American Jewish history

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I research disappearing small-town Jewish communities. I’m finding the best of America.

Jews played crucial roles in shaping the civic, cultural and economic landscapes beyond the big cities, writes a historian and writer based in Rochester, New York.

By Austin Reid November 15, 2024 10:30 am

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How scholar Hasia Diner exploded myths and changed the field of Jewish history: A symposium

Seven colleagues pay tribute to the New York University historian, soon to retire, who revealed “entirely new paradigms about the study of the past.”

November 29, 2023 2:00 pm

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10 treasures from the New York Public Library’s 125-year-old Jewish collection

The NYPL’s Dorot Jewish Division celebrates it quasquicentennial.

December 12, 2022 12:46 pm

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What I learned about antisemitism from a remarkable new archive about Jewish Civil War soldiers

By Adam Mendelsohn November 11, 2022 1:04 pm

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How the Gilded Age (the era, not the TV show) created American Jewry

By Andrew Silow-Carroll October 9, 2022 7:00 am

A new book examines the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire — which a contributor worries his father might have started

By Susie Davidson March 22, 2022 10:00 am

The deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire inspires a contemporary composer

By Curt Schleier January 24, 2019 12:40 pm

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In 1934, an American professor urged that Jews be civil — to the Nazis

By Angus Johnston July 2, 2018 4:42 pm

This Jewish lawmaker wanted to keep Chinese immigrants out. Should a park be named after him?

By Joe Eskenazi May 8, 2018 10:53 am

Remembering ‘Aunt Bertie,’ the longest-serving Jewish staffer in White House history

By Steve North April 27, 2018 11:54 am

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American Jewish history

I research disappearing small-town Jewish communities. I’m finding the best of America.

How scholar Hasia Diner exploded myths and changed the field of Jewish history: A symposium

10 treasures from the New York Public Library’s 125-year-old Jewish collection

What I learned about antisemitism from a remarkable new archive about Jewish Civil War soldiers

How the Gilded Age (the era, not the TV show) created American Jewry

A new book examines the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire — which a contributor worries his father might have started

The deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire inspires a contemporary composer

In 1934, an American professor urged that Jews be civil — to the Nazis

This Jewish lawmaker wanted to keep Chinese immigrants out. Should a park be named after him?

Remembering ‘Aunt Bertie,’ the longest-serving Jewish staffer in White House history

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