American Jewish History

Samuel Elyakim Schwartz.

Tamar Katko
May 14 2025 12:01AM

Like his brother, the great Broadway lyricist wanted to absorb all America had to offer.

Carl Rollyson
May 7 2025 12:01AM

And how America shaped Revolutionary Jewish communities.

Rich Tenorio
April 25 2025 12:01AM

Abolitionism wasn’t welcoming to Jewish sympathizers.

April 16 2025 12:01AM

Massena and the exception to the American exception.

Edward Berenson
April 11 2025 12:01AM

Lessons from a Jewish revolutionary and a Hebrew date.

March 27 2025 12:01AM

Israel and Samuel Goldfarb composed Shalom Aleikhem in 1918.

Matt Austerklein
March 27 2025 12:01AM

“If It Wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews.”

Matt Austerklein
March 18 2025 12:01AM

A Purim-themed poem from the first rabbi of the New World.

Stuart Halpern
March 14 2025 12:01AM

The first president to think of Jews as a political force.

Feb. 18 2025 12:01AM

The remarkable life of Regina Horowitz-Margareten.

Yvette Alt Miller
Feb. 14 2025 12:01AM

“Every other store and street stand is devoted to foodstuffs.”

Jenna Weissman Joselit
Feb. 7 2025 12:01AM

“A refreshing change of pace for the ordinary Yankee ‘meat and potatoes’ diet.”

Hallel Yadin
Feb. 6 2025 12:01AM

An 1896 Yiddish novel’s journey to Hollywood.

Jan. 28 2025 12:01AM