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The Student Bookshelf has resources that your students and you may find useful and that are either primary sources or are age appropriate for middle school readers.  The items below are written for adults but are accessible for non-specialists.

Books (GREEN = free ONLINE or FREE during pandemic from national emergency library)

Mordechay Arbell

• The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas

Martin A.  Cohen

• The Martyr Luis de Carvajal: A Secret Jew in Sixteenth-century Mexico

Hasia Diner

•  A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880
•  A New Promised Land: A History of Jews in America
• Jews in America [for children]
• The Jews of the United States, 1654-2000

Eli Faber

• Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade
• A Time for Planting: the First Migration, 1654-1820

Saul S. Friedman

• * Jews and the American Slave Trade

Laura A. Leibman

• The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects
• Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life

Seymour B. Liebman

• The Jews in New Spain: Faith, Flame, and the Inquisition

Pamela Nadell

• America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

Joseph R. Rosenbloom

• A biographical dictionary of early American Jews: Colonial Times through 1800

Jonathan Sarna

• The American Jewish Experience
• American Judaism: A History

Irene Silverblatt

• Modern Inquisitions : Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World

Ilan Stavans

• The Scroll and the Cross : 1,000 years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature

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