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J-Cycle 10 (2021) Resources

Looking for more information on J-Cycle 10's automotive-themed stops?

Meyer & Anna Prentis Building

• Barbara Lewis, "The Legacy of Meyer L. Prentis," Michigan Jewish History 53 (2013): 4-13.

Boston Edison

• Historic Boston Edison

• "Significant Residents of the Boston-Edison Historic District"

• Neil Baldwin, Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate (2001)

Ford Piquette Avenue Plant

• Ford Piquette Avenue Plant

• Steven Watts, The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (2005)

Beth Olem Cemetery

• Milton Marwil, "The True Story of the Cemetery in the General Motors Parking Lot," Michigan Jewish History 33 (1992): 30-2

• Beth Olem Cemetery website: https://www.cloverhillpark.org/beth-olam-cemetery

Eastern Market

• Randall Fogelman and Lisa E. Rush, Detroit’s Historic Eastern Market (2013)

• Diane Pomish, “Detroit’s Food Distribution Markets: Eastern Market, Gratiot Central Market and the Jewish Families Who Helped Shape These Centers of Commerce,” Michigan Jewish History 45 (2005): 3-14.

• “Best Place to Practice Aerial in Eastern Market: Detroit Flyhouse Circus School,” Detroit Metro Times, September 29, 2015

• Stephanie Steinberg, “New Murals Light up Eastern Market,” Detroit News, September 23, 2016

J-Cycle 8 (2018) Interactive Map

Unable to attend our wildly popular bicycle tour of Jewish Detroit? Our route below gives you a taste of what you missed. This map is made possible by a grant from MotorCities National Heritage Area. We appreciate their support!

Looking for Some Good Reading Material on Jews in Michigan?

• American Jewish History, Journal of the American Jewish Historical Society. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

• Applebaum, Phillip. The Wetsmans: Odyssey of an American Family. William Morse Davidson, 1994.

• Berman, Lila Corwin.  Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

• Bolkosky, Sidney. Harmony and Dissonance, Voices of Jewish Identity in Detroit, 1914-1967. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.

• Cantor, Judith Levin. Jews in Michigan. (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan). East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001.

• Cohen, Irwin. Jewish Detroit: A Pictorial History. Arcadia Press, 2002.

• Demetriou, Karen Kritz, & Fran Rubin Weinstein. Temple B’nai Israel, 100 Years: Saginaw, Michigan, 1890-1990. Saginaw: Golden Jubilee, 1942.

• Devlin, Dennis S. Muskegon’s Jewish Community: A Centennial History, 1888-1988. Muskegon: Dana Corp., 1988.

• Edgar, Dr. Irving I. A History of Early Jewish Physicians in the State of Michigan. New York: Philosophical Library, 1982.

• Friedlander, Alex.  From Suwalki to St. Ignace: A History of the Rosenthal, Reinhertz, Blumrosen, Winkelman, and Related Families.  Brooklyn, NY: Breakaway Productions, 2003.

• Grad, Eli, and Bette Roth. Congregation Shaarey Zedek, 5622-5742, 1861-1981. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982.

• Katz, Irving I., and Dr. Jacob Marcus. The Beth El Story. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1955.

• Kraus, Bea. A Time to Remember: A History of the Jewish Community in South Haven. Allegan Forest, MI: The Priscilla Press, 1999.
(Available at First Hebrew Congregation, 263 Broadway, South Haven, MI 49090)

• Michigan History, Journal of the Historical Society of Michigan. 1305 Abbott Rd., Lansing, MI 48823.

• Michigan Jewish History, JHSM's annual journal. West Bloomfield, MI.
Contact us to find out how you can receive a copy of the current issue.  Browse our online archive of past issues.

• Rockaway, Robert. The Jews of Detroit, From the Beginning, 1762-1914. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1986.

• Slobin, Dan. From the Pale of Settlement to Michigan: Stories of My Grandparents and Their Families.  Berkeley: Dan I. Slobin, 2016, 2021.

Links to some digitized content provided by our friends at the Center for Jewish History.