American Jewish history

Ideas

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.

Ideas

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.”

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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.

Ideas

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

Ideas

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

United States

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

Culture

The deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire inspires a contemporary composer

Ideas

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

United States

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

Politics

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

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