Books:

We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945 – 1962 (New York: New York University Press, 2009)

From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Age, with Elliott Barkan and Alan Kraut (New York University Press, 2007)

The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 (Berkeley,CA:University of California Press, 2004)

Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 2002)

Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present (with Beryl Lieff Benderly) (New York: Basic Books, 2002)

Remembering the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections, with Jeffrey Shandler and Beth S. Wenger (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000)

The Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America. (Princeton:Princeton University Press, 2000.)

American Jews (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).(Part of a series for young readers) -Reissued, 2003, as A New Promised Land: A History of the Jews in America.

In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks. 1915-1935 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995; reissue of 1977 edition)

A Time for Gathering. 1820-1880: The Second Migration, Vol. 2 in, The Jewish People in America, Henry B’eingold, ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)

Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,1984)

Articles:

“Buying and Selling ‘Jewish’: The Historical Impact of Commerce on Jewish Communal Life,” Imagining in the Jewish American Community, Jack Wertheimer, ed. (Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2007). pp. 28-44.