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Immigration
Destination:
New World
Columbus and the Jews
Three
Waves
An overview of the different categories of American-Jewish
immigrants
First
Jews
Jews arrive in the future U.S. in 1654.
Bavarian
Influx
German immigrants change the face of American Jewry.
Migration
From Eastern Europe
The face of American Judaism changes.
First
Stop
A short history of Ellis Island
Jewish
Plymouth Rock
The Lower East Side in Jewish memory
Second
Sephardic Wave
Jews arrive from the Ottoman Empire.
The
Wonders of America
An immigrant's memoir of her first impressions
Integration & Intergroup Relations
Freedom:
Promise & Challenge
The unprecedented situation of American Jewry
Acceptance
in America
The Constitution, George Washington, and the Jews
Charleston
Jews
One of America's first large
Jewish communities
Jewish New York
Challenges and triumphs since Jews landed in New Amsterdam
Gen.
Grant's Infamy
The Civil War hero expelled Jews from three states.
Leo
Frank Lynching
An anti-Semitic incident in Georgia
American
Jewish Committee
The first American-Jewish organization fighting hate
Landsmanshaftn
Groups of Jews from the same European towns
Brother,
Where Art Thou?
The American interfaith movement
Jews
& American Pluralism
A golden age when Jews got "insider" status
Civil
Rights & Wrongs
Black-Jewish relations
Between
the World Wars
Jewish immigrants Americanize.
Responding
to the Holocaust
The U.S. government and the American Jewish community
American
Jewry, 1948-80
A focus on Los Angeles
American
Midrash
The contradictions of being American-Jewish
Rights
& Responsibilities
Jewish values, American values
Politics
Socialism
American-Jewish politics with Russian roots
The
1909 Great Revolt
The International Ladies Garment Worker's Union strikes
The
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
A 1911 tragedy
Radicalized
Jews
Jews & the Communist movement
"The
Crime of the Century"
The Rosenberg case
Grounding
Liberalism in History
American Jews & liberal politics
Extending
America's Freedoms
Jews and the Civil Rights movement
Religion
Freedom
Not to Observe
Religious life in the late 1800s, early 1900s
Counterculture
Judaism
The havurah movement & Jewish catalog of the
1960s and '70s
American
Orthodoxy, Part 1
From colonial times to World War II
American
Orthodoxy, Part 2
Since World War II
Reform
Judaism
Born in Europe, grew in U.S.
The
Conservative Movement
Founded in Europe, flourished in the U.S.
Reconstructionist
Judaism
The fourth dimension
American
Synagogue Sisterhoods
Women serving congregation,
denomination, American, and World Jewry
American-Jewish
Feminism
Origins of a movement that would affect all denominations
American
Feminism Matures
Moving beyond "equal
access"
Resources
Links:
American Jewish History
Recommended websites on American Jewish history
Discussion:
History & Community
A place to share your thoughts on Jews in America, yesterday
and today
Discussion:
Culture
A place to share your thoughts on American Jewish culture
and the arts
Document:
Pittsburgh Platform (1885)
A key document of Reform Judaism
"In
the Jewish Synagogue at Newport"
A poem by Emma Lazarus
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Culture
Projecting
America
Jews, Hollywood, and popular
culture, 1930-1950
Jewish
Getaways
The Catskills & Jewish vacationers
A
Woman--and a Jew
An immigrant's memoir of intergenerational conflict
Playing
to Americanize
Athletes and athletics among American Jews
The
Yiddish Press
A once thriving industry
Yiddish
Theater
A cultural phenomenon
American
Zionism
The movement finds its voice.
To
the 'Burbs!
Jews flee American cities for burgeoning suburbs
Hanukkah,
American Style
How the holiday changed
Nice
to Visit, Wouldn't Want to Move
American Jews and Israel in the post-war period
A
Snapshot of American Jewry
The National Jewish Population Study of 2000-01
Jewish
Humor in America
The Borsht Belt, Broadway, and beyond
Wizards
of Wit
A seven-part series on Jewish-American comedy
Jokes
of the 1950s-60s
Some greatest hits of that era
Jokes
of the 1990s
Some greatest hits of that decade
Literature
Jewish-American
Literature
An overview
Immigrant
Literature
Yiddish speakers take up English writing.
Into
the Literary Mainstream
Connecting with Americans by writing about alienation
Jewish
American Literature Today
Being Jewish is as natural as
breathing, sleeping, and sex.
Jewish
American Poetry
Is there something uniquely Jewish about it?
Next-Generation
Novelists
Up and coming Jewish-American writers
Music
Jewish
American Music
An overview
Creating
the American Musical
The Jewish contribution to Broadway
Who
Knew It's By a Jew?
Songs by American Jews
A
Blast From the Past
Klezmer finds new life in America
Rock
& Roll Jews
Jewish contributions to rock music
Film & Television
Hollywood
& Judaism
A historical look at Jews and Judaism on screen
Judaism
Through Hollywood's Lens
Filmmakers seem comfortable with Judaism--even when they distort it.
The
Jazz Singer
The first "talkie" centered on a cantor's son
The
Multiplex as Temple
Jewish film festivals
Torah
From Simpsons
Krusty the Clown & other Jews on the popular sitcom
Head
of the Humor Class
Can Jewish comedy survive 21st-century America?
Occupations
Needling
Capitalism
Unionizing American workers
Peddlers
& Frontier Judaism
The market revolution takes Jews to the farthest reaches
of the frontier.
Blazing
the Wagon Trail
Pioneering Jewish women of the early American West
A
Failed Peddler
An immigrant's memoir of trying to make it in America
Jews
Gone Bad
Gangsters, organized crime, and American Jews
Education & Intellectual Life
Jewish
Schooling
Educating Jews in America
Judaism
& Fresh Air
Summer camps helped teach kids Judaism and Americanism
Brandeis
University
The nonsectarian Jewish college
Smart
Jews
The Jewish contribution to American intellectual life
The
New York Intellectuals
An influential group of writers and editors
Personalities
Isaac
Mayer Wise
The architect of American Reform Judaism
Rebecca
Gratz
Pioneer in American-Jewish education and charitable works
Mordecai
Kaplan
Founder of Reconstructionist Judaism
Philip
Roth
Jewish-American fiction's
favorite troublemaker
Abraham
Cahan
Forward founder and novelist
Anzia
Yezierska
Novelist of Jewish immigrants
Emma
Goldman
Anarchist and activist
Cynthia
Ozick
Novelist and essayist
Saul
Bellow
Nobel-laureate novelist
Hank
Greenberg
Jewish baseball superstar
Leonard
Bernstein
American-Jewish maestro
Bob
Dylan
The freewheelin' Robert Zimmerman
Debbie
Friedman
Singing unto God
Molly
Picon
Star of Yiddish stage and screen
Mel
Brooks
Funny because he's Jewish
Woody
Allen
The Schlemiel as modern philosopher
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