Guides @ UF: Jewish Studies: American Jewish History

Resources in the Libraries

America's Jewish Women by Pamela Nadell
ISBN: 9780393651232
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
American Judaism by Jonathan D. Sarna
ISBN: 9780300190397
Publication Date: 2019-06-25
Antisemitism in North America: New World, Old Hate by Steven K. Baum
ISBN: 9004307141
Publication Date: Brill, 2016
Doing Business in America by Hasia Diner (Editor)
ISBN: 9781612495590
Publication Date: 2018-12-14
The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism by Kenneth D. Wald
ISBN: 9781108497893
Publication Date: 2019-01-17
The Jewish Americans by Beth S. Wenger; Beth Wenger
ISBN: 9780385521390
Publication Date: 2007-10-23
The Jewish Unions in America by Bernard Weinstein; Maurice Wolfthal (Translator)
ISBN: 9781783743544
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Jews and American Public Life by David G. Dalin
ISBN: 9781644698839
Publication Date: Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022
New Perspectives in American Jewish History by Mark A. Raider (Editor); Gary Phillip Zola (Editor)
ISBN: 9781684580521
Publication Date: 2021-12-22
Poor Jews by Naomi Levine (Editor)
ISBN: 1351319426
Publication Date: 2017-09-08

Postwar Stories by UF Professor Rachel Gordan Rachel Gordan’s new book "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" is about the transformation of Jews and Judaism in the US from “the least understood of all major religions” to a part of the American landscape. Gordan discusses two strands of midcentury middlebrow literature. One is the anti-antisemitism novels of the 1940s. The other is the literature of the 1940s and 1950s that introduced Judaism to the broader American public.

See photographs of Southern Jewish Life in Bill Aron's Shalom Y'all held in the Price Library of Judaica

Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL) is dedicated to providing educational and rabbinic services to Southern Jewish communities, documenting and preserving the rich history of the Southern Jewish experience, and promoting a Jewish cultural presence throughout a thirteen state region.
A Portion of the People - Exhibit A major museum exhibition, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life spearheaded by the Jewish Heritage Project, College of Charleston. The exhibit opened at McKissick in January 2002, beginning a two-year national tour.