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Jewish Agrarian Holdings at Penn Libraries

Primary Sources

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Manuscript Material

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Printed Primary Resources

Section titled “Printed Primary Resources”

Association of Jewish Immigrants

Section titled “Association of Jewish Immigrants”
Annual Reports
Section titled “Annual Reports”

Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants

Section titled “Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants”
Annual and Semi-Annual Reports
Section titled “Annual and Semi-Annual Reports”

Baron de Hirsch Fund

Section titled “Baron de Hirsch Fund”

Birobidzhan

Section titled “Birobidzhan”
  • Iḳor Yor-Bukh. Nyu-Yorḳ: Natsyonaln Eḳzeḳuṭiṿ Ḳomiṭeṭ fun Iḳor, 1932 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9977925839503681
  • Obshchestvo po zemelʹnomu ustroĭstvu trudi︠a︡shchikhsi︠a︡ evreev. [Birobidzhan; Mosḳṿe : Farlag “Emes”, 1932]: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9977613549703681 .
  • Talmy, Leon, Oyr Royer Erd: Mit Der “ikor”-Ekspeditsye In Biro-Bidzshan. Nyu-York: “Freyheyt,”, 1931. https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9923844493503681
  • Territorialʹnyĭ organ Federalʹnoĭ sluzhby gosudarstvennoĭ statistiki po Evreĭskoĭ avtonomnoĭ oblasti [issuing body]:
    • Demograficheskiĭ Ezhegodnik Evreĭskoĭ Avtonomnoĭ Oblasti: Statisticheskiĭ Sbornik. Birobidzhan: Evrstat, (n.d.).
    • Evreĭskai︠a︡ Avtonomnai︠a︡ Oblastʹ v T︠s︡ifrakh: Statisticheskiĭ Spravochnik. Birobidzhan (n.d.).
    • Promyshlennoe Proizvodstvo v Evreĭskoĭ Avtonomnoĭ Oblasti.
    • Sot︠s︡ialʹnoe Polozhenie i Urovenʹ Zhizni Naselenii︠a︡ Evreĭskoĭ Avtonomnoĭ Oblasti (n.p., nd).
  • Zalbeferṭ, D., Y. Aniloviṭsh, S. Ḳadushin, and ג. קלעצקין. Birebidzshanish:

Industrial Removal Office.

Section titled “Industrial Removal Office.”
Jewish Agricultural Society.
Section titled “Jewish Agricultural Society.”

Jewish Alliance of America

Section titled “Jewish Alliance of America”

Serials

Section titled “Serials”
  • Der Yudisher farmer = The Jewish farmer. = ‏דער יודישער פארמער Nyu-Yorḳ : Herman Rozenṭhal, 1891-1892 Holdings: Complete. Notes: “Monaṭlikhe tsayṭshrifṭ fir landṿirṭhshafṭlikhe ḳolonizatsyon.” “Heroysgegeben fon Herman Rozenṭhal”—Nos. 1-8. “Heroysgegeben fon dem Agriḳulṭur byuro des Baron da-Hirsh fonds”—Nos. 9-12. From vol. 1, no. 3, a serial novel was published in parts at the back of each issue titled Meyer Yezefoṿiṭsh : roman / fun Elize Arzsheshḳa. Paged continuously between each issue (with pagination error, p. 1-28, 26-37) and incomplete at the time of the journal’s demise. Novel originally in Polish; translator to Yiddish unknown. Likely continued in 1908 by the serial Der Idisher farmer. https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9968558033503681
  • Der Idisher farmer = The Jewish farmer. = דער אידישער פארמער New York : The Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society, 1908-1959. Holdings: v.1:n.1-5,7-8 (1908), v.2 (1909), v.3: n.1,3,4,6,8,11 (1910), v.4:n.2,4-7,9-10 (1911), v.9:n.8(1917), v.11:n.1,6 (1919). https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9923846003503681
  • Annual report - Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society. New York, Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society, 1900-1921 Holdings: 1900-1902, 1904-1909, 1916-1917, 1920-1921. https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9910762583503681
  • ha-Śadeh. = השדה = Hassadeh Tel-Aviv : Histadrut ha-poʻalim ha-ḥaḳlaʾim be-E. Y [Erets Yisra’el] Holdings: 1921 no. 8, v.12 1932 no.3 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9923861153503681

Films

Section titled “Films”

Film collection on Jewish agricultural settlement in the USSR donated by Jonathan Dekel-Chen, April 2009.

All of these films are for research and teaching purposes only. They must not be copied in any way nor shown at major public events without prior consent.

  • Raw material for Back to the Soil: A Story of Jewish Hope, Struggle and Achievement, photographed by James H. Becker, including material from Greece and Mandatory Palestine (black and white, silent with English subtitles, 25 minutes, incomplete,1927). From the American Jewish Archive, Cincinnati, OH., “American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,” James H. Becker, Motion Picture Footage, Video Tape Recording no. 368. https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948134913503681
  • Back to the Soil: A Story of Jewish Hope, Struggle and Achievement (black and white, silent with English subtitles, produced by the AJJDC, 32 minutes 1927). From The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948134913503681
  • Evrei na zemle [Jews on the Land]. Abram Room, director (black and white, silent with Russian subtitles, 35 millimeters, 20 feet, Kiev: All-Ukrainian Board of Film and Photography, 1927): https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948151803503681
  • Iskateli schast’ia [Seekers of Happiness]. Vladimir Korsh-Sablin, director (black and white, sound [Russian with English subtitles], 84 minutes, 1934). From The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9947608013503681
  • Agro Joint: Founding a New Life (black and white, sound [English], 16 millimeters, 1,138 feet, 32 minutes, 1936). From The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University.
  • Composite disc on Birobidzhan. From the Steven Spielberg National Jewish Film Archive, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948152283503681
    • Birobizhan. (black and white, sound [Russian], circa 1936). Includes scenes from performances by Birobidzhan Yiddish Theatre, 20 minutes.
    • Series of short films from 1930s, probably produced by ICOR, some documentary, some fictional accounts of Birobidzhan, (sound, Russian and Yiddish, 10 minutes).
    • Birobidzhan. Produced by Communist Party of the Jewish Autonomous Region (sound in Russian and color, 11 minutes, circa 1970). Official retrospective of development of EAO, includes aerial photography and panoramas. Scene from editorial office of newspaper Birobizhaner Shtern.
    • Na beregakh biry i bidzhana. [on the banks of the Biro and Bidzhan] Studio Kinokhronika, USSR. (sound in Russian, color, 11 minutes, circa 1970)
    • ICOR investigative expedition to Birobidzhan. Expedition included F.S. Harris, J.B. Davidson, Charles Kuntz, Benjamin Brown, Kieffer Sauls, and Leon Talmy. Summer 1929, via scenes in Ukrainian towns, Jewish colonies in Crimea and Vladivostok (subtitles in English, silent, black and white, 20 minutes, incomplete, 1929).

Maps

Section titled “Maps”

Cyprus

Section titled “Cyprus”
  • Cyprus Agricultural Settlement

Jamaica

Section titled “Jamaica”

Suriname

Section titled “Suriname”

Pale of Settlement

Section titled “Pale of Settlement”

Russia in Europe Showing Pale of Jewish Settlement, 1891### United States

United States

Section titled “United States”

[Industrial Removal Office]. Land Ḳarṭe Fun Di Fereynigṭe Shṭaaṭen. [Marina del Rey, Ca.: Legendary Graphics, 1999]. Facsimile.” Reproduced in a limited edition on antique mohawk archival eggshell finish paper in rich sepia tones”. “The Industrial Removal Office was an American movement to disperse Jewish immigrants throughout the United States from 1900 to 1917.”

Florida

Section titled “Florida”
  • Bradford Map of Florida (1835) one of the earliest maps to depict the location of Micanopy, a few miles northwest of which was the first Jewish communal settlement in the U.S., founded in 1822 by Moses Elias Levy. [recent Kaplan Collection acquisition; not yet scanned; see book by C. Monaco about Moses Levy in bibliography)]

Kansas

Section titled “Kansas”

North Dakota

Section titled “North Dakota”

Photography and Postcard Collections:

Section titled “Photography and Postcard Collections:”
  • Baron Holy Land Postcard Collection (not yet digitized)
  • Lazard Holy Land Book and Postcard Collection (not yet digitized)
  • Lenkin Family Collection of Photography of the Holy Land on Colenda
  • Mandate Palestinian Jewish photographers Zoltán Kluger, Eliezer Gelgor, Ephraim (Efrem) Ilani, Hans Chaim Finn, Yehuda Eisenstark, Assaf Kuttin, Shimon Rapaport, Sam Frank, and Paul Gross
  • Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica photographic holdings.
  • Salzmann Photography Collection (Romania; Turkey).

Secondary Sources

Section titled “Secondary Sources”
  • Amit-Cohen, Irit. Ha-Ḥidah Me-Aḥore Ha-Beroshim: Ḥaṿot Ṿe-Ḥevrot Maṭaʻim Be-Mishor Ha-Ḥof Bi-Teḳufat Ha-Mandaṭ. Yerushalayim: Hotsaʾat sefarim ʻa. sh. Y. L. Magnes, Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit, 2006.
  • Anner, Zeʼev. Sipure Moshavot: Sipuran Shel Ḥamishim U-Shetayim Ha-Moshavot Be-E.y.. [Tel Aviv]: Miśrad ha-biṭaḥon, 1996.
  • Avni, Haim. Argenṭinah, Ha-Arets Ha-Yeʻudah: Mifʻal Ha-Hityashvut Shel Ha-Baron Deh Hirsh Be-Argenṭinah. Jerusalem: Hotsaʾat sefarim ʻal shem Y.L. Magnes, ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit, 733 / 1973.
  • Bardin, Shlomo, Pioneer Youth In Palestine. [Westport, Conn.: Hyperion Press], 1976. [reprint of 1932 edition].
  • Barṭal, Yiśraʼel., and Shimon Shamir. Bet Salomon: Sheloshah Dorot Shel Meḥadshe Ha-Yishuv. Yerushalayim: Merkaz Zalman Shazar le-ḥeḳer toldot ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi, 774 / 2014.
  • Bein, Alex, The History of Jewish Agricultural Settlement In Palestine. Jerusalem: Rubin Mass for the Zionist Organisation Youth Department, 1945.
  • Bein, Alex, Toldot Ha-Hityashvut Ha-Tsiyonit. [Ramat-Gan: n.p.], 1970.
  • Belenky, Robert Collective Memories of a Lost Paradise: Jewish Agricultural Settlements In Ukraine During the 1920s and 1930s.. Hanover (New Hampshire): Maddoggerel Publications, 2012.
  • Ben-Artzi, Yossi. Ha-Moshavah Ha-ʻivrit Be-Nof Erets-Yiśra’el, 1882-1914. Yerushalayim: Hotsa’at Yad Yits’ḥaḳ Ben-Tsevi, 1988.
  • Ben-Artzi, Yossi. Early Jewish Settlement Patterns In Palestine, 1882-1914. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1997.
  • Brandes, Joseph., and Martin Douglas. Immigrants to Freedom: Jewish Communities In Rural New Jersey Since 1882. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971.
  • Brill, Jehiel, and Getzel Kressel. Yesud Ha-Maʻalah. Added t.p.: Yesud hamaʻala : the immigration of eleven farmers from Russia in 1883. Yerushalayim : Yad Yitsḥaḳ Ben-Tsevi, 1978.
  • Brodsky, Harold. Land and Community: Geography In Jewish Studies. College Park: University Press of Maryland, 1998.
  • Calof, Rachel, and J. Sanford Rikoon. Rachel Calof’s Story: Jewish Homesteader On the Northern Plains. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
  • Carmel, Alex. Hityashvut Ha-Germanim Be-Erets-Yisrael Be-Shilhe Ha-Tekufah Ha-ʻot’omanit. Yerushalayim : ha-Ḥevrah ha-Mizraḥit ha-Yiśreʼelit : [ha-hafatsah ha-rashit, Sokhnut sefarim Tamir], 1973.
  • Dekel-Chen, Jonathan L. Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924-1941. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
  • Dekel-Chen, Jonathan L. Maḥaneh Meshutaf?: Ḳoʼoperatsyah Ba-Hityashvut Ha-Yehudit Ha-Ḥaḳlaʼit Be-Rusyah Uva-ʻolam, 1890-1941. Ramat Efʻal: Yad Ṭabenḳin, 2008
  • Dubrovsky, Gertrude Wishnick, The Land Was Theirs: Jewish Farmers In the Garden State. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992.
  • Dymshit︠s︡, V. A. The Hope and the Illusion: The Search for a Russian Jewish Homeland : a Remarkable Period In the History of ORT, 1921 to 1938. London: World ORT, 2006.
  • Eisenberg, Ellen. Jewish Agricultural Colonies In New Jersey, 1882-1920. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
  • Elk, Joel. Die Jüdischen Kolinien In Russland: Kulturhistorische Studie Und Beitrag Zu Geschichte Der Juden In Russland. Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1970.
  • Ettinger, Akiba. ʻim Ḥaḳlaʼim Yehudim Ba-Tefutsot. Merḥavyah: Sifriyat poʻalim, 1942
  • Evenari, Michael, Leslie Shanan, and Naphtali Tadmor. The Negev: The Challenge of a Desert. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.
  • Freidenberg, Judith. The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
  • Friedgut, Theodore H., , and Israel Mandelkern. Stepmother Russia, Foster Mother America: Identity Transitions In the New Odessa Jewish Commune, 1881-1891 & Recollections of a Communist. Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2014],
  • Frischer, Dominique. Le Moïse Des Amériques: Vies Et Oeuvres Du Munificent Baron De Hirsch. Paris: B. Grasset, 2002.
  • Gazit, Dov., and Getzel Kressel. Toldot Ha-Hityashvut Ha-Ḥaḳlaʾit Be-Erets-Yiśraʾel. [Tel Aviv?]: Hutsa la-or ʻal yede ha-Agaf le-ḥinukh ḥaḳlaʾi ṿe-yami ṿe-Histadrut ha-poʻalim ha-ḥaḳlaʾim, ha-Merkaz ha-ḥaḳlaʾi, 722 / 1962.
  • Gerchunoff, Alberto, Argentina: País De Advenimineto. Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1952.
  • Gerchunoff, Alberto, The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas. New York: Abelhard, 1955.
  • Gerchunoff, Alberto, Los Gauchos Judíos. prólogo de Martiniano Leguizamón ; ensayo de Luis Emilio Soto ; ilus. de Víctor Rebuffo Buenos Aires: Aguilar, 1984.
  • Gessen, Masha Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region. First edition. New York : Nextbook/Schocken, [2016].
  • Gilʻadi, Dan. The Agronomic Development of the Old Colonies In Eretz Israel (1882-1914) : Case Studies. Jerusalem: Institute of Asian and African Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1970.
  • Glazier, Jack. Dispersing the Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants across America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998.
  • Goldberg, Robert Alan, Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah, and Their World. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986.
  • Grunwald, Kurt, Türkenhirsch: A Study of Baron Maurice De Hirsch, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. [Jerusalem]: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1966.
  • Halperin, Ḥayyim, Changing Patterns In Israel Agriculture. London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1957.
  • Harozen, Yaʻaḳov, Ḥazon Ha-Hitnaḥalut Ba-Galil: Toldot Ha-Moshavot Rosh Pinah, Yesud Ha-Maʻalah, Mishmar Ha-Yaren… Jerusalem: Mosad ha-Rav Ḳuḳ, 1971.
  • Hashulami, Yaʼir, and ʻAdin Shulami. Olam Holekh Ṿe-Neʻelam: Ha-Ḥaḳla’ut Ba-Moshavah Ha-ʻivrit Bi-Shenot Ha-ʻeśrim Shel Ha-Meʾah Ha-ʻeśrim : Pirḳe Zikhronot. Tel-Aviv: Milo,c1995.
  • Ḥazan, Berṭah. Ha-Adam—Madbir Ha-Shemamah: Nośe Limudi Le-Gil 13-14. [Merḥavyah]: [s.n.], 712 / 1952.
  • Herscher, Uri D. Jewish Agricultural Utopias In America, 1880-1910. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981.
  • Hoffman, Anthony August. Panic Emigration: Jewish Agricultural Settlements in Bolivia and the Dominican Republic, 1935-1960. University of California, Los Angeles, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016.
  • Kagedan, Allan L. Soviet Zion: The Quest for a Russian Jewish Homeland. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
  • Kann, Kenneth. Comrades and Chicken Ranchers: The Story of a California Jewish Community. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
  • Kaplan, Marion A. Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement In Sosúa, 1940-1945. New York: Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2008.
  • Kark, Ruth., Ran Aharonson, and Zvi Shilony. Ḳarḳaʻ Ṿe-Hityashvut Be-Erets-Yiśra’el, 1800-1948. Yerushalayim: ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim, ha-Maḥlaḳah le-ge’ografyah, 1984.
  • Katz, Yossi, The Land Shall Not Be Sold In Perpetuity: The Jewish National Fund and the History of State Ownership of Land In Israel. München; Wien: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2016].
  • Katznelson-Shazar, Rachel, The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine. Westport, Conn.: Hyperion Press, 1976.
  • Keidar, David. Ḳolonyah Ṿilah. Tel-Aviv: Sifriyat poʻalim, 1989.
  • Kuchenbecker, Antje, Zionismus Ohne Zion: Birobidz̆an : Idee Und Geschichte Eines Jüdischen Staates In Sowjet-Fernost. Berlin: Metropol, 2000.
  • Lavender, Abraham D., and Clarence B Steinberg. Jewish Farmers of the Catskills: A Century of Survival. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 1995.
  • Lee, Samuel James. Moses of the New World: The Work of Baron De Hirsch. New York: T. Yoseloff, 1970.
  • Levavi, Jacob. Ha-Hityashvut Ha-Yehudit Be-Birobig’an. Yerushalayim: ha-Ḥevrah ha-hisṭorit ha-Yiśreʾelit, 725 / 1965.
  • Levin, Mordechai. ʻerkhe Ḥevrah Ṿe-Khalkalah Ba-Ide’ologyah Shel Teḳufat Ha-Haśkalah. Yerushalayim: Mosad Byaliḳ, 1975.
  • Levine, Herman J., and Benjamin Miller. The American Jewish Farmer In Changing Times. New York: Jewish Agricultural Society, 1966.
  • Lieblich, Amia, Kibbutz Makom: Report From an Israeli Kibbutz. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.
  • Lilker, Shalom, Kibbutz Judaism: A New Tradition In the Making. Darby, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1982.
  • Melikhov, Aleksandr Birobidzhan—Zemli︠a︡ Obetovannai︠a︡. Moskva: Tekst, 2009.
  • Monaco, C. S., Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
  • Munitz, Arieh. Irgune “ort” Bi-Verit Ha-Moʾatsot Ba-Shanim 1917-1938. Tel Aviv: ha-Agudah le-ḥeḳer toldot ha-Yehudim, ha-Makhon le-ḥeḳer ha-tefutsot, 741 / 1981.
  • Near, Henry. The Kibbutz Movement: A History. Oxford [England]: Published for the Littman Library by Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Nivat, Anne. La République Juive De Staline [Paris] : Fayard, [2013].
  • Norman, Theodore, An Outstretched Arm: A History of the Jewish Colonization Association. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1985.
  • Onne, Elia. Mamlakhto Ha-Filanṭropit Shel Nadvan Yehudi: Mifʻal Ḥayaṿ Shel Ha-Baron Moris Deh-Hirsh. Tel Aviv: Bet ha-tefutsot ʻal shem Naḥum Goldman, 1982.
  • Ornstein-Galicia, Jacob, Jewish Farmer In America: The Unknown Chronicle. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
  • Paz-Yeshayahu, Abigail. Tenaʼim Shel Shutafut: Ḳevutsah, Ḳomunah Artsit Ṿe-Ḳibuts, 1910-1926. Title on added t.p.: Patterns of partnership : kvutza, nationwide commune and kibbutz 1910-1926. Śedeh Boḳer : Mekhon Ben-Guryon le-ḥeḳer Yiśraʼel ṿeha-Tsiyonut ; Ramat Efʻal : Yad Ṭabenḳin, [2012].
  • Patt, Ruth Marcus. The Jewish Scene In the Central Jersey Rural Areas. Supplement No. 2. [New Brunswick, N.J.]: [Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey], 1982.
  • Peck, Abraham J. The American Jewish Farmer: An Exhibit Sponsored by the American Jewish Archives. [Cincinnati, Ohio: American Jewish Archives, 1986.
  • Rockaway, Robert A., Words of the Uprooted: Jewish Immigrants In Early Twentieth-Century America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998.
  • Rosenthal-Shnaiderman, Esther, Birobidzshan Fun Der Noenṭ: Zikhroyne`s, Gesheenishn, Perzenlekhḳeyṭn. [Tel-Oviv]: H. Leyṿiḳ-Farlag baym Fareyn fun Yidishe shraybers un zshurnalisṭn in Yiśroel, 1983.
  • Shmeruk, Chone, Ha-Kibuts Ha Yehudi Ṿeha-Hityashvut Ha-Ḥaḳlaʼit Ha-Yehudit Be-Byelorusyah Ha-Sovyeṭit, 1918-1932. Yerushalayim: [ḥ. mo. l.], 1961.
  • Sofer, Arnon, Ha-Ḥaḳlaʼut — Even Yesod Be-Viṭḥonah Shel Yiśraʼel: ʻiḳru Even Zo Mi-Meḳomah U-Tegalu Ki Ha-Mifʻal Ha-Tsiyoni Kulo Ḳores. Mahadurah reviʻit.
  • [Haifa] : Ḳatedrat Ḥaiḳin le-geʼoʼasṭraṭegyah, Universiṭat Ḥefah, 2013.
  • Spector, Mordecai, and Shemuʼel Rozshansḳi. Der Yidisher Muzshiḳ: Roman. Buenos-Ayres: Yoysef Lifshits-Fond fun der liṭeraṭur-gezelshafṭ baym Yiṿo, 1963.
  • Srebrnik, Henry Felix, Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951. Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2019].
  • Ṭaplitsḳi, Zalman. Temunot She-Lo Dahu: Sipurim Me-Ḥaye Yaldut Ṿe-Noʻar Be-Seg’erah Shel Shenot Ha-ʻeśrim. Tel Aviv: Yaron Golan, 1995.
  • Tartakower, Aryeh, Megilat Ha-Hityashvut. Tel Aviv: M. Nyuman, 718-719 / 1957 or 1958-1958 or 1959.
  • Topkar, Kevser, Templer Ve Yahudiler Osmanlı Filistini’nde Alman Kolonileri (1869-1917). Birinci basım. İstanbul : Taşmektep Yayınları : RDAF Ortadoğu ve Afrika Araştırmacıları Derneği, 2015.
  • Troen, S. Ilan Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs, and Realities In a Century of Jewish Settlement. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
  • Ussoskin, Moshe. Struggle for Survival: A History of Jewish Credit Co-Operatives In Bessarabia, Old-Rumania, Bukovina, and Transylvania. [Jerusalem]: Jerusalem Academic Press, 1975.
  • Vitale, Alessandro. La Regione Ebraica In Russia: Birobidzhan, La Prima Israele. Lugano: G. Casagrande editore, 2005.
  • Weinberg, Robert. Stalin’s Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland : an Illustrated History, 1928-1996. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
  • Weintraub, Dov., Moshe Lissak, and Y Azmon. Moshava, Kibbutz, and Moshav: Patterns of Jewish Rural Settlement and Development In Palestine. Ithaca [N.Y.]: Cornell University Press, 1969.
  • Weintraub, Irwin. Jews In American Agriculture: An Annotated Bibliography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2007.
  • Weitz, Raanan, Ha-Kefar Ha-Yiśreʼeli Be-ʻidan Ha-Tekhnologyah. Tel Aviv: ʻAm ʻoved, 1967.
  • Weitz, Raanan, and Avshalom Rokach. Agricultural Development: Planning and Implementation: An Israeli Case Study. New York: F. A. Praeger, 1968.
  • Wells, Allen, Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
  • Westoff, Charles F. Population and Social Characteristics of the Jewish Community of the Camden Area, 1964. Cherry Hill, N.J.: Jewish Federation of Camden County, 1965.