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• Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941 (originally published 1978; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald H. Bayor (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Jewish Communal Directory: A Classified Guide Book to the Congregations, Fraternal Orders, Lodges, Mutual Benefit Societies, Educational Organizations, Charitable and Philanthropic Institutions and Agencies in the Five Boroughs of Greater New York (1912), by Jewish Community of New York City (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Jewish Communal Register of New York City, 1917-1918 (title page missing; ca. 1917), by Jewish Community of New York City, contrib. by Samuel Margoshes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), by Abraham Cahan (Gutenberg text)
• The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan (Gutenberg text)
• The Un-Christian Jew (New York: The author, 1919), by Lawrence Sterner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896), by Abraham Cahan (Gutenberg text)
• Hungry Hearts (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), by Anzia Yezierska (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1997), by Daniel Soyer (multiple formats at wayne.edu)

• Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1997), by Daniel Soyer (multiple formats at wayne.edu)

• I Will Write It in Their Hearts: A Treasure of Letters from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson: Selections from Ighos Kodesh: Volume I (only extant volume), by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)

• Aufbau (partial serial archives)

• Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Brooklyn Bridge Shooting: An Independent Review and Assessment (ca. 2000), by American Jewish Committee (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Links in the Chassidic Legacy: Biographical Sketches that First Appeared in the Classic Columns of HaTamim, trans. by Shimon Neubort (HTML with commentary at chabad.org)
• The Golden Dynasty: The Lives and Times of the Rizhniner Rebbes, by Yizroel Friedman (frame-dependent HTML at nishmas.org)
• Branches of the Chassidic Menorah: Biographical Stories, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn
  • volume 1: HTML at chabad.org
  • volume 2: HTML at chabad.org
• The Making of Chassidim: A Letter Written by the Previous Lubavitcher, Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Shimon Neubort (HTML at chabad.org)

• To Know and To Care, by Eliyahu Touger and Malka Touger
  • volume 1: HTML at chabad.org
  • volume 2: HTML at chabad.org

• A Prince in Prison: The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe's Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927: An Extract from Likkutei Dibburim, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Uri Kaploun (HTML at chabad.org)

• The Maggid of Mezritch, by Yitzchak Dorfman (frame-dependent HTML at nishmas.org)

• The Holocaust Chronicle (online edition; originally published 2000), by Marilyn J. Harran, Dieter Kuntz, Russel Lemmons, Robert Ashley Michael, Keith H. Pickus, and John K. Roth, contrib. by Abraham J. Edelheit (illustrated HTML at holocaustchronicle.org)

• We Survived: At Last I Speak (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Léon Malmed (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism (New York and London: New York University Press, c1992), ed. by Pearl M. Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron, Lawrence A. Blum, Dennis Krebs, and M. Zuzanna Smolenska (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz: History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2014), by Tuvia Friling, trans. by Haim Watzman (multiple formats at Brandeis)

• From Plotzk to Boston (Boston: W. B. Clarke and Co., 1899), by Mary Antin, contrib. by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• The Promised Land (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912), by Mary Antin
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images

• Letters From the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Helen Waldstein Wilkes (PDF files with commentary at AU Press)

• Letters From the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Helen Waldstein Wilkes (PDF files with commentary at AU Press)

• Jewish Memories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Lucette Valensi and Nathan Wachtel, trans. by Barbara Harshav (HTML at UC Press)

• We Survived: At Last I Speak (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Léon Malmed (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• Selma Metzger Winkler: Her Experience in Nazi Concentration Camp, by Martin A. Winkler (illustrated HTML at remember.org)

• Chachme AHW: Biographien und Grabsteiningschriften der Dajanim, Autoren und der Sonstigen Hervorragenden Männer der Drei Gemeinden Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbek (in Hebrew with German translation; Hamburg: Goldschmidt, 1908), by Eduard Duckesz, trans. by Salomon Goldschmidt
  • German pages first: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Hebrew pages first: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Chachme AHW: Biographien und Grabsteiningschriften der Dajanim, Autoren und der Sonstigen Hervorragenden Männer der Drei Gemeinden Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbek (in Hebrew with German translation; Hamburg: Goldschmidt, 1908), by Eduard Duckesz, trans. by Salomon Goldschmidt
  • German pages first: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Hebrew pages first: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Chachme AHW: Biographien und Grabsteiningschriften der Dajanim, Autoren und der Sonstigen Hervorragenden Männer der Drei Gemeinden Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbek (in Hebrew with German translation; Hamburg: Goldschmidt, 1908), by Eduard Duckesz, trans. by Salomon Goldschmidt
  • German pages first: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Hebrew pages first: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Samuel Montagu, First Baron Swaythling, Born December 21st, 1832, Died January 12th, 1911: A Character Sketch (London: Truslove and Hanson, ca. 1913), by Lilian Helen Montagu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Childhood in Times of War: An Autobiography (1995), by Andrew Shlomo Salamon (illustrated HTML at remember.org)

• A Boy in Hiding: Surviving the Nazis, Amsterdam, 1940-1945 (second edition; Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2016), by Stan Rubens, contrib. by Ronny Rubens (PDF at unl.edu)

• History of Brooklyn Jewry (Brooklyn, NY: Scheba Pub. Co., c1937), by Samuel P. Abelow (page images at HathiTrust)

• Someone is Watching Over Me: A Memoir, by Florence Mayer Lieblich (illustrated HTML at remember.org)

• Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Naomi W. Cohen (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• Distinguished Jews of America (2 volumes, with slightly different subtitles and publisher locations; 1917-1918), ed. by Jacob Pfeffer, contrib. by Albert M. Friedenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From Plotzk to Boston (Boston: W. B. Clarke and Co., 1899), by Mary Antin, contrib. by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• The Promised Land (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912), by Mary Antin
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
• Reminiscences (Cincinnati: Leo Wise and Co., 1901), by Isaac Mayer Wise, ed. by David Philipson (PDF at americanjewisharchives.org)

• A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who Was Taken by the Indians, In the Year 1755, When Only About Twelve Years of Age, and Has Continued to Reside Amongst Them to the Present Time, by James E. Seaver (Gutenberg text)

• The Life and Adventures of Nat Foster, Trapper and Hunter of the Adirondacks, by A. L. Byron-Curtiss (HTML at threerivershms.com)

• Binghamton, Its Settlement, Growth and Development, and the Factors in its History, 1800-1900 (Boston: Century Memorial Pub. Co., 1900), by William S. Lawyer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)

• History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York; With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Co., 1880), by D. Hamilton Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)

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