Truxal Library Exhibit: Jewish American Heritage Month, May 2025
Special Topic Library Guide
Welcome to Truxal Library's guide in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month in May 2025! This guide spotlights recently published ebooks, books, and streaming videos in the library's collection that can be checked out or accessed online. This online guide is a counterpart to a physical exhibit that is on view on the first floor of the library all May. If you are on campus, please visit the library to see the accompanying exhibit!
Books
(((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump. –by Call Number: DS146 .U6 W45 2018ISBN: 9781250169938Publication Date: 2018-03-20
The 100 Most Jewish Foods: A Highly Debatable List –by Call Number: TX724 .A23 2019ISBN: 9781579659066Publication Date: 2019-03-19
America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today –by Call Number: HQ1172 .N33 2019ISBN: 9780393651232Publication Date: 2019-03-05
American Jewry: A New History –by Call Number: E184 .J5 L567 2017ISBN: 9781316632628Publication Date: 2016-11-14
At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York's Lower East Side 1880-1920 –by Call Number: F128.9 .J5 E67 2007ISBN: 9780787986223Publication Date: 2007-08-17
Beyond the Golden Door –by Call Number: PS173 .J4 N68 2008ISBN: 9781403970091Publication Date: 2008-07-02
Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s –by Call Number: E184.36 .A34 D65 2018ISBN: 9781512602579Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Child Survivors of the Holocaust: The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience –by Call Number: E184.355 .C64 2018ISBN: 9780813584973Publication Date: 2018-03-30
The Chosen WarsL How Judaism Became an American Religion –by ISBN: 9781416573265Publication Date: 2018-08-21
Coming of Age in Jewish America: Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted –by Call Number: BM707 .M86 2016ISBN: 9780813575933Publication Date: 2016-05-30
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance –by Call Number: F655 .C63 2023ISBN: 9780593655078Publication Date: 2023-10-03
The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Women Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust –by Call Number: DS134.72 .M44 W45 2024ISBN: 9781982189129Publication Date: 2024-01-23
Finding My Father: His Century0Long Journey from World War I Warsaw--and My Quest to Follow –by Call Number: E184.37 .T37 T36 2020ISBN: 9781101885833Publication Date: 2020-09-15
Fress: Bold Flavors from a Jewish Kitchen –by Call Number: TX724 .S66 2017ISBN: 9781784722982Publication Date: 2017-04-04
Global Jewish Foodways –by Call Number: TX724 .G635 2018ISBN: 9781496202284Publication Date: 2018-06-01
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish –by Call Number: PJ5113 .H69 2020ISBN: 9781632062628Publication Date: 2020-01-21
Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness –by Call Number: PS153 .J4 M48 2011ISBN: 9781438439235Publication Date: 2011-12-01
The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History –by Call Number: PS153 .J4 S37 2015ISBN: 9781479868681Publication Date: 2015-06-12
The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World –by Call Number: E184.35 .M56 2018ISBN: 9781610397513Publication Date: 2018-11-27
A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America –by Call Number: HQ1172 .J49 2010ISBN: 9780813547916Publication Date: 2010-09-10
Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories –by Call Number: HV6275 .R6737 2023ISBN: 9781685890643Publication Date: 2023-09-19
Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew –by Call Number: TX724 .T85 2022ISBN: 9780062891754Publication Date: 2022-08-09
Let's Eat: Jewish Food and Faith –by Call Number: TX724 .S733 2018ISBN: 9781442271036Publication Date: 2017-11-17
Modern Jewish Women Writers in America –by Call Number: PS153 .J4 M63 2007ISBN: 1403978042Publication Date: 2007-05-15
The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice their Religion Today –by Call Number: BM205 .W457 2018ISBN: 9780691181295Publication Date: 2018-08-28
The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction –by Call Number: PS153 .J4 N49 2015ISBN: 9780814340554Publication Date: 2014-12-30
On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore –by Call Number: F189 .B19 J53 2018ISBN: 9781421424521Publication Date: 2018-03-28
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler –by Call Number: D810 .J4 H4235 2017ISBN: 9780062419095Publication Date: 2017-07-25
Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood –by Call Number: HV6536.55 .P58 O67 2021ISBN: 9780525657194Publication Date: 2021-10-05
The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing –by Call Number: D804.195 .F73 2019ISBN: 9780062258588Publication Date: 2019-10-29
Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend –by ISBN: 9781647222154Publication Date: 2021-04-06
We Need to Talk about Antisemitism –by Call Number: DS146 .U6 F47 2023ISBN: 9781541601949Publication Date: 2023-08-29
eBooks
Ambivalent Embrace : Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781469635446Publication Date: 2017-09-19
The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780691209791Publication Date: 2020-10-13
The Book of Life: Selected Jewish poems , 1979-2011 –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780822978350Publication Date: 2012-01-29
Coming of Age in Jewish America –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780813575964Publication Date: 2016-05-01
Coming to Terms with America: Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780827618794Publication Date: 2021-09-01
Eating at God's Table: How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780814349564Publication Date: 2023-11-28
Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American writers and American literary culture –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780253000286Publication Date: 2008-07-02
From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780827610439Publication Date: 2010-01-01
From the Jewish Heartland: two centuries of Midwest foodways –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780252093159Publication Date: 2011-06-01
The Future of the Jews : How Global Forces Are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United StatesCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781442241763
Global Jewish Foodways: A History –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781496206114Publication Date: 2018-06-01
Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780253019165Publication Date: 2016-02-22
A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780813589732Publication Date: 2018-12-06
The Jewish Cultural Tapestry: International Jewish folk traditions –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780195134254Publication Date: 2001-05-17
Jewish Peoplehood: an American innovation –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780813563664Publication Date: 2015-07-13
Kugels and Collards: Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781643364223Publication Date: 2023-08-29
Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780253069450Publication Date: 2024-04-30
Saying No to Hate: Overcoming antisemitism in America –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780827619210Publication Date: 2024-05-01
South of My Dreams: Finding My American Home, A Memoir –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781643364964Publication Date: 2024-10-15
The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781400880607Publication Date: 2016-03-15
Suddenly Jewish: Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781611683028Publication Date: 2012-04-01
Today I Am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah around the World –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780253005175Publication Date: 2011-11-07
True to My God and Country: How Jewish Americans Fought in World War II –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780253068286Publication Date: 2024-02-06
Videos
- 50 Children (2013)Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus never intended to become heroes. But in early 1939, as conditions were worsening for Jews living inside Nazi Germany, the Philadelphia couple embarked on a risky and improbable mission – an effort to rescue 50 Jewish children and bring them to safety in the United States. 1 hour 4 minutes.
- Beyond the Pale (2020)In this episode of "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.", Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the Jewish heritages of actor Jeff Goldblum, radio host Terry Gross, and comedian Marc Maron, uncovering previously unknown stories that show each shares more with their ancestors than a religious tradition. 52 minutes.
- From Swastika to Jim Crow (2000)This documentary, directed by Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler, is about refugee German scholars who taught in the historically black colleges in the South after they immigrated. 56 minutes.
- A Jewish Journey (2001)This film focuses on a group from a Jewish congregation in New Jersey who journey to eastern Europe in search of their Jewish past. No one expected a light hearted vacation,but each felt it was important to make this connection to their Jewish heritage. 59 minutes.
- Land of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina (2003)Land of Promise is a fascinating, richly illustrated documentary that explores the Jewish experience in South Carolina from colonial days to modern times. It is a heartwarming story of religious tolerance, economic and political opportunity By 1800, Charleston was home to the largest and wealthiest Jewish community in North America. 58 minutes.
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