topic:"Jews" found 36 records - Research Collections

Annals of Shaefferstown ; with some reference to the early Jewish community

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19479

Author: Zerbe, Charles M.

Date of Publication: 1907 - 1909.

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 4

Responsibility: by Chas. M. Zerbe.

Author: Zerbe, Charles M.

Place of Publication: [Lebanon, Pa

Publisher: s.n. ] ,

Date of Publication: 1907 - 1909.

Physical Description: p. {294] - 316 ; 24 cm.

Series: In: Lebanon County Historical Society papers and addresses v. IV, 1907 - 1909.

Subjects: Jews - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Shaefferstown (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 4

Avotaynu guide to Jewish genealogy

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15439

Date of Publication: 2004.

Call Number: 929.1 A961

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Alternate Title: Guide to Jewish genealogy; Jewish genealogy

Responsibility: edited by Sallyann Amdur Sack & Gary Mokotoff.

Place of Publication: Bergenfield, N.J

Publisher: Avotaynu,

Date of Publication: 2004.

Physical Description: xv, 608 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Jews - Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Additional Author: Sack, Sallyann Amdur,; Mokotoff, Gary.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.1 A961

Websites

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003022930.html

Centenary journal : Shaarai Shomayim 5617-5717 (1856-1957)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17162

Corporate Author: Congregation Shaarai Shomayim (Lancaster, Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1957?]

Call Number: 296.8 S524L

Corporate Author: Congregation Shaarai Shomayim (Lancaster, Pa.)

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Shaarai Shomayim,

Date of Publication: 1957?]

Physical Description: 40 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "This centenary journal is dedicated to the men and women who, during the past one hundred years, gave of their heart and soul to the building of the Shaarai Shomayim House of God."

Subjects: Congregation Shaarai Shomayim (Lancaster, Pa.) - Anniversaries, etc.; Congregation Shaarai Shomayim (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Jews - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 296.8 S524L

Competition and cooperation : The ambivalent relationship between Jews and Christians in early modern Germany and Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22336

Author: Haeberlein, Mark.

Date of Publication: 2002.

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Responsibility: by Mark Haeberlein and Michaela Schmoelz-Haeberlein.

Author: Haeberlein, Mark.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, PA

Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Notes: This record provides a link to this resource on the publisher's official online repository.

Summary: "One might argue that this act of benevolence between a Jew and his Christian neighbors could have occurred only under the special circumstances of religious freedom and social fluidity that existed on Pennsylvania's postrevolutionary frontier. But recent research shows that such incidents occurred in the Old World as well, even in the settled traditional estate society of the Holy Roman Empire from which Levy's Christian neighbors had come." [from the text]

Subjects: Jews - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - Ethnic relations.

Additional Author: Schmoelz-Haeberlein, Michaela.

Contained In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Volume 126, number 3 (July 2002), p. 409-436Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 HSP v.126

Websites

https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/45549/45270

Discovering your Jewish ancestors

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12436

Author: Krasner-Khait, Barbara.

Date of Publication: 2001.

Call Number: 016.929 K89

Responsibility: Barbara Krasner-Khait.

ISBN: 0944931855

Author: Krasner-Khait, Barbara.

Place of Publication: North Salt Lake, Utah

Publisher: Heritage Quest,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: xiii, 287 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-280) and index.

Subjects: Jews - Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.929 K89

Early American Jewry

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18654

Author: Marcus, Jacob Rader,

Date of Publication: 1951-53.

Call Number: 296 M322

Author: Marcus, Jacob Rader,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America,

Date of Publication: 1951-53.

Physical Description: 2 v. illus., ports., facsim. 22 cm.

Notes: Bibliographical references at the end of each vol.

Contents: v. 1. The Jews of New York, New England, and Canada, 1649-1794.--v. 2. The Jews of Pennsylvania and the South, 1655-1790.

Subjects: Jews - United States; Jews - Canada

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 296 M322

Early Jewish colony in Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7792

Author: Hirsh, Monroe B.

Date of Publication: 1901

for the con- sideration of some York county his- torian. The earliest record we have is the settling in Schaefferstown of some Jewish traders in 1720, and the insti- tution of a cemetery there in 1732. Of this settlement I shall quote Mr. J. F. Sachse later on. �( 92 ) In 1723 a number of Jews accom

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Responsibility: by Monroe B. Hirsh.

Author: Hirsh, Monroe B.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1901

Physical Description: [91]-105 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 5

Subjects: Jews - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Schaefferstown (Pa.) - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 5, number 5 (1901), p. 91-105Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.5