For a bibliography on southern Jewish history, click here.

Other resources for studying American Jewish history:

Mapping Projects

Mapping Jewish Charleston

Mapping Jewish Los Angeles

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:

•Modern Jewish History

•American Religious History to 1865

•American Religious History from 1865

•Religion, Media, and Culture