Resources

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Miss America, 1945: Bess Myerson and The Year That Changed Our Lives

By Susan Dworkin
Newmarket Press, 1987

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Queen Bess: An Unauthorized Biography of Bess Myerson
By Jennifer Preston
Contemporary Books, Inc, 1990

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When She Was Bad: The Story of Bess, Hortense, Sukhreet & Nancy
By Shana Alexander
Random House, 1990 

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Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II
By John Strausbaugh
Hachette Books, 2019

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Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood
By Margot Mifflin
Counterpoint, 2020

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Accent On Talent: New York’s High School of Music and Art
By Benjamin Steigman
Wayne State University Press, 1964

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Hunter College
By Joan M. Williams
Arcadia Publishing, 2000

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“Here She Comes, Miss America, 1949”
By Lillian Ross
The New Yorker, October 15, 1949

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Archival material from the Anti-Defamation League, including ADL bulletins from 1946 and its 1946 annual report.

 

“The One and Only Jewish Miss America”
Documentary, released September 8, 2020