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CultureJews, The Catskills & Jewish vacationers An immigrant’s memoir of intergenerational conflict Athletes and athletics among American Jews A once thriving industry A cultural phenomenon The movement finds its voice Jews flee American cities for burgeoning suburbs How the holiday changed Nice to Visit, Wouldn’t Want to Move American Jews and The National Jewish Population Study of 2000-01 The Borsht Belt, Broadway, and beyond A seven-part series on Jewish-American comedy Some greatest hits of that era Some greatest hits of that decade
ImmigrationDestination: New World Three Waves First Jews Bavarian Influx Migration From Eastern Europe First Stop Jewish Plymouth Rock Second Sephardic Wave The Wonders of America
Integration & Intergroup RelationsFreedom: Promise & Challenge Acceptance in America Charleston Jews Jewish New York Gen. Grant’s Infamy Leo Frank Lynching American Jewish Committee Landsmanshaftn Brother, Where Art Thou? Jews & American Pluralism Civil Rights & Wrongs Between the World Wars Responding to the Holocaust American Jewry, 1948-80 American Midrash Rights & Responsibilities
PoliticsSocialism The 1909 Great Revolt The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Radicalized Jews "The Crime of the Century" Grounding Liberalism in History Extending America’s Freedoms
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LiteratureAn overview Yiddish speakers take up English writing Connecting with Americans by writing about alienation Jewish American Literature Today A new crop of writers Is there something uniquely Jewish about it? Up and coming Jewish-American writers
MusicJewish American Music Creating the American Musical Who Knew It’s By a Jew? A Blast From the Past Rock & Roll Jews
Film & TelevisionHollywood & Judaism Judaism Through Hollywood’s Lens The Jazz Singer The Multiplex as Temple Torah From Simpsons Head of the Humor Class
OccupationsNeedling Capitalism Peddlers & Frontier Judaism Blazing the Wagon Trail A Failed Peddler Jews Gone Bad
Education & Intellectual LifeJewish Schooling Judaism & Fresh Air Brandeis University Smart Jews The New York Intellectuals
PersonalitiesIsaac Mayer Wise Rebecca Gratz Mordecai Kaplan Philip Roth Abraham Cahan Anzia Yezierska Emma Goldman Cynthia Ozick Saul Bellow Hank Greenberg Leonard Bernstein Bob Dylan Debbie Friedman Molly Picon Mel Brooks Woody Allen ReligionFreedom Not to Observe Counterculture Judaism American Orthodoxy, Part 1 American Orthodoxy, Part 2 Reform Judaism The Conservative Movement Reconstructionist Judaism American Synagogue Sisterhoods American-Jewish Feminism American Feminism Matures
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Sephardic
Pronounced: seh-FAR-dik, Origin: Hebrew, describing Jews descending from the Jews of Spain.