Books for Jewish American Heritage Month

jewish american heritage month logoMay is Jewish American Heritage Month. In recognition, the DC Public Library compiled this select bibliography related to the 2012 lectures, exhibits and poetry readings at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. 

This year, programs highlight the history of Jewish Americans in Washington, D.C. and the United States and their contribution to literature.

For more information on Jewish American History at the DC Public Library, please search the library catalog at
 
Jewish American Culture and History

Apelbaum, Laura Cohen, and Wendy Turman. Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community. Washington, DC: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington: Lillian and Albert Small, 2007.
Call number: 975.3004 J596

The Jewish Community of Washington, D.C.Garfinkle, Martin. The Jewish Community of Washington, D.C. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005. 
Call number: 975.3004 G2315

Leibovitz, Liel. Aliya: Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel. New York:  St. Martin’s Press, 2006. 
Call number: 929.2095 L525

Rosenberg, Roy A. Everything You Need to Know about America’s Jews and their History. New York: Plume, 1997. 
Call number: 973.0492 R813

Sarna, Jonathan D. When General Grant Expelled the Jews. Jewish Encounters.  New York: Nextbook:, 2012. 
Call number: 973.7089 S246

Schultz, Debra L. Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001. 
Call number: 323.1196 S387

Wenger, Beth S. The Jewish American: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
Call number: 305.8924 W474

Jewish American Literature

Abramson, Seth. Northerners. New York: New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2011.
Call number: 811 A161

Antler, Joyce. The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century.  New York: Free Press, 1997.
Call number: 920.7209 A633

Avery, Evelyn Gross. Modern Jewish Women Writers in America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Call number: 810.9 M6896

All the Whiskey in HeavenBernstein, Charles. All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010.
Call number: 811 B531AL

Brodsky, Joseph.  Less Than One: Selected Essays. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.
Call number: 809.104 B864

Ginsberg, Allen. Collected Poems, 1947-1997. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.
Call number: 811 G493

Kumin, Maxine. Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 2000.
Call number: 811 K95C

Rubin, Steven J. Telling and Remembering: A Century of American Jewish Poetry. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997.
Call number: 811.08 T276

Rukeyser, Muriel. A Muriel Rukeyser Reader. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.
Call number: 810.81 R934A

Shapiro, Ann R. Jewish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Call number: 016.8109 J59

Stein, Gertrude. Really Reading Gertrude Stein: A Selected Anthology with Essays by Judy Grahn. Freedom, Calif.: Crossing Press, 1989.
Call number: 810.81 S819ZG