More Reading

Here are my favorite research materials about Brooklyn and Jewish immigrants in early 20th century:

• “Brownsville: The Jewish Years,” Sylvia Siegel Schmidt, 2007

  • First-hand observations of Brownsville, with great photos of Pitkin Avenue.

• “Jews of Brooklyn,” Ilana Abramovitch and Sean Galvin, 2002

  • A collection of essays on wide-ranging aspects of Jewish life in Brooklyn

• “The Jewish Store,” Stella Suberman, 2001

  • Memoir of a Jewish family living in a small American town in early 1900’s

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, archived at Brooklyn Historical Museum

  • Especially moving are the first-hand accounts of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

• “A Walker in the City,” Alfred Kazin, 1951

  • A visitor returns to his childhood city and reminisces about days gone by

  Here are some good books about Miami in mid-century:

• “To the Golden Cities,” Deborah Dash Moore, 1994

• “Jews of Greater Miami,” Marcia Jo Zerivitz, 2009.

• “Jews of Florida,” Marcia Jo Zerivitz, 2020.