For many people, Jewish American history is synonymous with northern cities like New York and Chicago. But the South played an important role, especially in the early 1800s.
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Zionism’s definition may seem simple, but it’s been debated for more than a century. In reality, there are multiple ‘Zionisms,’ not just one.
Many Americans associate Yiddish strictly with Eastern Europe. But its horizons are much broader than that, especially amid today’s revival.
Topics such as sexual assault have been difficult for survivors and historians to write about, even decades after the war.
Denying Jewish men’s masculinity, or blaming them for weakening ‘traditional’ masculinity, has long been part of antisemitism.
Laws put in place after the war aimed to return stolen belongings and offer war damages to victims. In reality, many Jewish families faced lengthy waits and legal hurdles.
For some Sephardic Jews today, holidays provide a rare opportunity to hear the now-endangered Judeo-Spanish language.
Couples in interfaith marriages came under intense pressure in Nazi Germany. But women’s protests in February 1943 may have helped save their husbands.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s timely to reflect on how the liberation of the camps was reported at the time – and how it changed journalism.
Some women adopted non-Jewish identities to support the resistance. For most, though, it was simply a strategy for survival – one with constant risk of exposure and execution.
Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that past.
What do you do on Dec. 25 if you don’t celebrate Christmas? For Jewish Americans, the answers range from takeout to filling a shift for Christian colleagues.
The artist’s incredible skill once helped the painting to serve as a life-saving disguise.
Not all early 20th century Jewish immigrants to South Africa were commercially successful.
The memoir of Nathaniel Isaacs, a Jewish merchant who found himself shipwrecked in what is now South Africa, influenced Shaka’s long-lasting fame abroad.
Manchester Jewry has maintained an extraordinarily strong local identity, but is notable in its diversity.
How on earth did someone of German-Jewish origin manage to integrate himself into the close-knit smuggling fraternity of Sussex?
Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world.
Philadelphia was the birthplace of Bread and Freedom, a weekly anarchist paper published by Jewish immigrants who felt their peers in New York were too moderate.
Ararat, a settlement dreamed up in the 1800s, was meant to offer a refuge to Jews. But after an ornate ceremony, plans never got off the ground.
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James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton
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Director of the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver
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Professor of German, Aberystwyth University
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Senior Faculty, Hartman Institute and Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
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Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston
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Emanuel Ringelblum Professor in Jewish History, University of California, Davis
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Professor, Department of Global Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University
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Professor of Sociology, Rowan University
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Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies and Chair of the Sephardic Studies Program, University of Washington
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Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, University of Essex
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Emeritus Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Kingston University
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Associate Professor in Modern European History, University of Leicester
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Professor of Art History, California State University, Chico
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Associate Professor of Modern Continental European History, University of Warwick