Howard M. Sachar

Immigrants from the same towns came together for fun and charity.

America's Communist movement owed a lot to Jewish support.

A particularly prolific, influential group of American-Jewish writers and editors.

The Jewish impact on American intellectual culture.

A renewed influx of Sephardic immigrants around the turn of the 20th century.

A Bavarian influx changed the face of American Jewry in the mid 19th century.

When tolerance became profitable

Court Jews were purveyors who provided food, fodder, and munitions to the European courts in return for special privileges.

The complex political situation in Muslim Spain impacted Jewish social and cultural life there.

How Jews went from protected minority to persona non grata in just a few years.