Ambassador John L. Loeb Visitors Center at the Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island

Bibliography

General History and Reference

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Karp, Abraham J. Haven and Home: A History of the Jews in America. New York: Schocken Books, 1985.

Marcus, Jacob Rader. The American Jew, 1585-1990: A History. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, Inc., 1995.

Marcus, Jacob Rader. The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, Inc., 1994.

Marcus, Jacob Rader, ed. Memoirs of American Jews, 1775-1977. 3 vols. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1955.

Marcus, Jacob Rader. United States Jewry, 1776-1985. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989.

Rezneck, Samuel. Unrecognized Patriots: The Jews in the American Revolution. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975.

Sachar, Howard. A History of the Jews in America. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Sarna, Jonathan D. Jews and the Founding of the Republic. New York: Markus Weiner for Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1985.

Schoener, Allon. The American Jewish Album: 1664 to the Present. New York: Rizzoli, 1983.

Stern, Malcolm. First American Jewish Families: 600 Genealogies, 1654-1840. American Jewish Archives and American Jewish Historical Society, 1977.

Newport and Religious Tolerance

Borden, Morton.  Jews, Turks, and Infidels. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

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Washington Letter

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Touro History

Bridenbaugh, Carl.  Peter Harrison, First American Architect. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1949.

Flynn, Sean. “Historic house in Newport going back in the future” Newport Daily News, December 4, 2007.

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Biography

Bingham, Emily. Mordecai: An Early American Family. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.

Feldman, Michael D., ed.  Blessings of Freedom: Chapters in American Jewish History.  New York: KTAV Publishing Company, 2003.

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Marcus, Jacob Rader.  Memoirs of American Jews, 1775-1865. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America. 1955.

Marcus, Jacob Rader. United States Jewry, 1776-1985. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989.

Patt, Ruth Marcus. The History of Sephardim in New Jersey (pamphlet).  New Brunswick: Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey. 1992.

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Schoener, Allon. The American Jewish Album: 1664 to the Present. New York: Rizzoli, 1983.

Stern, Malcolm. First American Jewish Families: 600 Genealogies, 1654-1840. American Jewish Archives and American Jewish Historical Society, 1977.