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American Jewish History

The First American Jewish Novel of Consequence, and the Woman Who Wrote It

Cora Wilburn’s Cosella Wayne.

Jonathan Sarna
Jan. 21 2020 12:01AM

The Jewish and African American Team That Revolutionized Basketball

The City Game.

Rich Cohen
Jan. 20 2020 12:01AM

How Judaism Came to the American Military

The Star of David men.

Allan Arkush
Jan. 7 2020 12:01AM

Celebrating Hanukkah, American Style

At times of war, especially, it was always a patriotic holiday.

David Geffen
Dec. 23 2019 12:01AM

How Cowardice and Anti-Semitism Stopped One of the Earliest Anti-Nazi Films from Getting Made

The Mad Dog of Europe.

Sydney Ladensohn Stern
Dec. 5 2019 12:01AM

Over a Century after Its Founding, New York’s Show-Business Synagogue Remains Open

Where the Three Stooges, Sandy Koufax, and Ed Sullivan all prayed.

Josefin Dolsten
Nov. 18 2019 12:01AM

The American Romance with the Jews, from Cotton Mather to Emma Lazarus

“I shall make you a great nation.”

Michael Medved
Oct. 24 2019 12:01AM

When a Mexican Revolutionary Invaded the U.S., Possibly in Search of a Jewish Shopkeeper

Sam Ravel and Pancho Villa.

Stacey Ravel Abarbanel
Oct. 10 2019 12:01AM

A Rare Portrait of Yom Kippur in Germany from America’s First Female Jewish Novelist

Cosella Wayne.

Cora Wilburn
Oct. 7 2019 12:01AM

The Hollywood Mogul Who Founded Universal Studios and Rescued Jews from Hitler’s Germany

Carl Laemmle.

Rafael Medoff and Sandy Einstein
Sept. 26 2019 12:01AM

Joachim Gans, One of North America’s First Jews—and Perhaps Its First Scientist

The metallurgist of Roanoke.

Andrew Lawler
Sept. 25 2019 12:01AM

The Fake Jews of Prohibition, and Their Fake Rabbis

A religious exemption for sacramental wine encouraged Gentile “rabbis” to organize “congregations.”

Alice Kassens
Sept. 4 2019 12:01AM

Remembering the 1929 Hebron Massacre, and a Tennessean Jew Who Was among the Dead

The letters of Aharon Dovid Shainberg.

Akiva Males
Aug. 23 2019 12:01AM

From Child of Jewish Immigrants to Fellow Traveler to Millionaire to Soviet Spy

How to succeed in espionage without really trying.

Fred Siegel
Aug. 22 2019 12:01AM
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