American Jewish History

A Curtain Factory and Seattle’s Sephardi Legacy

The Kosher Canyon.

Hannah Pressman
March 2 2021 12:01AM

A Shameful Apology for One of America’s Most Shameful Apologists for Communism

Michael Gold, literary hatchet man.

Harvey Klehr
Feb. 18 2021 12:01AM

How Tennis Opened Its Courts to Jews

Diego Schwartzmann and his predecessors.

Rick Marin
Feb. 15 2021 12:01AM

The 17th-Century German Former Minister Whose Illustrations Graced America’s Best-Known Haggadah

From an Amsterdam convert to Maxwell House.

Henry Abramson
Feb. 5 2021 12:01AM

The New Secretary of State and the American Jewish Family Saga

Four generations of Blinkens.

Ruth R. Wisse
Jan. 27 2021 12:01AM

Elvis Presley: Philo-Semite and Jew

A new book threads together a web of connections.

Seth Rogovoy
Jan. 13 2021 12:01AM

Abraham Lincoln’s Chiropodist, Confidant, Jewish Community Liaison, and Back-Channel Diplomat

Issachar Zacharie.

Harold Brackman
Jan. 7 2021 12:01AM

When Jewish Women Took to the Streets for Affordable Kosher Meat

The riot that stopped for Shabbat.

Scott Seligman
Jan. 4 2021 12:01AM

Herman Mankiewicz, the Great Scriptwriter of Hollywood’s (Jewish) Golden Age

Mank.

Jesse Tisch
Dec. 7 2020 12:01AM

A Jewish Prayer for Thanksgiving

“We pray sincerely for America and the ideals of democracy and freedom that are here enshrined.”

Joseph Lookstein
Nov. 27 2020 12:01AM

Jewish Ideas in Plymouth Colony

The faith of America’s Pilgrim ancestors was deepened by Jewish texts, while their acts of gratitude were conscious reenactments of the Jewish past.

Daniel Slate
Nov. 25 2020 12:01AM

Cole Porter’s “Jewish Tunes”

A consummate WASP among Broadway’s Jews.

Terry Teachout
Nov. 20 2020 12:01AM

Thomas Jefferson’s Jewish Descendants

An investigation into Virginia history.

James Loeffler
Nov. 19 2020 12:01AM

The Black Cantors of Harlem

The music of Thomas LaRue.

Renee Ghert-Zand
Nov. 5 2020 12:01AM
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