Modern Jewish Social History

Blazing the wagon trail.

Founder of the Jewish Women's Congress and first president of the National Council of Jewish Women.

So-called Dixie Jews carved out their own unique culture.

Jewish settlement in Minnesota and the Dakotas

The character of American Jewish communities varied from place to place.

The woman who created the American-style Hebrew school demonstrated that one could be fully Jewish and fully American.

Jewish education in America, from colonial times to today

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.

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