Selective Bibliography on the Pittsburgh Jewish Community

General Histories

Burstin, Barbara Stern. After the Holocaust: The Migration of Polish Jews and Christians to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.

Burstin, Barbara Stern. From Poland to Pittsburgh: The Experience of Jews and Christians who Migrated to Pittsburgh after World War II. Pittsburgh, 1986.

Burstin, Barbara Stern. Steel City Jews: A History of Pittsburgh and its Jewish Community, 1840‐1915. Pittsburgh: printed by author, 2008.

Chamovitz, Sheila. Murray Avenue: A Community in Transition. Videorecording. Pittsburgh: New Day Films, 1984.

Dickman, Gene and Marcia Frumerman, writers and producers. Bridges to History. Videorecording. Pittsburgh: National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, 1980.

Feldman, Jacob S. The Early Migration and Settlement of the Jews in Pittsburgh, 1754‐1894. Pittsburgh: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1986.

Hirsch, Arnold W. Remembering Donora’s Jewish Community. Donora: printed by author, 1995.

The Jewish Criterion 50th Anniversary (1892‐1942) and New Year Edition. Pittsburgh: Jewish Criterion, 1942.

The Jewish Community of Pittsburgh: A Population Study. Pittsburgh: United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh, 1963.

Kessler, Aharon. Our Community and Jewish Education: An Essay. Pittsburgh: Jewish Community Center of Pittsburgh, 1976.

Kuntz, Leonard Irvin. The Changing Pattern of the Distribution of the Jewish Population of Pittsburgh from Earliest Settlement to 1963. Ph.D. thesis, Louisiana State University, 1970.

Landesman, Sarah. The Beginnings of the McKeesport Jewish Community. McKeesport: Gemilas Chesed Synagogue, 1986.

Miller, Julia. Jews Connected with the City of Pittsburgh, 1749‐1865. Master’s thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1929.

Myers, David N. and William V. Rowe, eds. From Ghetto to Emancipation: Historical and Contemporary Reconsiderations of the Jewish Community. Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1997.

Compiled by Laurie Cohen, Jewish Studies Liaison Librarian, University of Pittsburgh

Perlman, Robert. From Shtetl to Milltown: Litvaks, Hungarians, and Galizianers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875‐1925. Pittsburgh: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 2001.

Pine, Kurt. The Jews of the Hill District, 1910‐1940: A Study of Trends. Master’s thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1943.

Pittsburgh and Beyond: The Experience of the Jewish Community: A Guide to the NCJW Pittsburgh Section Oral History Collection. Pittsburgh: National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, 2002.

The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project. Pittsburgh: Carnegie‐Mellon University Libraries. http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/pjn/index.jsp

Ruskin, Ryan S. The Americanization of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants in Pittsburgh, 1893‐1920: A Study of Private Sector Initiation and Development of Progressive Social Welfare Ideas and Programs. B.A. thesis, Princeton University, 1990.

Selavan, Ida Cohen. Adolph Edlis: A Hungarian Jew in Pittsburgh Politics. Pittsburgh: printed by the author, 1982.

Shinedling, Abraham Isaac. West Virginia Jewry: Origins and History, 1850‐1958. 3 vols. Philadelphia: Press of M. Jacobs, 1963.

Silverman, Myrna. Strategies for Social Mobility: Family, Kinship, and Ethnicity within Jewish Families in Pittsburgh. New York: AMS Press, 1989.

Smith, Richard J. and Elizabeth Ann Roberts, compilers. Access to an Oral History Collection: The Jewish Experience in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, 1991.

Skud, Bruce. Ethnicity and Residence within the Jewish Immigrant Community. Seminar paper, University of Pittsburgh, 1975.

Taylor, Maurice. The Jewish Community of Pittsburgh., December 1938: A Sample Study. Pittsburgh, 1941.

Western Pennsylvania Jewish History Project. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Regional Historical Data Archives, 1975.

Westmoreland County Jewish Oral History Collection, 1991‐1998. Pittsburgh , 1991.

Winograd, Leonard. The Horse Dies at Windber: A History of Johnstown’s Jews of Pennsylvania. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall, 1988.

Wissolik, Richard David, Jennifer Campion, Barbara Wissolik, eds. Listen to Our Words: Oral Histories of the Jewish Community of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Latrobe, PA: Saint Vincent College, 1997.

Histories of Agencies or Community Organizations

Bleier, Carol Stein with Lu Donnelly and Samuel P. Granowitz. To Good Health and Life: L’Chaim: A History of Montefiore Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1898‐1990. Pittsburgh: S.P. Granowitz, 1997.

Erste Warshover Unterstitzungs Verein. Golden Anniversary Issue, 1905‐1955. Pittsburgh: Erste Warshover Unterstitzungs Verein, 1955.

Hebrew Institute of Pittsburgh, 1916‐1954. Pittsburgh: The Institute, 1954.

Irene Kaufmann Settlement Photograph Collection. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh’s Digital Research Library, 2004.

The Jewish Community Center of Pittsburgh: The First 100 Years: An Historical Narrative about the Building of this "House" and the People who Made it Happen. Pittsburgh: Jewish Community Center, 1995.

Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania Photographs, 1911‐1989. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh’s Digital Research Library, 2010.

Lindenberg, Sidney J. Combined History of the Anna B. Heldman Community Center and the Irene Kaufmann Settlement. Pittsburgh: Jewish Community Center, 1957.

Magdovitz, Faith Lynn. A Comparison of the Changing Functions of Two Jewish Community Centers as Exemplified by the Jewish Community Center in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Anna B. Heldman Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (formerly the Irene Kaufmann Center). Thesis, Chatham College, 1960.

McClain, Raymond. The Immigrant Years: Irene Kaufmann Settlement, 1895‐1915. n.p.,1969.

Michaels, Lois G. Historical Study of the Growth and Development of the Montefiore Hospital Association of Western Pennsylvania, 1906‐1963. Master’s thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1963.

The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle 25th Anniversary Commemorative Issue Celebrating 25 Years as the Voice of the Jewish Community. Pittsburgh: Jewish Chronicle, 1986.

Sacks, Aaron and Maurice B. Greenbaum. An Approach to Group Work with New Americans: A Description of a Club Group at the Young Men and Women’s Hebrew Association of Pittsburgh, 1949‐ 1950.

Savage, Nathan, ed. Pittsburgh Tri‐State Pinkas. Pittsburgh: Jewish National Fund of America, Pittsburgh Council and Tri‐State Region, 1949.

Selavan, Ida Cohen. The Columbian Council of Pittsburgh, 1894‐1909: A Case Study of Adult Immigrant Education. Master’s thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1976.

Selavan, Ida Cohen, and National Council of Jewish Women. My Voice Was Heard. New York: Ktav, 1981.

Shapiro, Charlotte Heller. The Jewish Family Welfare Association of Pittsburgh: History and Organization. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1933.

Shiloh, Ailon, and National Council of Jewish Women. By Myself, I’m a Book! An Oral History of the Immigrant Jewish Experience in Pittsburgh. Waltham, MA: American Jewish Historical Society, 1972.

Synagogues

B’nai Israel Congregation. Silver Anniversary of Rabbi Benjamin Lichter. Pittsburgh, 1945.

Congregation Beth Shalom, 50th Anniversary Commemorative Issue, 5677‐5727, 1917‐1967, Pittsburgh, Pa. Pittsburgh: Congregation Beth Shalom, 1967.

Congregation Tree of Life. Golden Anniversary Tree of Life 1864‐1914. Pittsburgh: Congregation Tree of Life, 1914.

Historical Miscellanea of Congregation Kether Torah (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1914‐1958. Pittsburgh: Congregation Kether Torah, n.d.

One Hundred Twenty Years: Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: Rodef Shalom Congregation, 1976.

Records of Congregation Beth Hamedrash Hagodol (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1893‐1928.

Records of Shaare Torah Congregation, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1936‐1993.

Records of the Chofetz Chaim Congregation, 1931‐1973.

Rosenman, Shmuel D. Records of Tree of Life Synagogue, Pittsburgh, 1858‐1996.