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Local News
Jewish News of Greater Phoenix: A privately-published weekly (1948–).
Arizona Jewish Post: Published biweekly by the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona (1946–).
Arizona Jewish Newspapers: Archived newspapers on the Library of Congress' project Chronicling America.
Books
Rochlin, Harriet, and Fred Rochlin. Pioneer Jews: a New Life in the Far West . Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Marks, Mel. Jews Among the Indians : Tales of Adventure and Conflict in the Old West. Benison Books, 1992.
Chanin, Abraham S. Cholent & Chorizo. Midbar Press, 1995.
Lamb, Blaine Peterson. Jewish Pioneers in Arizona, 1850–1920. Dissertation, Arizona State University, 1982.
Tarshish, Allan, and Sefton D. Temkin. Dawn in the West. University Press of America, 1985.
Diner, Hasia R. The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2004.
Kahn, Ava Fran. Jewish Life in the American West : Perspectives on Migration, Settlement, and Community . Autry Museum of Western Heritage in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2002.
Archival Materials
Arizona Jewish Historical Society
Oral History Project: A resource for understanding how American Jews in the early 20th century pulled up roots, continued a tradition of migration, and became western Jews.
Southwest Jewish Archives, University of Arizona
New Mexico Jewish Historical Society
Arizona Historical Society
- Elizabth Ramenofsky Collection, 1865-1992: Arizona pioneer families of Solomon, Lantin, Lesinsky and Freudenthal. Information on Solomonville, Arizona, Gila Valley Bank, Arizona and southwestern history; the Jewish migration experience to Arizona and the southwest
- Arizona Historical Society Jewish-related archival materials