. New York: Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 2004.

Kinsey, John L. Thomas Moran’s West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Kiron, Arthur. “An Atlantic Jewish Republic of Letters?” Jewish History 20 (2006), 171–211.

———. “Mythologizing 1654.” The Jewish Quarterly Review 94:4 (Fall 2004), 583–594.

———, ed. Constellations of Atlantic Hewish History: the Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (Philadelphia: university of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2014).

—–—. “Varieties of Haskalah: Sabato Morais’ Program of Sephardi Rabbinic Humanism in Victorian America.” In Ross Brann and Adam Sutcliffe, eds., Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture: From al-Andalus to the Haskalah.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, 121–145.

Klapper, Melissa R. Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America 1860–1920. New York: New York University Press, 2005.

Klooster, Wim. “Caribbean/Atlantic World.” In Adam Sutcliffe and Jonathan Karp, eds., Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. 7: The Early Modern Period, c. 1500–c. 1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

———. “Communities of Port Jews and their Contacts in the Dutch Atlantic World.” Jewish History 20:2 (2006), 129–145.

——–. Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

Kobrin, Rebecca. “‘The Murdered Hebrew Maidservant of East New York’: Gender, Class, and the Jewish Household in Eastern Europe and Its Diaspora.” In Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore, eds., Gender and Jewish History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011, 72–87.

Korn, Bertram Wallace. American Jewry and the Civil War. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951.

———. The American Reaction to the Mortara Case. Cincinnati, OH: American Jewish Archives, 1957.

———, ed. A Bicentennial Festschrift for Jacob Rader Marcus. Waltham, MA: American Jewish Historical Society, 1976.

———. The Early Jews of New Orleans. Waltham, MA: American Jewish Historical Society, 1969.

———. Eventful Years and Experiences: Studies in Nineteenth Century American Jewish History. Cincinnati, OH: American Jewish Archives, 1954.

Laird, Pamela Walker. Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Larson, John Lauritz. The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Lears, T. Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Lederhendler, Eli. Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Leibman, Laura Arnold. Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2012.

Leibman, Seymour B. “The Great Conspiracy in New Spain.” The Americas 30:1 (July 1973), 18–31.

———. “The Jews of Colonial Mexico.” The Hispanic American Historical Review 43:1 (February 1963), 95–108.

———.  The Jews in New Spain: Faith, Flame, and the Inquisition. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1970.

Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F., Leigh E. Schmidt, and Mark Valeri, eds. Practicing Protestants: Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630–1965. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Magee, Gary B. and Andrew S. Thompson. Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, 1850–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Marcus, Jacob Rader. The Colonial American Jew, 1492–1776. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1970.

———. The Dynamics of American Jewish History: Jacob Rader Marcus’ Essays on American Jewry, ed. Gary Philip Zola. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 2004.

———. Memoirs of American Jews, 1775–1865. 3 vols. Philadelphia: Ktav, 1974.

———. “The Periodization of American Jewish History.” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 37:3 (March 1958), 125–133.

———. United States Jewry, 1776–1985. 4 vols. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1989–93.

Mark, Peter Allen. The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Mark, Peter Allen and José da Silva Horta. “Two Early Seventeenth-Century Sephardic Communities on Senegal’s Petite Côte.” History in Africa 31 (2004), 231–256.

Markens, Isaac. The Hebrews in America. New York: Published by the author, 1888.

Marks, Gil. Encyclopedia of Jewish Food. New York: Wiley, 2010.

Marzio, Peter C. The Democratic Art: Pictures for a 19th-century America: Chromolithography, 1840–1900. Boston: D. R. Godine, 1979.

Mayo, Louise A. The Ambivalent Image: Nineteenth-Century America’s Perception of the Early American Jew. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988.

Maziane, Leïla. Salé et ses corsaires (1666–1717): Un port de course marocain au XVIIe siècle. Mont-Saint-Aignan, France: Publications des Universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2007.

McGuire, Meredith B. Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Mesinger, Jonathan S. “Peddlers and Merchants: The Geography of Work in a Nineteenth Century Jewish Community.” Syracuse University Discussion Paper Series Number 38, 1977.

Moore, Kenneth. Those of the Street: The Catholic-Jews of Mallorca: A Study in Urban Cultural Change. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1976.

Morawska, Ewa. Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890–1940. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Mostov, Stephen G. “A ‘Jerusalem’ on the Ohio: The Social and Economic History of Cincinnati’s Jewish Community.” PhD diss., Brandeis University, 1981.

Muller, Jerry Z. Capitalism and the Jews. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.

National Museum of American Jewish History. The American Jewish Experience. Philadelphia: National Museum of American Jewish History, 1989.

National Museum of American Jewish History. To Bigotry No Sanction: George Washington and Religious Freedom. Philadelphia: National Museum of American Jewish History, 2012.

Pleck, Elizabeth. Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Raphael, Marc Lee, ed. The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

———, ed. Jews and Judaism in the United States: A Documentary History. New York: Behrman House, 1983.

———. The Synagogue in America: A Short History. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

Ray, Jonathan. After Expulsion: 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

Reuveni, Gideon. “Prolegomena to an ‘Economic Turn’ in Jewish History.” In Gideon Reuveni and Sarah Wobick-Segev, eds., The Economy in Jewish History. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011.

Reznikoff, Charles, with Uriah Z. Engelman. The Jews of Charleston. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1950.

Rochlin, Harriet. Pioneer Jews in the Far West. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Rose, Anne Carver. Victorian America and the Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Rosenbach, Abraham Simon Wolf. An American Jewish Bibliography being a list of books and pamphlets by Jews, or relating to them, printed in the United States from the establishment of the press in the colonies until 1850. Baltimore, MD: American Jewish Historical Society, 1926.

Rosenbloom, Joseph R. Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews, Colonial Times through 1800. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1960.

Ruben, Bruce. Max Lilienthal: The Making of the American Rabbinate. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2011.

Ruderman, David B. Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry’s Construction of Modern Jewish Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Sáenz-Badillos, Ángel. A History of the Hebrew Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Sarna, Jonathan D. American Judaism: A History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.

———. “An Eighteenth Century Hebrew Lu’ah from Pennsylvania.” American Jewish Archives Journal 57 (2005), 25–27.

———. “How Matzah Became Square: Manischewitz and the Development of Machine-Made Matzah in the United States.” In Rebecca Kobrin, ed., Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012, 272–288.

———. Jacksonian Jew: The Two Worlds of Mordecai Noah. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1981.

———. “Passover Raisin Wine, the American Temperance Movement, and Mordecai Noah:  The Origins, Meaning and Wider Significance of a Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Religious Practice.” Hebrew Union College Annual 59 (1988), 269–288.

———. When General Grant Expelled the Jews. New York: Schocken, 2012.

Sarna, Jonathan D. and Adam Mendelsohn, eds. Jews and the Civil War: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2010.

Satlow, Michael. “Two Copies of a Printed Early American Jewish Calendar in Providence.” Rhode Island Jewish Historical Society Notes 15 (November 2009), 416–427.

Schappes, Morris Urman, ed. A Documentary History of the Jews of the United States. 3rd ed. New York: Schocken Books, 1971.

———, with foreword by David de Sola Pool. A Pictorial History of the Jews in the United States.  Newly rev. ed. New York: Marzani and Munsell, 1958.

Schlereth, Thomas, J. Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life 1876–1915. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

Schmidt, Leigh Eric. “Practices of Exchange: From Market Culture to Gift Economy in the Interpretation of American Economy.” In David D. Hall, ed., Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Schoener, Allon. The American Jewish Album: 1654 to the Present. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983.

Schorsch, Ismar. “The Myth of Sephardi Supremacy.” Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 34 (1989), 47–66.

Schorsch, Jonathan. “American Jewish Historians, Colonial Jews and Blacks, and the Limits of Wissenschaft: A Critical Review.” Jewish Social Studies 6:2 (Winter 2000), 102–32.

———. Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

———. “Portmanteau Jews: Sephardim and Race in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” Jewish Culture and History 4:2 (2001), 59–74.

———. “Sephardic Business: Early Modern Atlantic Style.” Jewish Quarterly Review 100:3 (2010), 483–503.

Sharfman, I. Harold. The First Rabbi: Origins of Conflict between Orthodox and Reform: Jewish Polemic Warfare in pre-Civil War America: A Biographical history. Malibu, CA: J. Simon/Pangloss Press, 1988.

———. Jews on the Frontier: An Account of Jewish Pioneers and Settlers in Early America. Malibu, CA: J. Simon/Pangloss Press, 1990.

Singerman, Robert. Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900. 2 vols. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Sloane, David E. E. “Mortimer Thomson (Q.K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.).” In Stanley Trachtenberg, ed., American Humorists, 1800–1950, Part 2. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1982, 491–7.

Snyder, Holly. “Rules, Rights and Redemption: The Negotiation of Jewish Status in British Atlantic Port Towns, 1740–1831.” Jewish History 20:2 (2006), 147–170.

———. “A Tree with Two Different Fruits: The Jewish Encounter with German Pietists in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.” The William and Mary Quarterly 58:4 (2001), 855–882.

Sussman, Lance J. Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1995.

Vink, Wieke. Creole Jews: Negotiating Community in Colonial Suriname. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2010.

Weissbach, Lee Shai. Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.

Wenger, Beth S. History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.

———. The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America. New York: Doubleday, 2007.

Wertheimer, Jack, ed. The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Wolf, Edwin, and Maxwell Whiteman. The History of the Jews of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1957.

Woocher, Jonathan. Sacred Survival: The Civil Religion of American Jews. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.

Wright, Irene Aloha. “Rescates: With Special Reference to Cuba, 1599–1610.” Hispanic American Historical Review 3 (August 1920): 333–61.

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. “Between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam: The Place of Curaçao in Early Modern Jewish History.” American Jewish History 2 (1982), 172–93.

———. From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto: Isaac Cardoso: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Marranism and Jewish Apologetics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1971.

Zacek, Natalie. “‘A People So Subtle’: Sephardic Jewish Pioneers of the English West Indies.” In Caroline A. Williams, ed., Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World: People, Products, and Practices on the Move. Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2009, 97–112.

Zola, Gary Philip, with foreword by Jacob Rader Marcus. Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788–1828: Jewish Reformer and Intellectual. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994.