Jews

Carpenter, Garrett R. "Silkville: A Kansas Attempt in the History of Fourierist Utopias, 1869-1892." Emporia State Research Studies 3 (December 1954): 3-29.

Feld, Lipman Goldman. "New Light on the Lost Jewish Colony of Beersheba, Kansas, 1882-1886." American-Jewish Historical Quarterly 60 (December 1970): 159-168. Beersheba was located in Hodgeman County.

Levinson, Robert E. "American Jews in the West." Western Historical Quarterly 5 (July 1974): 285-294.

Rothman, Hal K. "Building Community: The Jews of Wichita 1860-1900." Kansas Quarterly 25 (no. 2, 1994): 77-86. Formation of Jewish owned businesses and development of a synagogue.

Rothman, Hal K. "Same Horse, New Wagon: Tradition and Assimilation Among Jews of Wichita, 1865-1930." Great Plains Quarterly 15 (Spring 1995): 117-132. Describes the sense of identity for the relatively small numbers of Jews in Wichita.

Rudin, A. James. "Beersheba, Kan.: `God's Pure Air on Government Land'." Kansas Historical Quarterly 34 (Autumn 1968): 282-298. Jewish settlement in southwestern Kansas in the 1880s.

Sapinsley, Elbert L. "Jewish Agricultural Colonies in the West: The Kansas Example." Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly 3 (April 1971): 157-169.

Temple Beth Sholom. The Spirit Unconsumed. Topeka: Compiler, 1979. An 86-page history of Topeka's Jewish community from 1868 to date which utilizes oral interviews, written records, and includes some institutional history.