BOOKS AND DISSERTATIONS
Berrol, Selma Cantor. Getting Down to Business: Baruch College in the City of
New York, 1847-1987.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Between The Wars: The Bronx Express, A Portrait of the Jewish Bronx. Bronx:
Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1986.
Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York . New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
Channing, Carol. Just Lucky I Guess: A Memoir of Sorts . New York: Simon and
Schuster, 2002.
Dicristo, Rosemary. The Old Neighborhood: A History of Crotona Park . Ph.D. dissertation. Fordham University, 1985.
Dinnerstein, Leonard. America and the Survivors of the Holocaust.
New York:
Columbia University Press, 1982.
Elkin, Judith Laikin . The Jews of Latin America . New York: Holmes & Meier,
1998.
Feldman, Miguel. Tiempos Dificiles: Immigrantes Judios en Uruguay, 1933-1945.
Montevideo: Universidad de la Republica, 2001.
Goulden, Joseph C. The Best Years, 1945-1950 New York: Atheneum, 1976.
Hermalyn, Gary. Morris High School and the Creation of the New York City
Public School System. Bronx: Bronx Historical Society, 1995.
Horowitz, Murray M. Brooklyn College: The First Half-Century.
New York:
Brooklyn College Press, 1981.
Jonnes, Jill.
“We’re Still Here”: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of the South
Bronx . Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.
Keegan, John. The Second World War.
New York: Viking Penguin, 1990.
Kennedy, David M. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 . New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Kobrin, Rebecca. Conflicting Diasporas, Shifting Center: Migration and Identity in a Transnational Polish Jewish Community, 1878-1952.
Ph.D. dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
Liberation 1945 . Washington, D.C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
1995.
Lingeman, Richard.
Don’t You Know There’s A War On?: The American Home
Front 1941-1945.
New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2003.
Lipstadt, Deborah E. Beyond Belief: Then American Press and the Coming of the
Holocaust, 1933-1945.
New York: Free Press, 1986.
Metzger, Isaac. A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971.
Moore, Deborah Dash. At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
Official Guidebook of the New York World’s Fair
. New York: Exposition
Publications,1939.

Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 . New
York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Porzecanski, Teresa, editor. Historias de la Vidas Privada en el Uruguay .
Montevideo: Taurus, 1996.
Reiman, Richard A. The New Deal and American Youth: Ideas and Ideals in a
Depression Decade . Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
Salmaggi, Cesare. 2194 Days of War: An Illustrated Chronology of the Second
World War . New York: Gallery Books, 1988.
Shmulevitz, I. Bialystoker Memorial Book . New York: Bialystoker Center, 1982.
Slobin, Mark.
Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants .
Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1982.
Sohn, David. Bialystok: Photo Album of a Renowned City and Its Jews the World
Over . New York: Bialystoker Album Committee, 1951.
---------------. The Activities of the Bialystoker Community in America . New York:
Bialystoker Center, 1934.
Tyler, Don. Hit Parade 1920-1955: An Encyclopedia of the Top Songs of the Jazz,
Depression, Swing, and Sing Eras . New York: William Morrow, 1985.
Weiner, Miriam. Jewish Roots In Poland: Pages From The Past And Archival
Inventories.
New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1997.
Wenger, Beth. New York Jews and the Great Depression . New Haven, Ct.: Yale
University Press, 1996.
Wurts, Richard, et. al.
The New York World’s Fair 1939/1940
. New York: Dover
Publications, 1977.
JOURNAL AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Apteker, Rose, and Sylvia Belson. “A Survey of Shoe Manufacturing in New
York City.” New York State Department of Labor. July 1947.
“Constructing History Through Art: Nelson Rockefeller and Diego Rivera.” http:// fsweb.wm.edu/amst370/2001/sp4/rockefellerandhistory .html
“Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.” http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships.
Eisenstein, Rosalind Wax. “Looking Back At Teaching.” Bronx County Historical
Society Journal. Vol. 23, No. 2, Fall 1995.
Lattimer, Mary. “Survey of Shoe Industry in Brooklyn.” New York State
Employment Bureau. November 1918.
Lipner, Irv. “The Coops: More Than A Reunion.” Jewish Currents. February
1995.
Lukar, Harvey. “The History of Indian Lake-Crotona Park.” Privately published, undated.
Mead, Edna. “The Bronx Division City Patrol Corps.” Bronx County Historical
Society Journal. Vol. 15, No. 1. Spring 1978.
Packer, Kathleen. “I Remember the Great Depression.” Bronx County Historical
Society Journal. Vol 19, No. 2, Fall 1992.
Postal, Bernard. “A Short History of Jews in the Bronx.” Bronx County Historical
Society Journal. January 1965.

Rosen, Ira. “The Glory That Was Charlotte Street.” New York Times Magazine.
October 7, 1979.
Scherer, Stuart M. Edward J. Flynn: “The Evolution of a Political Boss.” Bronx
County Historical Society Journal. Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1966.
Speiser, Milton. “A Survey of Shoe Manufacturing in New York City.” War
Manpower Commission, New York, N.Y. June 1945.
Swerdlow, Amy “rowing Up Red.” Unpublished manuscript.
“The History of the New York College of Podiatric Medicine.” http://www.nycpm.edu/history.html
NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS CONSULTED
Back to the Bronx
Bialystoker Stimme
Bronx Home News
Bronxboro (Bronx Board of Trade)
Bronx Chronicle (Bronx County Democratic Committee)
Daily News (New York, N.Y.)
Forverts (New York, N.Y.)
Howdy!
(Burndy Engineering Company)
Justice (International Ladies Garment Workers Union)
Lexicon (Yearbook of City College School of Business Administration)
LIFE
Look
New York Herald Tribune
New York Post
New York Times
PM (New York, N.Y.)
Podium (Yearbook of New York College of Podiatric Medicine)
Saturday Evening Post
Ticker (Student newspaper of City College School of Business Administration)
MAJOR INTERVIEWS
Ash, Peter
Becker, Leon
Berlinblau, Dina
Betstadt, Lillian (Golden)
Beyman, Miriam
Binenstock, Shirley
Blumert, Joseph
Bronstein, Rebeca and Guillermo
Caron, Henry
Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara
Connor, Marie
Dunetz, Bernie and Anita

Edelstein, Saul
Feldman, Miguel
Fleischman, Bea
Freedman. David
Fried, Vicky (Behar)
Friedlander, Rudy
Friedman, George
Glass, Murray
Goodman, Melvin
Greco, Selma
Gropper, Howard
Hatkin, Seymour
Hatkin, Thelma
Hershey, Paul
Kagan, Irving
Kaplan, Leimel
Karmkon, Elias
Keltz, Hy
Kylar, Estelle (Pacter)
Manners, Ruth (Klekman)
Lacadie, Harold
Laitman, Morris
Lempert, Joseph
Liebowitz, Ruth
Maidens, Marion (Herzog)
Millon, Ted
Minsky, Norman
Osder, Stephen
Pacter, Bernie
Pacter, Sam
Porzecanski, Teresa
Povodator, Fannie
Prusky, Dov
Rashbaum, Buddy
Reeves, Clare (Abramowitz)
Robinson, Miriam
Rosenhoch, Bill and Naomi
Rybka, Bluma
Schwimmer, Alden
Shopnick, Milton
Solomon, Bernie
Stein, Helen
Steinglass, Joe
Stevens, Fannie (Hatkin) and Danny (Schlomkowitz)
Stoller, Murray
Taylor, Marcia

Wachtenheim, Hilda (Saltzman)