Yale University Library Research Guides: American Religious History: Judaism

Relevant Research Guides

The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism (Online) by Dana Evan Kaplan (Editor) Provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the most important and interesting historical and contemporary facets of Judaism in America.
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature (Online) by Michael P. Kramer (Editor); Hana Wirth-Nesher (Editor) Addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction.
Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture (Online) by Jack R. Fischel (Editor) Chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present, including religion.
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (Online) by Martin Goodman (Editor); Jeremy Cohen (Editor); David Sorkin (Editor) Covers all the main areas currently taught and researched as part of Jewish Studies, including religion and culture.