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If you were going to sum up the post-war American Jewish experience, who would you pick as the age’s great exemplars? The choices would clearly be dizzying. In film there’s everyone from Woody ...
During the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, Roosevelt spoke with the French resident general at Rabat, Morocco, about postwar independence and the Jewish immigrants in North America.
The Jewish community, for example, was slow to respond to violence in Crown Heights, leading some to comment on the uneasiness Jews feel toward their Hasidic "brothers." On the other hand ...
I think that we tend to think of Jews being received as white in America much later ... and I believe that was mostly the case in the North as well, before the Civil War. However, it was ...