General CJH Inquiries
Lillian Goldman Reading Room
Ackman and Ziff Genealogy Institute
Search the collections at the Center for Jewish History
Eric Mendelsohn's Synagogues in America / Michael Craig Palmer; with an essay by Ita Heinze-Greenberg. London: Lund Humphries Publishers, 2019.
From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways / Ellen F. Steinberg, Jack H. Prost. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011.
Jewish Communities on the Ohio River: A History / Amy Hill Shevitz.
The Jews of the Midwest, or ride 'em cowboy / Sylvia Kirshner.
Memories of the Jewish Midwest: Mom and Pop Grocery Stores / Omaha: Nebraska Jewish Historical Society, 2011.
And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855 / Lucy Mack Schloff. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1996.
Synagogue Architecture in Michigan and the Midwest: Material Culture and the Dynamics of Jewish Accommodation, 1865-1945 (Volumes I and II) / Rochelle Berger Elstein. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 1986. [Available digitally on-site]
Who Knew?: Stories Unearthed from the Archives / ed. by Linda Mack Schloff. Saint Paul, MN: The Society, 2011.
Bittersweet Berries: Growing up Jewish in Minnesota / Ruth F. Brin.
Building the Modern World : Albert Kahn in Detroit / Michael H. Hodges.
Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs of a Jewish Homesteader / Sophie Trupin. Lincoln: University of New Brunswick Press, 1988.
Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood / Joanne Jacobson. Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press, 2007.
I Remember When...: Personal Recollections and Vignettes of the Sioux City Jewish Community, 1869-1984 / Susan Marks Conner. Sioux City, Iowa: Jewish Federation of Sioux City, 1985.
Jewish Life in Cleveland in the 1920's and 1930's: The Memoirs of a Jewish Journalist / Leon Wiesenfeld. Cleveland: The Jewish Voice Pictorial, 1965.
A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life / Faye Moskowitz. Boston: Godine, 1985.
Leaving South Dakota: A Memoir of a Jewish Feminist Academic / Beryl A. Radin. Herndon, VA: Mascot Books, 2017.
Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop / Joseph Lelyveld. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (who always wanted to be a respectable Jewish mom) by her Bastard Son / Clancy Sigal. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006.
Illinois
Avengers and Defenders: Glimpses of Chicago's Jewish Past / Walter Roth. Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2008.
Five Small Jewish Communities in Illinois: Place and Time in Ottawa, Spring Valley, LaSalle, Joliet and Aurora / Aaron Kohen. Thesis (B.A.) -- University of Chicago, 1995.
History of the Jews of Chicago / ed. by Hyman L. Meites; new introduction by James R. Grossman; foreword by Thomas R. Meites and Jerome B. Meites. Chicago, IL: Chicago Jewish Historical Society: Wellington Pub., 1990.
The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb / Irving Cutler. of Ethnic History of Chicago, 1996.
Looking Backward: True Stories from Chicago's Jewish Past / Walter Roth. Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2002.
Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago / Tobias Brinkmann. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Indiana
Intimate Circles: Nineteenth-Century German Jewish Immigrants in Northeastern Indiana / Judith Saul Stix [Digitized]
Middletown Jews: The Tenuous Survival of an American Jewish Community / edited by Dan Rottenberg; introduction by Dwight W. Hoover.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Iowa
A History of the Sioux City Jewish Community, 1869 to 1969 / by Bernard Shuman. Sioux City, Iowa: Jewish Federation, 1969.
Memories of the Jewish Midwest: Council Bluffs, Iowa Mishpocha / Joey Hoffman. Omaha, NE: Nebraska Jewish Historical Society, 2017.
Mount Sinai Cooks! / Mount Sinai Temple Sisterhood of Sioux City, Iowa.
Kansas
Guide to Jewish life in Kansas City, 1987 / Overland Park, Kan., 1987.
Michigan
Catskills of the Midwest: The Jewish Resort Era in South Haven Driving Tour / South Haven, MI.: Historical Association of South Haven, 2005.
Jewish Detroit / Irwin J. Cohen. Chicago, IL : Arcadia, 2002.
Jewish Life in the Industrial Promised Land, 1855-2005 / Nora Faires and Nancy Hanflik. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2005.
Jews in Michigan / Judith Levin Cantor. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001.
Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit / Lila Corwin Berman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Strangers and Sojourners: A History of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula / Arthur W. Thurner. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, [1994
A Time to Remember: A History of the Jewish Community in South Haven / Bea Kraus. Allegan Forest, Mich.: Priscilla Press, 1999.
Minnesota
Gender, Ethnicity and Space: Jews in Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1900-1930 / Elizabeth Ann. Lorenz-Meyer. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2006.
Jews in Minnesota / Hyman Berman and Linda Mack Schloff; foreword by Bill Holm. St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002.
The Lost Jewish Community of the West Side Flats, 1882-1962 / Gene H. Rosenblum. Chicago, IL: Arcadia Pub., 2002.
Reform Jews of Minneapolis / Rhoda Lewin. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2004.
Missouri
The Lead Belt Jewish Oral History Project / as told to Anita Hecht, Life History Services in collaboration with The Missouri Lead Belt Jewish Historical Society. Madison, Wisconsin: Life History Services, 2012.
Winter Harvest: Jewish Writing in St. Louis, 2006-2011 / ed. by Howard Schwartz and Barbara Raznick. St. Louis, MO: The Brodsky Library Press, 2011.
Zion in the Valley: The Jewish Community of St. Louis / Walter Ehrlich. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997-2002.
Nebraska
Jewish Life in Omaha and Lincoln: A Photographic History / Oliver B. Pollak.
North Dakota
History of the North Dakota Jewish Community / Isadore Papermaster. Milwaukee: 1959.
Jewish Communal Life in Fargo, North Dakota: The Formative Years / Robert J. Lazar. Bismarck: 1969.
Ohio
Jewish Life in Akron / Arlene Cohen Rossen and Beverly Magilavy Rose. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005.
The Jews of Cincinnati / Jonathan D. Sarna and Nancy H. Klein. Cincinnati, OH: Center for Study of the American Jewish Experience, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1989.
Manischewitz, The Matzo Family: The Making of an American Jewish Icon / Laura Manischewitz Alpern; introduction by Jonathan D. Sarna.
Merging Traditions: Jewish Life in Cleveland / Judah Rubinstein with Jane Avner. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2004.
South Dakota
Deadwood's Jewish Pioneers: A Gold Rush Odyssey / Ann Haber Stanton. Prairie Hills Publishing, 2019.
Wisconsin
The Golden Land: 150 Years of Jewish Life in Milwaukee / Ruth Traxler. Milwaukee, Wis.: Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1994.
Jews in Wisconsin / Sheila Terman Cohen. Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2016.