American
Jewish Year Book (annual)
New
York: American Jewish Committee, 1899-2003-4 edition in Reference Room;
earlier (circulating) editions on 2nd level: 296 A512a
Use
in conjunction with JewishGen database of obituaries
Encyclopedia
of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (3 vol.)
Jerusalem;
New York: Yad Vashem; New York University Press, 2001
940.04924
encyclop (1st level, reference)
Condensed
English-language version of Pinkas HaKehillot, Yad Vashem's multi-volume
encyclopedia of communities destroyed in the Holocaust
Gutman,
Israel (ed.)
Encyclopedia
of the Holocaust (2 vol.)
New
York: Macmillan, 1995
940.531803
E56 1995 (1st level, reference)
1st
ed., 1990, 4 vol. (3rd level, circulating)
Camps,
massacres, and fates of communities
Geographical
Sources
Columbia
Gazetteer of the World (3 vol.)
New
York: Columbia University Press, 1998
910.3
C7227 (1st level, reference)
Exhaustive
geographical index
Commercial
Atlas and Marketing Guide
Chicago:
Rand McNally, 1869- .
330.9
Rand 2004 (atlas case, 1st level, reference)
Most
detailed US maps; also in Western History/Genealogy and Government Documents
Army
Map Service Collection
Government.
Documents, 4th level, Map Area
Extremely
detailed World War II era maps--see your shtetl up close as it was. Use
in conjunction with finding aids and gazetteers published by U.S. Board
on Geographical Names
Gilbert,
Martin
Atlas
of Jewish History
New
York: William Morrow, 1993
911.56
Gilbert 1993 (3rd level, circulating)
Schematic
maps of historical themes.
United
States Holocaust Museum
Historical
Atlas of the Holocaust
New
York: Macmillan, 1995
940.531802
H629 (Reference and 3rd level)
More
detailed than Gilbert's earlier atlas.
Magocsi,
Paul Robert
Historical
Atlas of East Central Europe
Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 1995
911.47
M275hi 1995 (3rd level, circulating)
Magocsi,
Paul Robert
Ukraine,
A Historical Atlas
Toronto;
Buffalo: University of Toronto, 1985
911.4771
M275uk (2nd level, oversized)
Excellent
atlases of major areas of settlement.
Vital
Records Sources
Kemp,
Thomas Jay
Vital
Records Handbook, 4th ed.
Baltimore:
Genealogical Publishing, 2000
352
K
How
to get birth, marriage & death records worldwide.
Sourcebook
to Public Record Information: The Comprehensive Guide to County, State
& Federal Public Records Sources, 2nd ed.
Tempe,
AZ: BRB Publications, 2001
352.387
S724 (1st level, reference)
Contact
information (including web sites) for government and court records with
fee schedules.
Translation
Aids
Bilingual
dictionaries available for reference and on 2nd level (circulating), including
Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Polish, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian,
Romanian, and many other languages.
Names,
Famous and Otherwise
Biography
and Genealogy Master Index
Online
under Research Resources; Databases A-Z.
One-stop
shopping for published biographies. DPL has many (but not all) indexed
sources.
Variety
Obituaries (15 vol.)
New
York: Garland, 1988- .
790.2
V4265 (1st level, reference)
If
any family members had Hollywood or Broadway connections, check here for
death notices.
Directory
of Physicians in the United States (4 vol., annual)
Chicago:
American Medical Association, 1992-
610.2573
Director (1st level, reference)
Find
your cousin, the doctor…
Martindale-Hubbell
Law Directory
Summit,
NJ: Martindale-Hubbell
345.3
Martinda (1st level, reference)
…or
the lawyer. Note: DPL has only Colorado volume; also online at www.martindale.com
Directory
of American Scholars (6 vol.)
Detroit:
Gale Research, 2002
001.202573
Director 2002 (1st level, reference)
Track
down professors and mavens
Holde,
Artur
Jews
in Music: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Mid-20th Century
New
York: Bloch Pub., 1974
781.72924H711JE
(2nd level, circulating)
Who's
Who in American Jewry
Los
Angeles: Standard Who's Who, 1980
920.009292
W62 (2nd level, Supplemental Ref.)
Who's
Who in World Jewry
New
York: n.p., 1955, 1965, 1972, 1978, 1985
(2nd
level, Supplemental Reference)
A
Sampling of Community Histories
Gerber,
Jane S.
Jews
of Spain: A History of the
Sephardic
Experience
New
York: Free Press, 1999
946.004924
G313je (3rd level, circulating)
Rose,
Emily C.
Portraits
of Our Past: Jews of
the
German Countryside
Philadelphia:
Jewish Publication Society, 2001
305.892404
ROSE (3rd level, circulating)
Dubnow,
S. M.
History
of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the Earliest Times to the Present
Day
Philadelphia:
Jewish Publication Society, 1916
933
D85h (3 vol., 1916 ed.); 947.004924 D852hi 1975 (3 vol. in 2, 1975 reprint
ed.)
Magisterial
history; circulating (3rd level)
Frojimovics,
Kinga
Jewish
Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History
Budapest;
New York: Central European University Press, 1999
943.912004
J556 (3rd level, circulating)
Beller,
Stephen
Vienna
and the Jews, 1867-1938:
A
Cultural History
Cambridge;
New York: Cambridge U. Pr., 1989
943.613
B416vi (3rd level, circulating)
Gans,
H. M.
Memorbook:
History of Dutch Jewry
from
the Renaissance to 1940
Baarn:
Bosch & Keuning, 1977
949.200492
G157me (3rd level, circulating)
Uchill,
Ida Libert
Pioneers,
Peddlers & Tsadikim:
The
Story of Jews in Colorado, 3rd ed.
Boulder:
Univ. Pr. of Colorado, 2000
296
UCHILL P (2nd level, circulating)
Rischin,
Moses & John Livingston (eds.)
Jews
of the American West
Detroit:
Wayne State Univ. Pr., 1991
978.004924
J556 (3rd level, circulating)
Boonin,
Harry
Jewish
Quarter of Philadelphia:
A
History and Guide, 1881-1930
Phila.:
Jewish Walking Tours of Phila., 1999
974.811004
B644je (3rd level, circulating)
Sandler,
Gilbert
Jewish
Baltimore: A Family Album
Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins U. Pr., 2000
975.260049
S217je (3rd level, circulating)
Howe,
Irving
World
of Our Fathers
New
York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976
301.451924
H838wo (2nd level, circulating)
A
classic study of the Lower East Side.
Israelowitz,
Oscar
Oscar
Israelowitz's Lower East Side Tourbook
Brooklyn:
O. Israelowitz, 1998
917.471043
I859os 1998 (3rd level, circulating)
Lists
of defunct synagogues, period street maps.
Gurock,
Jeffrey
When
Harlem Was Jewish, 1870-1930
New
York: Columbia University Press, 1979
974.710049
G966wh (3rd level, circulating)
Who
knew?
Chatanow,
Gerald and Bernard D. Schwartz
Another
Time, Another Place: A Neighborhood Remembered
974.723
Chatanow (3rd level, circulating)
Brownsville
and East New York, Brooklyn.
Leonard,
Joanne Rose
Soup
Has Many Eyes: From Shtetl to Chicago: A Memoir of One Family's Journey
New
York: Bantam Books, 2000
977.31104
L552so (3rd level, circulating)
Moore,
Deborah Dash
To
the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A.
New
York; Toronto: Free Press, 1994
975.9381
M782to (3rd level, circulating)
Queen
City Refuge: An Oral History of Cincinnati’s Jewish Refugees from Nazi
Germany
West
Orange, NJ: Behrman House, 1989
977.178
Q31 (3rd level, circulating)
Elkin,
Judith Laikin
Jews
of Latin America
New
York: Holmes & Meier, 1998
980.004924
E43je (3rd level, circulating)
Kaplan,
Mendel & Marian Robertson (eds.)
Founders
and Followers: Johannesburg Jewry, 1887-1915
Cape
Town: Vlaeberg Publishers, 1991
968.221004
F825 (3rd level, circulating)
Ross,
James R.
Escape
to Shanghai: A Jewish Community in China
New
York: Free Press, 1994
951.132004
R733es (3rd level, circulating)
Berrol,
Selma
East
Side/East End: Eastern European Jews in London and New York, 1870-1920
Westport,
CT: Praeger, 1994
974.710049
B459eas (3rd level, circulating)
Rejwan,
Nissim
Jews
of Iraq: 3000 Years of History & Culture
Boulder:
Westview Press, 1985
956.700492
R279je (3rd level, circulating)
Genealogical
Handbooks
Rottenberg,
Dan
Finding
Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy
New
York: Random House, 1977
929.1028
R747fi (3rd level, circulating)
The
book that started it all, dated but inspiring.
Kurzweil,
Arthur
From
Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family
History
New
York: HarperCollins, 1994
929.1024
K967fr 1994 (3rd level, circulating)
Extensively
revised; still useful.
Eakle,
Arlene & Johni Cerny
Source:
A Guidebook of American Genealogy
Salt
Lake City: Ancestry, 1984
929.10973
S724 (3rd level, circulating)
Excellent
overview of sources and methods.
Parker,
J. Carlyle
Going
to Salt Lake City to Do Family History Research,
2nd ed.
Turlock,
CA: Marietta, 1993
026.929107
P226go (2nd level, circulating)
Read
this before you make the pilgrimage.
Szucs,
Loretto Dennis
They
Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins
Salt
Lake City: Ancestry, 1998
929.107207
S998th (3rd level, circulating)
Superb
overview of citizenship records.
Coletta,
John Philip
They
Came in Ships
Salt
Lake City: Ancestry, 1989
929.1072
COLLETTA T (3rd level, circulating)
A
primer on passenger list research.
Travel
Guides
Frank,
Ben G.
Travel
Guide to Jewish Europe
Gretna,
LA: Pelican, 2001
940
F851tr 2001 (3rd level, circulating)
Kogan,
Joram
Poland’s
Jewish Landmarks: A Travel Guide
New
York: Hippocrene, 2001
914.38
Kagan 2001 (3rd level, circulating)
Jewish
Travel Guide 2004
London;
Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell
910.88296
Jewish (3rd level, circulating)
Some
Personal Favorites
Kugelmass,
Jack & Jonathan Boyarin (eds.)
From
a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry
Bloomington:
Indiana Univ. Pr., 1998
943.004924
F952 (3rd level, circulating)
An
anthology of yizkor books in translation.
Eliach,
Yaffa
There
Once Was a World: A Nine-Hundred Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
Boston:
Little, Brown, 1998
947.93
E42th (3rd level, circulating)
The
stories behind the pictures at the Holocaust Museum.
Bintel
Brief, Vol. II: Letters to the Jewish Daily Forward, 1950-1980
New
York: Viking, 1981
974.710049B5192
(3rd level, circulating)
Letters
from lonely-hearts in a strange land.
Richmond,
Theo
Konin:
A Quest
New
York: Pantheon, 1995
943.84
R414ko (3rd level, circulating)
An
English Jew reconstructs his ancestral shtetl's history-the book I wish
I'd written!
