American Jewish history

Ideas

He wrote the book on American Jewish history. Stepping back from teaching, Jonathan Sarna says he has plenty of chapters still to go.

Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap.

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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New York

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

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?

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