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Tensions and schism's in one of America's first large Jewish communities

After World War II, American Jews left the cities for the burgeoning suburbs.

Brandeis rose quickly to academic excellence, but the nature of its Jewish character remains ambiguous.

A compilation of aggadic (narrative) and halachic (legal) midrash

An immigrant's memoir of trying to jump on the Jewish-peddler bandwagon

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

The Jewish impact on American intellectual culture.

Indispensable partners for doing life's sacred work

Twenty-three refugees from Brazil established the first Jewish community in the future U.S.

The havurah movement and The Jewish Catalog blended Judaism with the 1960s counterculture.

"Freedom to observe, freedom to neglect," in the words of one 19th-century rabbi

In America around the turn of the 20th century, Jews had the freedom to not observe religion and rabbis were scarce.