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Jewish American Literature - quick starts

Reference Shelf

Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature
ISBN: 9780816060856
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780203010006
Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780313294624
Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780313339899
Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions
ISBN: 9780765620255
Encyclopedia of Judaism
ISBN: 9780816085019

Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World This link opens in a new window
Contains information on Jewish history, religion and culture in Muslim lands, covering the seventh century to the present.

Newspapers & Periodicals

Jewish Exponent (1887 - 1990) This link opens in a new window
Contains digitized issues from 1887 to 1990 of the weekly community paper serving the Jewish interests of Philadelphia.

Manuscripts & Ephemera

Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954 This link opens in a new window
Contains full-text digitized primary source materials on the history of Jewish communities in America from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to today. Includes access to the collections of personal papers from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.
USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window
Search through information about more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. More than 3,000 of these testimony videos can be viewed on VHA Online.

Reading/Teaching the Literary Topic

Teaching Jewish American Literature
ISBN: 9781603294461
New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures: Reading and Teaching
ISBN: 9781438473192
The New Jewish American Literary Studies, Part 1
ISBN: 9781108426282

Very Short Introductions

Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780190076979

Intro Essays & Topic Overviews

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature
ISBN: 0521796997
The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction
ISBN: 9780748646159
Jewish American Literature Since 1945: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781853312267
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies
ISBN: 9780199280322

Histories

The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature
ISBN: 9781107048201

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