Religion and the Working Class--Jewish Labor Bibliography

Religion and the Working Class (x H-Labor)--Jewish Labor Bibliography

Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 14:34:19 EDT
From: "Seth Wigderson, Univ. of Maine-Augusta" <SETHW@MAINE.maine.edu> Subject: RELIGION AND THE WORKING CLASS

Thanx to Arieh Lebowitz for this offer. SW +++++ +++++ +++++ +++++ +++++ +++++ +++++ +++++

While the immigrant Jewish community played a prominent role in the development of trade unionism in the United States [and Canada], the relationship between the Jewish labor movement and Jewish religiuous belief and practice was, I would suspect, be very different than that of Polish, Italian and Irish immigrants. At any rate, if anyone would like a basic bibliography on the Jewish labor movement which I've prepared,and recently updated, just send a self-addressed envelope (two 32c stamps US please!) and mark Aprl 95 JLM Bibliopgraphy on YOUR envelope to me:

Arieh Lebowitz
arieh.lebowitz@REX.COM
69 Bennett Avenue #510
New York, NY 10033-3026

American Jewish History Texts (x H-Judaic)

[Thanks to H-Judaic, ably edited by Avi Hyman, for this informative posting on texts in American Jewish History. JB]

AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY TEXTS
-> Penny Schine Gold <pgold@knox.edu>

In an earlier posting, I asked for suggestions of a background textbook in American Jewish history, to replace Jonathan Sarna's collection of essays, AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE, which was unavailable this winter. Here are the initial replies I received.

First of all, the good news is that Sarna's collection is only out of stock, not out of print, and a new printing will be made this spring. Other books suggested:

Glazer, AMERICAN JUDAISM
Jick, THE AMERICANIZATION OF
THE SYNAGOGUE
Howe, THE WORLD OF OUR FATHERS
Karp, HAVEN AND HOME: A HISTORY OF THE
JEWS IN AMERICA (reported as back in print)
Feingold, ZION IN AMERICA (in print?)
AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY 81:1 (Autumn 1993), which has
an article by each of the authors of the AJHS five-volume history; each author sums up his or her argument for the period worked on; about 100 pages
Goren's essay on "Jews" in the HARVARD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
AMERICAN ETHNIC GROUPS (later reprinted as a little book by Harvard)

Thanks to those who offered suggestions:

Morton Merowitz, Jonathan Sarna, Daniel Soyer. And of course, I welcome any other suggestions. An updated bibliography will be posted as warranted.

Penny S. Gold, Knox College, pgold@knox.edu

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