For a bibliography on southern Jewish history, click here.
Other resources for studying American Jewish history:
Mapping Projects
Digital Archives
Correspondence of Isaac Leeser
Isaac Mayer Wise Digital Archive
Malcolm H. Stern, First American Jewish Families: 600 Genealogies, 1654-1988
Jews in America: Portal to American Jewish History
Jewish Atlantic World Database
Newspapers
The Occident and American Jewish Advocate (Philadelphia, 1843-1869)
The Weekly Gleaner (San Francisco, 1857)
Proquest Historical Newspapers:
- The American Israelite (Cincinnati, 1854-present)
- Jewish Messenger (NYC, 1857-1922)
- American Hebrew (NY, 1879-1902, 1922)
- Biznes Rekord = The Jewish Business Record (NY, 1916-1918)
- Yidisher Rekord = The Jewish Record (Chicago, 1917-1922)
- Jewish Advocate (Boston, 1909-1990)
- Jewish Exponent (Philadelphia, 1887-1990)
Archives I have used
- American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OH
- American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY
- Magnes Collection of Jewish Art And Life, Western Jewish Americana Collection, Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA
- New Haven (CT) Colony Historical Society
- Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
- Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Ida Pearle & Joseph Cuba Archives and Genealogy Center, Bremen Museum, Atlanta, GA
- Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives, Richmond, VA
- Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA
My graduate school oral examination lists:
•American Religious History to 1865