Modern Jewish History:
Jews in America

Reference

• Virtual Jewish History Tour
  • Jewish American Historical Places
  • Synagogues of the USA
• Jews in America: Demographic Profile
• Jewish Population, National (1654-Present)
• Jewish Population, by State (1899-Present)
• U.S. Religious Landscape Study 2014.
• Largest Jewish Communities (2012)
• Jewish American Family

History

• New Amsterdam's Jewish Crusader (1655)
• How Hebrew Came to Yale (1777)
• "To Bigotry, No Sanctions" (1790)
• The Kosher Meat Boycott (1902)
• Brownsville Public School Boycott (1905)
• First American Bat Mitzvah (1922)
• The Kashering of Coca-Cola (1935)
• Jewish “Continuity” in Early America
• Joe Louis and the Jews
• Mark Twain and the Jews

In Government & Politics

• Jewish Supreme Court Justices
• Jewish Members of Congress
• Jews in the Obama Administration
• Jews in the Bush Administration
• Jewish Presidential Voting Record
• Thomas Jefferson & the Jews

In Business & Society

• Prominent Companies Founded by Jews
• Jewish American Gangsters
• Jews in Baseball
• Jews in Football

In the Military

• Jewish Naval Academy Chaplains
• Jewish Recipients of the Medal of Honor
• Statistics on Jewish Soldiers in World War II
• Jewish Veterans of Korean War
• Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War
  • The Hebrew Confederate Cemetery
• Jewish Women in the U.S. Military
• Jewish Veterans Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Creating the U.S. Army Talmud

Religion, Culture & Relations

• Americanization of Reform Judaism
• Reconstructionism
• Black-Jewish Relations
• Jewish Educational Institutes
• Do Jews Celebrate Halloween?
• Do Jews Celebrate Thanksgiving?
• Jewish Marvel Comics Characters

Organization & Affiliation

• Jewish Newspapers
• Jewish Organizations
• Jewish Students Movements
• Baron de Hirsch Fund
• Galveston Plan
• Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
• National Yiddish Book Center
• Palestine Economic Corporation
• Pittsburgh Platform
• Rabbinical Conferences
• Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
• Soviet Jewry Movement
  • Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ)