Rebecca Gratz – Further Reading

Bibliography

Ashton, Dianne. Rebecca Gratz: Women’s Judaism in Antebellum America. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. 

Ashton, Dianne. “Souls Have No Sex: Philadelphia Jewish Women and the American Challenge.” In When Philadelphia Was the Capital of Jewish America, edited by Murray Friedman, 93–112. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. 

Beerman, Leonard I. “An Analysis of the Foremost Jewess of the Nineteenth Century as Reflected in Hitherto Unpublished Source Materials.” Ord. thesis, Hebrew Union College, 1949. 

Bodek, Evelyn. “Making Do: Jewish Women and Philanthropy.” In Jewish Life in Philadelphia, 1830–1940, edited by Murray Friedman, 143–162. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983. 

Braude, Ann. “The Jewish Woman’s Encounter with American Culture.” In Women and Religion in America, Vol. 1, edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Skinner Keller, 150–192. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981. 

Byars, William V., ed. B. and M. Gratz, Merchants in Philadelphia, 1754–1798: Papers of Interest to Their Posterity and the Posterity of Their Associates. St. Louis: H. Stephens Printing Company, 1916. 

Cohen, Mary M. An Old Philadelphia Cemetery: The Resting Place of Rebecca Gratz. Philadelphia: City History Society of Philadelphia, 1920. 

Jacobs, Joseph. “The Original of Scott’s Rebecca.” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 22 (1914): 53–60. 

Mordecai, Sarah. Recollections of My Aunt, Rebecca Gratz. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1893. 

Osterweiss, Rollin G. Rebecca Gratz: A Study in Charm. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1935. 

Philipson, David, ed. The Letters of Rebecca Gratz. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1929. 

Rosenbloom, Joseph. “And She Had Compassion: The Life and Times of Rebecca Gratz.” PhD diss., Hebrew Union College, 1957. 

——. “Rebecca Gratz and the Jewish Sunday School Movement in Philadelphia.” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 47, no. 2 (1958): 71–75. 

——. “Some Conclusions About Rebecca Gratz.” In Essays in American Jewish History, 195–210. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1958. 

Van Renssalaer, Gratz. “The Original of Rebecca in Ivanhoe.” Century Magazine, September 1882.