American Jewish history

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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.”

By Sandra Fox and David S. Koffman and Rachel Kranson 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

The war made Americans out of its Jewish soldiers, but left an enduring legacy of anti-Jewish slanders, writes a historian of the era.

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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What really happened at the original Trefa Banquet

By Jonathan D. Sarna January 16, 2018 12:37 pm

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