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American Jewish Historical Society:
In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture / Ted Merwin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway musical / Andrea Most. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2004.
The Process of Americanization as Reflected in the Posters of the American Yiddish Theater, 1899-1929 / Marc Noah Kramer. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University, 1992.
Theatrical Liberalism: Jews and Popular Entertainment in America / Andrea Most. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
American Sephardi Federation:
Jewish Theatrical Activities in Early Nineteenth Century Modern Arabic Theatre: Plays from Algeria and Syria: a study / by Shmuel Moreh, Philip Sadgrove. of Journal of Semitic Studies. Supplement 6, 1996.
Leo Baeck Institute:
Competing Germanies: Nazi, Antifascist, and Jewish Theater in German Argentina, 1933-1965 / Robert Kelz. Ithaca: Cornell University Press: Cornell University Library, 2019.
The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin / Rebecca Rovit. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2012.
Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre / edited by Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie Rokem. of Studies in Theatre History and Culture, 2010.
Wieviel Bart Darf Sein?: Jüdische Figuren im Skandinavischen Theater / Clemens Räthel. 2016.
YIVO:
Jews and Theatre in an Intercultural Context / edited by Edna Nahshon. of Brill's Series in Jewish Studies v. 46. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012.
Jews on Broadway: An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers / Stewart F. Lane. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.
לעקסיקאן פון יידישן טעאטער [Leḳsiḳon fun Yidishn ṭeaṭer] / maṭerialn gezamlṭ un redaḳṭirṭ fun Zalmen Zilbertsṿeyg, bay der nonṭsṭer miṭarbeṭ fun Yaʻaḳov Mesṭel; aroysgegebn unṭer der hashgoḥeh fun der Yidisher Aḳṭiorn-Yunye in Ameriḳe. Nyu-Yorḳ Farlag Elishevaʻ, 1931.
New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway / edited by Edna Nahshon. New York: Columbia University Press in association with the Museum of the City of New York, 2016.
The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater / Alyssa Quint. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2019.
Second Avenue: The Yiddish Broadway / by Diane Cypkin. Michigan: UMI, 1986.
Yiddish Empire: the Vilna Troupe, Jewish theater, and the Art of Itinerancy / Debra Caplan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.
Yeshiva University Museum
Principles of Theatre Art / H.D. Albright, William P. Halstead [and] Lee Mitchell. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955.
Stars, Strikes, and the Yiddish Stage: The Story of the Hebrew Actors' Union / Curator Krysia Fisher; text Edna Nahshon. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2009.