History of the Pale of Settlement from 1844 until its abolishment in 1917.

An autobiography of Chaim/"Hayyim" Aronson (1825-1893), covering the years (1825-1888). He was born in Lithuania. He married three times. By 1887, four of his five sons had immigrated to New York. His autobiography ceased in 1888. He immigrated from St. Petersburg, Russia some time soon after that, because he died in New York.

Charles Zachariah Goldberg left Bialystok in 1906 at the age of 17 in the aftermath of a dealy pogrom in Bialystok, then a part of Czarist Russia. Published later in life, living in Connecticut, these are his remembrances and stories about growing up in Bialystok,and of his journey to America. Originally written in Yiddish for publications in the New York City area in the 1930s and 1940s.