Modern Jewish History
American Jews and Israel in the Post-War Period
Nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there.
Why Are So Many American Jews Politically Liberal?
The post-war politics of American Jews were shaped more by Jewish experience than Jewish tradition.
Absorbing the Exiles
Israel worked to absorb massive numbers of Jewish immigrants during the 1950s.
The Mass Migration to Israel of the 1950s
Hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Europe and the Arab lands seek a new home in the Jewish state.
The Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat and the PLO from 1964 until the 1993 Oslo Accords.
Jewish History, 1948 to 1980
A narrative of Jewish history between 1948 and 1980, including the foundation of the state of Israel, Jews in the USSR, and suburbanization in the United States.
The Yishuv’s Response to Hitler and the British
How the Jews in Palestine responded to Nazi anti-Semitism and genocide, 1929-1945.