American Jewish History
Samuel Elyakim Schwartz.
Like his brother, the great Broadway lyricist wanted to absorb all America had to offer.
And how America shaped Revolutionary Jewish communities.
Abolitionism wasn’t welcoming to Jewish sympathizers.
Massena and the exception to the American exception.
Lessons from a Jewish revolutionary and a Hebrew date.
Israel and Samuel Goldfarb composed Shalom Aleikhem in 1918.
“If It Wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews.”
A Purim-themed poem from the first rabbi of the New World.
The first president to think of Jews as a political force.
The remarkable life of Regina Horowitz-Margareten.
“Every other store and street stand is devoted to foodstuffs.”
“A refreshing change of pace for the ordinary Yankee ‘meat and potatoes’ diet.”
An 1896 Yiddish novel’s journey to Hollywood.