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American Immigrant Tales Nonfiction A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious Roya Hakakian Nonfiction Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America Rachel Kranson Nonfiction American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York Nomi M. Stolzenberg, David N. Myers Nonfiction City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York Tyler Anbinder Nonfiction Coming to Terms with America: Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture Jonathan D. Sarna Fiction How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish Ilan Stavans, Josh Lambert Nonfiction Jewish Comedy: A Serious History Jeremy Dauber Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award Nonfiction Journeys: An American Story Andrew Tisch & Mary Skafidas Nonfiction Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation Claudio Lomnitz Nonfiction Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family Laura Arnold Leibman Nonfiction People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Dara Horn Nonfiction Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950 Naomi Prawer Kadar Fiction The Boston Girl: A Novel Anita Diamant Nonfiction The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion Steven R. Weisman Nonfiction The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City Scott D. Seligman Nonfiction The Jews of Harlem Jeffrey S. Gurock Nonfiction The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969) Arlo Haskell Nonfiction They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children Hannah Hahn Nonfiction 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement Jane Ziegelman Nonfiction A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York Liana Finck Visual Arts A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of The Forward Alana Newhouse Fiction An American Type Henry Roth; Willing Davidson, ed. Children's Anti-Semitism: Jewish Immigrants Seek Safety in America (1881-1914) Dava Pressberg Nonfiction At The Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York's Lower East Side: 1880-1920 Lawrence J. Epstein Fiction Bread Givers Anzia Yezierska Nonfiction Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century Gur Alroey Fiction By the Waters of Manhattan Charles Reznikoff; Phillip Lopate, intro. Fiction Displaced Persons Ghita Schwarz Nonfiction Emma Lazarus Esther Schor Fiction From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays Edna Nahshon, ed. Nonfiction In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States Victoria Hattam Nonfiction Inventing Great Neck-Jewish Identity and the American Dream Judith S. Goldstein Nonfiction Jewish Maxwell Street Stories Shuli Eshel and Roger Schatz Nonfiction Little Failure: A Memoir Gary Shteyngart Nonfiction Miriam's Kitchen Elizabeth Ehrlich Fiction Modern Girls Jennifer S. Brown Nonfiction My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans. Fiction Natasha: And Other Stories David Bezmozgis Nonfiction Old Lives and New: Soviet Immigrants in Israel and America Edith Rogovin Frankel Fiction One Foot in America Yuri Suhl Fiction One More Year Sana Krasikov Fiction Stations West Allison Amend Nonfiction The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King Rich Cohen Fiction The Free World David Bezmozgis Fiction The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel Helene Wecker Fiction The Last Chicken in America Ellen Litman Fiction The Little Bride Anna Solomon Nonfiction The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus From Old Cairo to the New World Lucette Lagnado Nonfiction The Rise of Abraham Cahan Seth Lipsky Fiction Unspeakable Things Kathleen Spivack Fiction Unterzakhn Leela Corman Fiction Up From Orchard Street Eleanor Widmer Children's A Nickel, a Trolley, a Treasure House Sharon Reiss Baker; Beth Peck, illus. Children's All-of-a-Kind Family Sydney Taylor Children's Berchick Esther Silverstein Blanc; Tennessee Dixon, illus. Children's Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909 Michelle Markel; Melissa Sweet, illus. Children's Brooklyn Bridge Karen Hesse; Chris Sheban, illus. Children's Ellis Island: An Interactive History Adventure Michael Burgan Children's Ellis Island: Coming to the Land of Liberty Raymond Bial Children's Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty Linda Glaser; Claire A Nivola, illus. Children's Guttersnipe Jane Cutler; Emily Arnold McCully, illus. Children's Ice Cream Town Rona Arato Children's Jewish Immigrants 1880-1924: Coming to America Series Susan E. Haberle Children's Junk Man's Daughter Sonia Levitan; Guy Porfirio, illus. Children's Laundry Day Maurie J. Manning Children's Liberty's Voice: The Story of Emma Lazarus Erica Silverman; Stacey Schuett, illus. Children's Mendel's Accordian Heidi Smith Hyde; Johanna Van Der Sterre, illus. Children's Miriam's Journey: Discovering a New World Robin K. Levinson. Drusilla Kehl, illus Children's Naming Liberty Jane Yolen; Jim Burke, illus. Nonfiction Pasta, Fried Rice and Matzoh Balls: Immigrant Cooking in America Loretta Frances Ichord; Jan Davey Ellis, illus. Children's The King of Mulberry Street Donna Jo Napoli
Nonfiction American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York Nomi M. Stolzenberg, David N. Myers
Nonfiction Coming to Terms with America: Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture Jonathan D. Sarna
Nonfiction Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family Laura Arnold Leibman
Nonfiction Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950 Naomi Prawer Kadar
Nonfiction The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City Scott D. Seligman
Nonfiction The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969) Arlo Haskell
Nonfiction They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children Hannah Hahn
Nonfiction 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement Jane Ziegelman
Nonfiction At The Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York's Lower East Side: 1880-1920 Lawrence J. Epstein
Nonfiction Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century Gur Alroey
Nonfiction In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States Victoria Hattam
Nonfiction My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
Nonfiction The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus From Old Cairo to the New World Lucette Lagnado
Children's Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909 Michelle Markel; Melissa Sweet, illus.
Nonfiction Pasta, Fried Rice and Matzoh Balls: Immigrant Cooking in America Loretta Frances Ichord; Jan Davey Ellis, illus.
