Modern Jewish History:
Jews in America

Reference

• American Jewish Family
• American Jewish Newspapers and Periodicals
• Black-Jewish Relations in the United States
• Latino-Jewish Relations
• The History of Jewish Giving in America
• How Hebrew Came to Yale
• Joe Louis and the Jews
• The Kashering of Coca-Cola
• The Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902
• Thanksgiving and the Jews
• Mark Twain and the Jews

Statistics

• Jewish Population, National (1654-Present)
• Jewish Population, by State (1899-Present)
• Largest Jewish Communities (2012)

Places

• Jewish American Historical Places
• The Virtual Jewish History Tour - The United States
• Synagogues of the World - United States

People

• American Jewish Women
• Eighteen Jewish Recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor
• Famous American Songs by Jewish Composers
• Joachim Gaunse
• Jewish Women in the Military
• Jews Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Jews in Sports
• Antony Wolfe
• Louis Brandeis
• Lazarus Averbuch
• Asser Levy
• Jewish Gangsters
• Jewish Supreme Court Justices
• Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn

Jews in Culture & Society

Sports

• Jews in Sports

Business

• Prominent U.S. Companies Founded by Jews

Arts

• Yiddish Theater in America

Military

• Jewish Women in the Military
• American Jews Serve in World War II
• Statistics on American Jews in World War II
• Jews Who Served in the Korean War
• Jewish Soldiers During the Civil War

Politics

• American Jews and Politics
• Benjamin Becomes First Jew in Cabinet

Political Association

• American Jews and Politics
• Benjamin Becomes First Jew in Cabinet
• General Grant's Infamy
• Jefferson and the Jews
• Bush On Celebrating 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
• Letter to Abraham Lincoln from the Father of a Shomer Shabbat Soldier
• President Bush Declares Jewish Heritage Week (4/24/04)
• Presidential Proclamation of Jewish American Heritage Month (5/12/09)

Religion

• The Americanization of Reform Judaism
• The Brownsville Public School Boycott
• Creating the U.S. Army Talmud
• The First American Bat Mitzvah
• Jewish Education
• Religious Affiliation in the United States

Relations with Israel

• American Jewish Contributions to Israel [Table]
• The Israel Lobby

Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress

• Artscroll
• The Author of the Declaration and the Architect of the Constitution
• “Father Abraham [Lincoln]” and the Children of Israel
• From Haven to Home
• From the Lands of the Czars
• From Sea to Shining Sea
• The Father of His Country
• Four Founders: Noah, Leeser, Wise, and Lazarus
• Nineteenth-Century American Poets
• George Washington’s Letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island

Immigration & Organization

• American Jewish Organizations
• Baron de Hirsch Fund
• The Hebrew Confederate Cemetery
• The History of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
• The History of the Philadelphia Jewish Federation
• Jewish “Continuity” in Early America
• Galveston Plan
• Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
• National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine
• National Yiddish Book Center
• Palestine Economic Corporation
• Pittsburgh Platform
• Rabbinical Conferences
• Reconstructionism
• Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
• Students’ Movements, Jewish
• Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ)