- Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)
- Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration
- The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 (Jewish Communities in the Modern World)
- Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America
- Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present