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Publication Data Paper: Digital Second Edition of Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900(2020-07-02) Esten, EmilyThis dataset, extracted from Robert Singerman’s 1990 publication of Judaica Americana, contains bibliographic data of publications before the year 1900 pertaining to Jewish people, Judaism, and Jewish culture published in the United States, in any language. The data is primarily stored on the research data repository site ScholarlyCommons at the University of Pennsylvania, and it powers an Omeka site of the same name. Reuse potential of the data includes its use as a reference tool for early American Jewish history and history of the book, historical bibliometric data, book trade documentation, and as a support for the extant study of digitization efforts in research libraries. How to Cite: Esten, E., 2020. Digital Second Edition of Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 6(1), p.4. DOI:http://doi.org/10.5334/johd.15Dataset Union List of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Serials Published in the United States(2020-05-01) Esten, EmilyRobert Singerman's Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900 chronicles the decades prior to the twentieth century, a formative era for Jewish institutional development at a time when the Jewish community grew from 1,350 persons in 1790 to 1,050,000 in 1900. Taken as a whole, the bibliography provides extensive documentation of American Jewish communal activity. The Union List of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Serials. Published in the United States lists all known Jewish newspapers, serials, yearbooks, and annual reports in the United States with an inception date prior to 1901, regardless of language, and even if issues of these serials no longer exist, or if the serials were merely projected for publication by their would-be sponsors. Included in this are relevant periodicals with a conversionist or antisemitic focus. This dataset, produced from the docx file of Robert Singerman's bibliography represents 600+ publications. In an effort to make this data available for study, analysis, and reuse, Emily Esten reformatted the data as a CSV. This data is currently available in CSV format. **The fields are as follows**: pid: The Singerman number as assigned in Judaica Americana, or with supp[S000] if part of the supplement asterisk: Rows noted by means of asterisk mean the compiler (Singerman) has not seen all of the monographic items presented in this row under holdings. This is further explained on xvi of Judaica Americana year: Years of active publication (entries marked with a question mark are estimates), separated by pipe. For anything with publications post-1900, listed as post-1900. full_entry: The full entry, as listed in Judaica Americana entry: The bibliographic entry, as listed in Judaica Americana author_editor: Last-Name, First-Name OR Institution OR Company, when known location: Geographic place of publication, written in city, state-abbreviation (ex. Philadelphia, PA) holdings: A list of library symbols separated by pipe. A selected list of library symbols can be found on pages i-iv of Judaica Americana. Those not included are standard ones utilized by the National Union Catalog, maintained by the Library of Congress. title: Title of the publication printer_publisher: First-Name Last-Name OR Institution OR Company, when known notes: Any additional information. A list of abbreviations can be found on pages v-viii of Judaica Americana. index: Any headers included in the index of the print edition of Judaica Americana associated with this pid.Dataset Dataset for Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900(2019-10-01) Esten, EmilyJudaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900, with an estimated total of 9,500 entries, chronicles the decades prior to the twentieth century, a formative era for Jewish institutional development at a time when the Jewish community grew from 1,350 persons in 1790 to 1,050,000 in 1900. Taken as a whole, the bibliography provides extensive documentation of American Jewish communal activity. Equally important for the study of Jewish-Christian relations, hundreds of titles, many of them prophetic and proto-Zionist in nature, are included as relevant primary sources for assessing Christian attitudes on the development, history and testimony of the Jewish religion and the Jewish nation from early times to the close of the nineteenth century. Adventism and millenarian speculation, so pervasive in nineteenth-century America, are well documented in these pages; the same is true of conversionist activity. Creative writing (novels, short stories, dramas, poets) with Jewish themes or characters forms yet another subject emphasis and one that will prove to be exceedingly valuable for any extended study of stereotypes and the negative portrayal of the Jew in literature. For the purposes of this bibliography, annual gift books are approached as monographs. An additional file available below provides additional information, including an explanation of headings. pid: The Singerman number as assigned in Judaica Americana or with supp[0000] if part of the supplement asterisk: Rows noted by means of asterisk mean the compiler (Singerman) has not seen all of the monographic items presented in this row under holdings. This is further explained on xvi of Judaica Americana year: Year of publication (entries marked with a question mark are estimates) entry: The full entry as listed in Judaica Americana author_editor: Last-Name, First-Name OR Institution OR Company, when known location: Geographic location of the printer_publisher, written in city, state-abbreviation (ex. Philadelphia, PA) holdings: A selected list of library symbols can be found on pages i-iv of Judaica Americana. Those not included are standard ones utilized by the National Union Catalog, maintained by the Library of Congress title: Title of the publication printer_publisher: First-Name Last-Name OR Institution OR Company, when known notes: Any additional information. A list of abbreviations can be found on pages v-viii of Judaica AmericanaPublication Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900(2019-10-01) Singerman, RobertJudaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900, with an estimated total of 9,500 entries, chronicles the decades prior to the twentieth century, a formative era for Jewish institutional development at a time when the Jewish community grew from 1,350 persons in 1790 to 1,050,000 in 1900. Taken as a whole, the bibliography provides extensive documentation of American Jewish communal activity. Equally important for the study of Jewish-Christian relations, hundreds of titles, many of them prophetic and proto-Zionist in nature, are included as relevant primary sources for assessing Christian attitudes on the development, history and testimony of the Jewish religion and the Jewish nation from early times to the close of the nineteenth century. Adventism and millenarian speculation, so pervasive in nineteenth-century America, are well documented in these pages; the same is true of conversionist activity. Creative writing (novels, short stories, dramas, poets) with Jewish themes or characters forms yet another subject emphasis and one that will prove to be exceedingly valuable for any extended study of stereotypes and the negative portrayal of the Jew in literature. For the purposes of this bibliography, annual gift books are approached as monographs. This edition is divided into three sections. The first section contains the chronological file of 1890 to 1900. A second section, “Union List of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Serials Published in the United States,” lists all known Jewish newspapers, serials, yearbooks, and annual reports in the United States with an inception date prior to 1901, regardless of language, and even if issues of these serials no longer exist, or if the serials were merely projected for publication by their would-be sponsors. Included in this section are relevant periodicals with a conversionist or antisemitic focus. A third section, a supplement, adds to the first edition of Judaica Americana, expanding the project with additional materials identified by Singerman in the years since the first publication. Judaica Americana has been enlarged by more than 3,000 entries drawn from a broad range of genres, including creative writing, the Wandering Jew theme, foreign literature in translation, stereotype-laden dime novels, foreign travel accounts, city and county histories, American memoirs and biographies, phrenology and racial “science,” urban sociology, children’s literature and school readers, humor books, music scores and songsters, missionary accounts, also prophetic millenarian texts of which there is no shortage. Additional success with identifying Jewish-interest material embedded in sermon collections, federal documents, almanacs, and annual gift books has been made; other researchers are invited to continue probing in these potentially-rich target areas. Areas for further investigation include broadsides, Jewish social clubs, fraternal orders, and benevolent societies, playbills and event programs, penny songs and song collections, state, county, and city documents, also Masonic lodge histories and biography.