Jewish American Heritage Month
May is Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM), which recognizes more than 350-year history of Jewish contributions to American history and culture. It was officially established by President George W. Bush in 2006.
This guide will provide you with a variety of resources that will allow you to learn more about the different aspects of the lives of Jewish Americans over the centuries.
Streaming Films
Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems by Call Number: PS2233.A4 H65 2005ISBN: 1931082774Publication Date: 2005-04-07
Jewish American Poetry by Call Number: PS591 .J4 J42 2000ISBN: 1584650427Publication Date: 2000-07-01
Color Me In by
Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble.
Call Number: Curriculum Collection PZ7.1.D499 Col 2019ISBN: 9780525578239Publication Date: 2019-08-20
Extraordinary Jewish Americans by
Presents short biographies of more than sixty Jewish Americans who have flourished in careers including law, finance, entertainment, writing, politics, and science.
Call Number: Curriculum Collection E184.J5 B7429 1998ISBN: 0516206095Publication Date: 1998-03-01
Gittel's Journey by
"Brings to life a not too distant history of immigration to Ellis Island. When it's time for nine-year-old Gittel and her mother to leave their homeland behind and go to America for the promise of a new life, a health inspection stops any chance of Gittel's mother joining her daughter on the voyage. Knowing she may never see her mother again, Gittel must find the courage within herself to leave her family behind"
Call Number: Curriculum Collection PZ7.N47988 Gi 2019ISBN: 9781419727474Publication Date: 2019-02-05
Is It Night or Day? by
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In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.
Call Number: Curriculum Collection PZ7.C3667 Is 2010ISBN: 9780374177447Publication Date: 2010-03-16
The Jews by Call Number: Curriculum Collection E184.35 .H67 2000ISBN: 0778702014Publication Date: 2000-03-15
Jews in America by
Examines the migration and background of those Jews who came to America, their adaptations to their new life, the rituals, traditions, and organizations of Jewish Americans, and their contemporary situation.
Call Number: Curriculum Collection E184.J5 D4929 1999ISBN: 0195106784Publication Date: 1999-01-07
Lily Renée, Escape Artist by Call Number: Curriculum Collection DS134.42.R46 R63 2011ISBN: 9780761360100Publication Date: 2011-01-11
Three Stars in the Night Sky by
At the age of 12, Gerda Katz fled Nazi Germany and came to America all by herself. Decades before the label gained recognition, she become whats now know as an "unaccompanied minor." Gerda's story of family separation reflects the dislocating trauma, culture shock, and excruciating loneliness many unaccompanied minor immigrants experience. As Gerda becomes an American, she never stops longing to be reunited with her family. Three Stars in the Night Sky illuminates the personal damage of racism in three countries--Nazi Germany, the Dominican Republic, and the United States during the 1930s and 40s--and the emotional devastation of a child coming to a new country alone.
Call Number: Curriculum Collection PZ7.C3667 Thr 2018ISBN: 9780996472548Publication Date: 2018-06-20
- American Jewish ArchivesEstablished in 1947, the American Jewish Archives collects, preserves, and makes available for research, materials on the history of Jews and Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere, including data of a political, economic, social, cultural, and religious nature.
- American Jewish Historical SocietyEstablished in 1892, the mission of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) is to foster awareness and appreciation of American Jewish heritage and to serve as a national scholarly resource for research through the collection, preservation and dissemination of materials relating to American Jewish history. The AJHS illuminates American Jewish history through its many archival treasures, scholarship, exhibitions, and public programs. Among the treasures of this heritage are the handwritten original of Emma Lazarus’ The New Colossus, which graces the Statue of Liberty; records of the nation’s leading Jewish communal organizations, and important collections in the fields of education, philanthropy, science, sports, business, and the arts.
- Center for Jewish HistoryA collaboration of five institutions: The American Jewish Historical Society, The American Sephardi Federation, The Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
- Jewish Women's ArchiveThe Jewish Women's Archive is devoted to making known the stories, struggles, and achievements of Jewish women in North America in order to enrich the way we understand the past and to ensure a more inclusive future.
- Museum of Jewish HeritageThe mission of this museum is to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life in the 20th and 21st centuries—before, during, and after the Holocaust.