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11168: 16039:, that this was the first time in Zionist history that Jews from Middle Eastern and North African countries were all packaged together in one category as the target of an immigration plan. There were earlier plans to bring specific groups, such as the Yemenites, but the "one million plan" was, as Shenhav says, "the zero point," the moment when the category of Mizrahi Jews in the current sense of this term, as an ethnic group distinct from European-born Jews, was invented." p.89—90 ..."Shehav's argument that the one million plan led to the invention of the category of Mizrahi Jews and gave the term the meaning it has today, because the plan treated all Jews who originated in these countries as belonging to a single category of candidates for immigration. ... it added another layer of meaning to the newly minted and still crystallizing Mizrahi category, that is, as implying a quasi-racial division between those who had an "oriental appearance" and those who did not." 4588: 11244:—out of a general Jewish population of about 5.4 million. The number of Jews who identify themselves as only culturally Jewish has risen from 20% in 1990 to 37% in 2008, according to the study. In the same period, the number of all US adults who said they had no religion rose from 8% to 15%. Jews are more likely to be secular than Americans in general, the researchers said. About half of all US Jews—including those who consider themselves religiously observant—claim in the survey that they have a secular worldview and see no contradiction between that outlook and their faith, according to the study's authors. Researchers attribute the trends among American Jews to the high rate of intermarriage and "disaffection from Judaism" in the United States. 12025:

considered Hispanic. Some Hispanic Jews, particularly in Miami and Los Angeles, immigrated from Latin America. The largest groups are those that fled Cuba after the communist revolution (known as Jewbans), Argentine Jews, and more recently, Venezuelan Jews. Argentina is the Latin American country with the largest Jewish population. There are a large number of synagogues in the Miami area that give services in Spanish. The last Hispanic Jewish community would be those that recently came from Portugal or Spain, after Spain and Portugal granted citizenship to the descendants of Jews who fled during the Inquisition. All the above listed Hispanic Jewish groups speak either Spanish or Ladino.

12436:) illustrate this financial elite. As was true of their non-Jewish counterparts, family, personal, and business connections, a reputation for honesty and integrity, ability, and a willingness to take calculated risks were essential to recruit capital from widely scattered sources. The families and the firms which they controlled were bound together by religious and social factors, and by the prevalence of intermarriage. These personal ties fulfilled real business functions before the advent of institutional organization in the 20th century. Antisemitic elements often falsely targeted them as key players in a supposed Jewish cabal conspiring to dominate the world. 9345:, especially outside of intellectual elites. Similarly, Kenneth Marcus observes a number of ambivalent cultural phenomena which have also been noted by other scholars, and he concludes that "the veneer of whiteness has not established conclusively the racial construction of American Jews". The relationship between Jewish identity and white majority identity continues to be described as "complicated" for many American Jews, particularly Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews of European descent. The issue of Jewish whiteness may be different for many Mizrahi, Sephardi, Black, Asian, and Latino Jews, many of whom may never be considered white by society. Many American 12116:, the country's national pastime, and in some cases tried to prevent their children from watching or participating in baseball-related activities. Most were focused on making sure they and their children took advantage of education and employment opportunities. Despite the efforts of parents, Jewish children became interested in baseball quickly since it was already embedded in the broader American culture. The second generation of immigrants saw baseball as a means to celebrate American culture without abandoning their broader religious community. After 1924, many Yiddish newspapers began covering baseball, which they had not done previously. 32: 4846:, 10% linked themselves to some other tradition, and 10% said they are "just Jewish." In 2013, Pew Research's Jewish population survey found that 35% of American Jews identified as Reform, 18% as Conservative, 10% as Orthodox, 6% who identified with other sects, and 30% did not identify with a denomination. Pew's 2020 poll found that 37% affiliated with Reform Judaism, 17% with Conservative Judaism, and 9% with Orthodox Judaism. Young Jews are more likely to identify as Orthodox or as unaffiliated compared to older members of the Jewish community. 9232:) Jews in USA (7.2%). The figure for 2006 is estimated at 468,000 (9.4%). Data from the Pew Center shows that, as of 2013, 27% of American Jews under the age of 18 live in Orthodox households, a dramatic increase from Jews aged 18 to 29, only 11% of whom are Orthodox. The UJA-Federation of New York reports that 60% of Jewish children in the New York City area live in Orthodox homes. In addition to economizing and sharing, many Haredi communities depend on government aid to support their high birth rate and large families. The Hasidic village of 5115: 11107: 9031: 8875: 8459: 8199: 7445: 4247: 2925: 12574:, source of income and layer a strong financial groundwork for the family's overall socioeconomic prosperity. Within the Jewish American cultural sphere, Jewish Americans have also developed a strong culture of entrepreneurship, for excellence in entrepreneurship and engagement in business and commerce is highly prized in Jewish culture. American Jews have also been drawn to various disciplines within academia such as physics, sociology, economics, psychology, mathematics, philosophy and linguistics (see 16124:

connection to a Jewish history of discrimination and otherness; a moral imperative to identify with the stranger; an anti-universalist impulse that does not want Jews to be among the "melted" in the proverbial melting pot; an experience of prejudice and awareness of the contingency of whiteness; a feeling that Jewish identity is not fully described by religion but has some ethnic/tribal component that feels more accurately described by race; and a discomfort with contemporary Jewish power and privilege."

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Washington-based public interest groups. American Jews opposed to Oslo joined Israelis "who brought their domestic issues to Washington" and together they pursued a campaign that focused most of its attention on Congress and the aid program. The dynamic was new to Washington. The Administration, the Rabin-Peres government, and some American Jewish groups teamed on one side while Israeli opposition groups and anti-Oslo American Jewish organizations pulled Congress in the other direction.

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imperative to identify with the stranger; an anti-universalist impulse that does not want Jews to be among the "melted" in the proverbial melting pot; an experience of prejudice and awareness of the contingency of whiteness; a feeling that Jewish identity is not fully described by religion but has some ethnic/tribal component that feels more accurately described by race; and a discomfort with contemporary Jewish power and privilege.

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Jews were not targeted by laws against interracial marriage, were allowed to attend whites-only schools, and were classified as white in the Jim Crow South. The sociologists Philip Q. Yang and Kavitha Koshy have also questioned what they call the "becoming white thesis", noting that most Jews of European descent have been legally classified as white since the first US census in

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news. As one commentator put it, after a year of tension between Israel and the United States, "there was an audible sigh of relief from American and Jewish liberals. Once again, they could support Israel as good Jews, committed liberals, and loyal Americans." The community "could embrace the Jewish state, without compromising either its liberalism or its patriotism".

2785:. As of 2020, the American Jewish population is estimated at 7.5 million people, accounting for 2.4% of the total US population. This includes 4.2 million adults who identify their religion as Jewish, 1.5 million Jewish adults who identify with no religion, and 1.8 million Jewish children. It is estimated that up to 15,000,000 Americans are part of the 12501:, but they started their own. The WASP dominance in law ended when a number of major Jewish law firms attained elite status in dealing with top-ranked corporations. As late as 1950 there was not a single large Jewish law firm in New York City. However, by 1965 six of the 20 largest firms were Jewish; by 1980 four of the ten largest were Jewish. 11486:, and 38% were concerned that Trump was encouraging right-wing extremism. Views of the Democratic and Republican parties were milder: 28% were concerned that Republicans were making alliances with white nationalists and tolerating anti-Semitism within their ranks, while 27% were concerned that Democrats were tolerating 9228:, have significantly higher birth rates and lower intermarriage rates, and are growing rapidly. The proportion of Jewish synagogue members who were Orthodox rose from 11% in 1971 to 21% in 2000, while the overall Jewish community declined in number. In 2000, there were 360,000 so-called "ultra-orthodox" ( 10460:

poverty are disproportionately likely to be children, young adults, the elderly, people with low educational attainment, part-time workers, immigrants from the former Soviet Union, immigrants without American citizenship, Holocaust survivors, Orthodox families, and single adults including single parents.

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Since the time of the last major wave of Jewish immigration to America (over 2,000,000 Jews from Eastern Europe who arrived between 1890 and 1924), Jewish secular culture in the United States has become integrated in almost every important way with the broader American culture. Many aspects of Jewish

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from its onset than any other ethnic group, or even most Americans. The greater opposition to the war was not simply a result of high Democratic identification among Jewish Americans, as Jewish Americans of all political persuasions were more likely to oppose the war than non-Jews who shared the same

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plays a major role as a part of Jewish identity. As Jewish culture puts a special premium on it and stresses the importance of cultivation of intellectual pursuits, scholarship, and learning, American Jews as a group tend to be better educated and earn more than Americans as a whole. Jewish Americans

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presents evidence to suggest that both these figures may be underestimations with a potential 7.0–7.4 million Americans of Jewish descent. Those higher estimates were however arrived at by including all non-Jewish family members and household members, rather than surveyed individuals. In a 2019 study

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Since many careers in science, business, and academia generally pay well, Jewish Americans also tend to have a somewhat higher average income than most Americans. The 2000–2001 National Jewish Population Survey shows that the median income of a Jewish family is $ 54,000 a year ($ 5,000 more than the

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American Jews in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries played a major role in developing America's financial services industry, both at investment banks and with investment funds. German Jewish bankers began to assume a major role in American finance in the 1830s when government and private borrowing to

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A 2013 Pew Research Center survey suggests that American Jews' views on domestic politics are intertwined with the community's self-definition as a persecuted minority who benefited from the liberties and societal shifts in the United States and feel obligated to help other minorities enjoy the same

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found that 16% of American Jews go to the synagogue at least once a month, 42% go less frequently but at least once a year, and 42% go less frequently than once a year. The survey found that of the 4.3 million strongly connected Jews, 46% belong to a synagogue. Among those households who belong to a

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While the median income of Jewish Americans is high, some Jewish communities have high levels of poverty. In the New York area, there are approximately 560,000 Jews living in poor or near-poor households, representing about 20% of the New York metropolitan Jewish community. Jewish people affected by

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Relations between American Jews of African descent and other Jewish Americans are generally cordial. There are, however, disagreements with a specific minority of Black Hebrew Israelites community from among African Americans who consider themselves, but not other Jews, to be the true descendants of

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has questioned the idea that American Jews were once considered non-white, writing that American Jews were "indeed considered white by law and by custom" despite the fact that they experienced "discrimination, hostility, assertions of inferiority and occasionally even violence." Bernstein notes that

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that the American Jewish population totaled 7.15 million, making up 2.17% of the country's 329.5 million inhabitants. In the same year, the American Jewish population was estimated at 7.6 million people, accounting for 2.4% of the total US population, by other organization. This includes 4.9 million

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Jews have been involved in the American folk music scene since the late 19th century; these tended to be refugees from Central and Eastern Europe, and significantly more economically disadvantaged than their established Western European Sephardic coreligionists. Historians see it as a legacy of the

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The Palestinian aid effort was certainly not helped by the heated debate that quickly developed inside the Beltway. Not only was the Israeli electorate divided on the Oslo accords, but so, too, was the American Jewish community, particularly at the leadership level and among the major New York and

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There are a diversity of Hispanic Jews living in America. The oldest community is that of the Sephardi Jews of New Netherland. Their ancestors had fled Spain or Portugal during the Inquisition for the Netherlands, and then came to New Netherland. Though there is dispute over whether they should be

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Jewish religious practice in America is quite varied. Among the 4.3 million American Jews described as "strongly connected" to Judaism, over 80% report some sort of active engagement with Judaism, ranging from attending at daily prayer services on one end of the spectrum, to as little as attending

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Hispanic and Latin American Jews, particularly Hispanic and Latin American Ashkenazi Jews, often identify as white rather than as Jews of color. Some Jews with roots in Latin America may not identify as "Hispanic" or "Latino" at all, usually due to their recent European immigrant origins. American

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A third of intermarried couples provide their children with a Jewish upbringing, and doing so is more common among intermarried families raising their children in areas with high Jewish populations. The Boston area, for example, is exceptional in that an estimated 60% of children of intermarriages

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to their collective history and its transformation into a historical art form. They tell us how Jews have survived being uprooted and transformed. Many immigrant narratives bear a theme of the arbitrary nature of fate and the reduced state of immigrants in a new culture. By contrast, ethnic family

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However, to some right wing Jews, the peace treaty was worrisome. From their perspective, Oslo was not just an affront to the sanctity of how they interpreted their culture, but also a personal threat to the lives and livelihood in the West Bank and Gaza, territory which was historically known as

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Many individual Jews have made significant contributions to American popular culture. There have been many Jewish American actors and performers, ranging from early 1900s actors, to classic Hollywood film stars, and culminating in many currently known actors. The field of American comedy includes

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were imposed at elite colleges and universities particularly in the Northeast, as a response to the growing number of children of recent Jewish immigrants; these limited the number of Jewish students accepted, and greatly reduced their previous attendance. Jewish enrollment at Cornell's School of

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Much of the Jewish American community lead middle class lifestyles. While the median household net worth of the typical American family is $ 99,500, among American Jews the figure is $ 443,000. In addition, the median Jewish American income is estimated to be in the range of $ 97,000 to $ 98,000,

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The 1993 Oslo Agreement made this split in the Jewish community official. Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin's handshake with Yasir Arafat during the September 13 White House ceremony elicited dramatically opposed reactions among American Jews. To the liberal universalists the accord was highly welcome

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had placed the number of American Jews at 6.4 million, or approximately 2.1% of the total population. This figure is significantly higher than the previous large scale survey estimate, conducted by the 2000–2001 National Jewish Population estimates, which estimated 5.2 million Jews. A 2007 study

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Today, many American Jews retain an ambivalence about whiteness, despite the fact that the vast majority have benefited and continue to benefit from white privilege. This ambivalence stems from many different places: a deep connection to a Jewish history of discrimination and otherness; a moral

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Rosenbaum, Judith. Jewish Women's Archive. Accessed December 12, 2015. "Today, many American Jews retain an ambivalence about whiteness, despite the fact that the vast majority have benefited and continue to benefit from white privilege. This ambivalence stems from many different places: a deep

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A 2013 Pew Research Center analysis of Jewish identification showed that in addition to the 1.8% of U.S. adults who identified their religion as Jewish (very similar to Gallup's estimate), another small percentage of Americans who did not initially say their religion was Jewish identified their

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Jews have been involved in financial services since the colonial era. They received rights to trade fur, from the Dutch and Swedish colonies. British governors honored these rights after taking over. During the Revolutionary War, Haym Solomon helped create America's first semi-central bank, and

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Dave Van Ronk observed that the behind the scenes 1950s folk scene "was at the very least 50 percent Jewish, and they adopted the music as part of their assimilation into the Anglo-American tradition which itself was largely an artificial construct but none the less provided us with some common

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Jews in America also overwhelmingly oppose current United States marijuana policy. In 2009, eighty-six percent of Jewish Americans opposed arresting nonviolent marijuana smokers, compared to 61% for the population at large and 68% of all Democrats. Additionally, 85% of Jews in the United States

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had arrived, migrating to the United States in large numbers due to antisemitic laws and restrictions in their countries of birth. They primarily became merchants and shop-owners. Gradually early Jewish arrivals from the east coast would travel westward, and in the fall of 1819 the first Jewish

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A 2014 Pew Research survey titled "How Americans Feel About Religious Groups", found that Jews were viewed the most favorably of all other groups, with a rating of 63 out of 100. Jews were viewed most positively by fellow Jews, followed by white Evangelicals. Sixty percent of the 3,200 persons

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This attention was based on a natural affinity toward and support for Israel in the Jewish community. The attention is also because of the ensuing and unresolved conflicts regarding the founding of Israel and the role for the Zionist movement going forward. A lively internal debate commenced,

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will result in the eventual disappearance of the American Jewish community. Intermarriage rates have risen from roughly 6% in 1950 and 25% in 1974, to approximately 40–50% in the year 2000. By 2013, the intermarriage rate had risen to 71% for non-Orthodox Jews. This, in combination with the

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Today, American Jews are a distinctive and influential group in the nation's politics. Jeffrey S. Helmreich writes that the ability of American Jews to effect this through political or financial clout is overestimated, that the primary influence lies in the group's voting patterns.

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Yiddish theater was very well attended, and provided a training ground for performers and producers who moved to Hollywood in the 1920s. Many of the early Hollywood moguls and pioneers were Jewish. They played roles in the development of radio and television networks, typified by

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s, an increasing number of American Jews have started to adopt Buddhist spiritual practices, while at the same time, they are continuing to identify with and practice Judaism. It may be the individual practices both Judaism and Buddhism. Notable American Jewish Buddhists include:

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Although American Jews have contributed greatly to American arts in general, there still remains a distinctly Jewish American literature. Jewish American literature often explores the experience of being a Jew in America, and the conflicting pulls of secular society and history.

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have all been used to refer to the group of peoples comprising the Germanic tribes, which include such peoples as Goths, whether Ostrogoths or Visigoths, Vandals and Franks, Burgundians, Alans, Langobards, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Suebi and Alamanni. The entire region east of the

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had a profound impact on the Jewish community in the United States, especially after 1960 as Holocaust education improved, as Jews tried to comprehend what had happened during it, and especially as they tried to commemorate it and grapple with it when they looked to the future.

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In New York City, while the German-Jewish community was well established 'uptown', the more numerous Jews who migrated from Eastern Europe faced tension 'downtown' with Irish and German Catholic neighbors, especially the Irish Catholics who controlled Democratic Party Politics

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Despite the fact that some of them were denied the right to vote or hold office in local jurisdictions, Sephardi Jews became active in community affairs in the 1790s, after they were granted political equality in the five states where they were most numerous. Until about 1830,

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in the New York City borough of Queens is home to 108th Street, which is called by some "Bukharian Broadway", a reference to the many stores and restaurants found on and around the street that have Bukharian influences. Many Bukharians are also represented in parts of

18490: 12355:, successor to the Almanac Singers, led by Pete Seeger, had a Jewish manager, and two of the four members of the group were Jewish (Gilbert and Hellerman). The B-side of "Good Night Irene" had the Hebrew folk song personally chosen for the record by Pete Seeger " 11478:, poll data from the Jewish Electorate Institute showed that 73% of Jewish voters felt less secure as Jews than before, 71% disapproved of Trump's handling of anti-Semitism (54% strongly disapprove), 59% felt that he bears "at least some responsibility" for the 9209:

comparatively low birthrate in the Jewish community, has led to a 5% decline in the Jewish population of the United States in the 1990s. In addition to this, when compared with the general American population, the American Jewish community is slightly older.

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in Florida. 2010 estimates of the number of Jewish Russian-speaking households in the New York city area are around 92,000, and the number of individuals are somewhere between 223,000 and 350,000. Another high population of Russian Jews can be found in the

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argues, with regard to the 2004 election: "Only 15% of Jews said that Israel was a key voting issue. Among those voters, 55% voted for Kerry (compared to 83% of Jewish voters not concerned with Israel)." Uslander goes on to point out that negative views of

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to be elected president. Additionally, 83% of white Jews voted for Obama compared to just 34% of white Protestants and 47% of white Catholics, though 67% of those identifying with another religion and 71% identifying with no religion also voted Obama.

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with 79% responding in a 2011 Pew poll that homosexuality should be "accepted by society", while the overall average in the same 2011 poll among Americans of all demographic groups was that 50%. A split on homosexuality exists by level of observance.

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showed that only five percent of American Jews consider being Jewish solely in terms of being a member of a religious group. Thus, the vast majority of American Jews view themselves as members of an ethnic group and/or a cultural group, and/or a

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represented the bulk of America's then-small Jewish population. While their descendants are a minority nowadays, they represent the remainder of those original American Jews along with an array of other Jewish communities, including more recent

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Though the majority (60–70%) of the country's Jews identify as Democratic, Jews span the political spectrum, with those at higher levels of observance being far more likely to vote Republican than their less observant and secular counterparts.

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narratives tend to show the ethnicity more in charge of his life, and perhaps in danger of losing his Jewishness altogether. Some stories show how a family member successfully negotiated the conflict between ethnic and American identities.

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The Civil War marked a transition for American Jews. It killed off the antisemitic canard, widespread in Europe, to the effect that Jews are cowardly, preferring to run from war rather than serve alongside their fellow citizens in battle.

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Hispanic Jews have lived in what is now the United States since colonial times. The earliest Hispanic Jewish settlers were Sephardi Jews from Spain and Portugal. Beginning in the 1500s, some of the Spanish settlers in what is now

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became influential in his own right. Asch's one-man corporation Folkways Records also released much of the music of Leadbelly and Pete Seeger from the '40s and '50s. Asch's large music catalog was voluntarily donated to the

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Medicine fell from 40% to 4% between the world wars, and Harvard's fell from 30% to 4%. Before 1945, only a few Jewish professors were permitted as instructors at elite universities. In 1941, for example, antisemitism drove

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is a major factor in the socioeconomic status of disabled Jews. Disabled Jews are significantly more likely to be low-income compared to able-bodied Jews, while high-income Jews are significantly less likely to be disabled.

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Jews comprise 2.2% of the USA population, but they represent 30% of faculty at elite colleges, 21% of Ivy League students, 25% of the Turing Award winners, 23% of the wealthiest Americans, and 38% of the Oscar-winning film

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have made a major impact within mainstream American public life. Of American Nobel Prize winners, 37 percent have been Jewish Americans (18 times the percentage of Jews in the population), as have been 61 percent of the

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is of German Jewish descent. Izzy Young who created the legendary Folklore Center in New York, and currently the Folklore Centrum near Mariatorget in Södermalm, Sweden, which relates to American and Swedish folk music.

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In considering the trade-off between the economy and environmental protection, American Jews were significantly more likely than other religious groups (excepting Buddhism) to favor stronger environmental protection.

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in 1948 and recognition thereof by the American government (following objections by American isolationists) was an indication of both its intrinsic support and its response to learning the horrors of the Holocaust.

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period, the American Jewish community was bitterly and deeply divided and as a result, it was unable to form a united front. Most Jews who had previously emigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe supported

4650:. The American Jewish community was divided over whether or not they agreed with the Israeli response; the great majority came to accept the war as necessary. Similar tensions were aroused by the 1977 election of 21565:(Syracuse University Press; 2014) 384 pages; traces the history, dominance, and motivations of liberalism in the American Jewish political culture, and look at concerns about Israel and memories of the Holocaust. 18851: 13066: 11164:, 38% of Jews were affiliated with the Reform tradition, 35% were Conservative, 6% were Orthodox, 1% were Reconstructionists, 10% linked themselves to some other tradition, and 10% said they are "just Jewish". 4686:(IPF) and other groups friendly to the Labour government in Israel. They tried to assure Congress that American Jewry was behind the Accord and defended the efforts of the administration to help the fledgling 14808:, the peace treaty amounted to an appeasement of Palestinian terrorism. They and others repeatedly warned that the newly established Palestinian Authority (PA) would pose a serious security threat to Israel. 15194: 11167: 11606:

are. A 2007 survey of Conservative Jewish leaders and activists showed that an overwhelming majority supported gay rabbinical ordination and same-sex marriage. Accordingly, 78% of Jewish voters rejected

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Jews of European descent, often referred to as white Jews, are classified as white by the US census and have generally been classified as legally white throughout American history. Many American Jews of

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by the fact that the Jewish population is on average older than other religious groups in the country, with 51% of polled adults over the age of 50 compared to 41% nationally. Older people tend to both

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opposed using federal law enforcement to close patient cooperatives for medical marijuana in states where medical marijuana is legal, compared to 67% of the population at large and 73% of Democrats.

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are generally more observant than Jews in the South or West. Reflecting a trend also observed among other religious groups, Jews in the Northwestern United States are typically the least observant.

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Jewish migration to the United States increased dramatically in the early 1880s, as a result of persecution and economic difficulties in parts of Eastern Europe. Most of these new immigrants were

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of society, with numerous employments barred to them, to being a group with a high concentrations in members of the academia and a per capita income higher than the average in the United States.

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speaking Jews from the Ottoman Empire, in what is now Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Libya, and Syria. These Spanish-speaking Sephardi Jews, as well as Sephardi Jews of European descent, such as the

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Lachoff, Irwin (2019). "Reform in Mid Nineteenth-Century Jewish New Orleans: Achieving "the Spirit of Progress and Enlightenment" Through Acculturation, Residential Patterns, and Personality".

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or France, where they form a significant portion of the Jewish communities today. Other significant communities of Sephardim Tehorim also migrated in more recent times from the Near East to

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For congressional and senate races, since 1968, American Jews have voted about 70–80% for Democrats; this support increased to 87% for Democratic House candidates during the 2006 elections.

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According to Gallup and Pew Research Center findings, "at maximum 2.2% of the US adult population has some basis for Jewish self-identification." In 2020, it was estimated by demographers

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In the business world, it was found in 1995 that while Jewish Americans constituted less than 2.5 percent of the U.S. population, they occupied 7.7 percent of board seats at various U.S.

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and are rarely considered people of color in American society. According to the Pew Research Center, the majority of American Jews are non-Hispanic white Ashkenazi Jews. Law professor

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The population of Americans of Jewish descent is demographically characterized by an aging population composition and low fertility rates significantly below generational replacement.

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newspapers was half a million in New York City alone, and 600,000 nationally. In addition, thousands more subscribed to the numerous weekly papers and the many magazines in Yiddish.

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are large hedge funds cofounded by Jews. They have also played a pivotal role in the private equity industry, co-founding some of the largest firms in the United States, such as

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do not have different branches (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, etc.) but usually remain observant and religious. However, their synagogues are generally considered Orthodox or

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on August 28, 1963: "As Jews we bring to this great demonstration, in which thousands of us proudly participate, a twofold experience—one of the spirit and one of our history.

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of Jewishness in favor of one that embraced ethnicity. The key to understanding this transition from a racial self-definition to a cultural or ethnic one can be found in the

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These parallel themes have facilitated the extraordinary economic, political, and social success of the American Jewish community, but also have contributed to widespread

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Although American Jews generally leaned Republican in the second half of the 19th century, the majority has voted Democratic since at least 1916, when they voted 55% for

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article suggests that the Jewish movement to the Republican party is focused heavily on faith-based issues, similar to the Catholic vote, which is credited for helping

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that limited citizenship to "free White person(s)", and that they could find no legislative or judicial evidence that American Jews had ever been considered non-white.

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A 2013 Pew Research Center report found that 1.7 million American Jewish adults, 1.6 million of whom were raised in Jewish homes or had Jewish ancestry, identified as

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view all Jews as non-white, even if they are of European descent. Some white nationalists believe that Jews can be white and a small number of white nationalists are

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is less widespread. The significant Israeli immigrant communities in the United States are in the New York City metropolitan area, Los Angeles, Miami, and Chicago.

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area was home to about 83,000 Jews in 2002, and has been rapidly growing. The greatest Jewish population on a per-capita basis for incorporated areas in the US are

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was largely ignored by American media as it was happening. Reporters and editors largely did not believe the stories of atrocities which were coming out of Europe.

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and only favored the Democrat by 65%, while Nixon more than doubled Republican Jewish support to 35%. In the election of 1976, Jewish voters supported Democrat

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ownership. Of the 30 teams in the NBA, there are 14 Jewish principal owners. Several Jews have served as NBA commissioners including prior NBA commissioner

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by non-Sephardic Jews. But, not all Sephardim are Orthodox; among the pioneers of Reform Judaism movement in the 1820s there was the Sephardic congregation

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Americans of Jewish descent have been successful in many fields and aspects over the years. The Jewish community in America has gone from being part of the

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Patterson, Alan Owen (February 2008). "The Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Experience with Baseball in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century".

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Map of Jewish senators as of 2024. Blue indicates there is currently one Jewish senator from that state. Gray indicates no Jewish senators from that state.

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Korman, Gerd (1987). "Mass Murder Hides Holocaust: Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945 by Deborah E. Lipstadt".

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The great majority of school-age Jewish students attend public schools, although Jewish day schools and yeshivas are to be found throughout the country.

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which were then occurring across Europe. One important development was the sudden conversion of many American Jewish leaders to Zionism late in the war.

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Depending on religious definitions and varying population data, the United States has the largest or second largest Jewish community in the world, after

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speak primarily Russian at home, and there are several notable communities where public life and business are carried out mainly in Russian, such as in

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In general the Ashkenazi originally came out of the Holy Roman Empire, speaking a version of German that incorporates Hebrew and Slavic words, Yiddish.

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secular Yiddish theater, cantorial traditions and a desire to assimilate. By the 1940s Jews had become established in the American folk music scene.

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secular heritage as Jewish. According to this research, at maximum 2.2% of the U.S. adult population has some basis for Jewish self-identification.

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jobs, 61% of American Jews work as professionals, many of whom are highly educated, salaried professionals whose work is largely self-directed in

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diaspora); and all other places of their exiled settlement. They sometimes settled near existing Jewish communities, such as the one from former

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A 2014 Pew poll found that American Jews mostly support abortion rights, with 83% answering that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

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rabbis in America perform same-sex marriages as a matter of routine, and there are fifteen LGBT Jewish congregations in North America. Reform,

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since the mid-17th century. However, they were few in number, with at most 200 to 300 having arrived by 1700. Those early arrivals were mostly

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The number of U.S. dual citizens in Israel has been estimated at close to 300,000, while the number of French dual citizens is about 100,000.

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factors. There were about four million adherents of Judaism in the US as of 2001, approximately 1.4% of the US population. According to the

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also have an average of 14.7 years of schooling making them the most highly educated of all major religious groups in the United States.

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became the first American Jew to run for national office on a major-party ticket when he was chosen as Democratic presidential candidate

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adults who identify their religion as Jewish, 1.2 million Jewish adults who identify with no religion, and 1.6 million Jewish children.

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for some of the causes), and have played a disproportionate role in numerous academic domains. Jewish American intellectuals such as

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benefits. American Jews across age and gender lines tend to vote for and support politicians and policies which are supported by the

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polled a respectable 35%, but during Bush's re-election attempt in 1992, his Jewish support dropped to just 11%, with 80% voting for

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river in Western Germany and in Northern France dating to the Middle Ages. The traditional diaspora language of Ashkenazi Jews is

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and are considered white unless they are Ashkenazi Jews of color. Many American Jews identify themselves as being both Jewish and

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and others to promote a revival in Jewish cultural identity and combat the idea of race as a means to define or identify peoples.

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and the teachings of many Iberian Jewish philosophers). This article deals with Sephardim within the narrower ethnic definition.

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Scholars debate whether the historical experience of Jews in the United States has been such a unique experience as to validate

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Jewish American people have had a large effect on the cuisine of the United States. Common foods eaten by Jewish Americans are

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calculated an 'expatriate rate' of 2.9 persons per thousand, putting Israel in the mid-range of expatriate rates among the 175

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caused a further split among American Jews; this mirrored a similar split among Israelis and led to a parallel rift within the

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An Exploration of religious gender differences amongst Jewish-American emerging adults of different socio-religious subgroups.

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Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht. "The Fate of the Jews, A people torn between Israeli Power and Jewish Ethics". Times Books, 1983.

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Many Jews have become remarkably successful as an entrepreneurial and professional minority in the United States. Many Jewish

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it was found that approximately 12-15% of Jews in the United States, about 1,000,000 of 7,200,000 identify as multiracial and

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Religious Jews regarded those who assimilated with horror, and Zionists campaigned against assimilation as an act of treason.

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During the Reagan re-election campaign of 1984, the Republican retained 31% of the Jewish vote, while 67% voted for Democrat

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Profiles in American Judaism: the Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, and Reconstructionist traditions in historical perspective

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Sergio DellaPergola. "World Jewish Population, 2012." The American Jewish Year Book (2012) (Dordrecht: Springer) pp. 212–283

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served as Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. The number of Jews elected to the House rose to an all-time high of 30.

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community. The Indian Jewish Congregation of USA, headquartered in New York City, is the center of the organized community.

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of 1990 asked 4.5 million adult Jews to identify their denomination. The national total showed 38% were affiliated with the

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Since the late 20th century, Jews have played a major role in the hedge fund industry, according to Zuckerman (2009). Thus

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About half of the American Jews are considered to be religious. Out of this 2,831,000 religious Jewish population, 92% are

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A 2009 Harris Poll showed that American Jews constitute the one religious group which is most accepting of the science of

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Yiddish is a dialect of German written in the Hebrew alphabet and based entirely on the East European Jewish population.

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Jews had a median household income at $ 185,000 (compared to the American median household income of $ 59,000 for 2016).

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Union Hymnal: Songs and Prayers for Jewish Worship: Central Conference of American Rabbis, Committee on Synagogue Music

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in 20th century's Israel. A majority of the Jewish population in the United States are Ashkenazi Jews who descend from

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8 housing subsidies at a higher rate than the rest of the region, and half of the population in the Hasidic village of

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in the late 20th century. Since the 1990s, around 1000 Hebrew-speaking, Ethiopian Jews that had settled in Israel as

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and the yearning for freedom. During the Middle Ages my people lived for a thousand years in the ghettos of Europe.

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of Rhode Island was the only Jewish American who was newly elected to the 112th Congress; he had been the Mayor of

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instruction is also commonly offered at synagogues in the form of supplementary Hebrew schools or Sunday schools.

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Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Sphere

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many Jews. The legacy also includes songwriters and authors, for example the author of the song "Viva Las Vegas"

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but also consider themselves ethnically Jewish. Another 700,000 American Christian adults considered themselves "

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lives in the New York City metropolitan area, in both New York state and New Jersey. Many are members of India's

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of Memphis, Tennessee). The total number of Jews serving in the House of Representatives declined from 31 in the

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caused a growing separation between blacks and Jews, though both groups remained solidly in the Democratic camp.

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Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion Among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation

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The first generation of Jewish Americans who immigrated during the 1880–1924 peak period were not interested in

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movements. In the mid-20th century, there were American Jews who were among the most active participants in the

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of New Hampshire did not run for re-election but instead (unsuccessfully) sought his state's open Senate seat.

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At the beginning of the 20th century, these newly arrived Jews built support networks consisting of many small

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From Fluidity to Rigidity: The Religious Worlds of Conservative and Orthodox Jews in Twentieth Century America

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Weil, Shalva (1997) "Collective Designations and Collective Identity of Ethiopian Jews", in Shalva Weil (ed.)

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from the influence of the Iberian Jewish exiles over the course of the last few centuries (including from the

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Examples of the major impact Jews have had in the American folk music arena include, but are not limited to:

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has also become a significant and controversial issue within the modern American Jewish community, with both

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The American Jews' majority continues to identify themselves with Judaism and its main traditions, such as

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with a heavy Jewish urban population, driven out mainly by economic reasons. Many Jews also emigrated from

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since 1945. Both major parties have made strong commitments in support of Israel. Dr. Eric Uslaner of the

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Gurock, Jeffrey S (2013). "Writing New York's Twentieth Century Jewish History: A Five Borough Journey".

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Dylan, Seeger, Lomax, Cohen all either write whole songs about it, or spend considerable time praising it

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American Jewish population, accounting for 4.5% of the total US population, consisting of those who have

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World of our Fathers: The journey of the East European Jews to America and the life they found and made

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Adam Mendelsohn, "Beyond the Battlefield: Reevaluating the Legacy of the Civil War for American Jews,"

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garnered 40% of the Jewish vote for his reelection, the best showing to date for the Republicans since

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Since 1845, a total of 34 Jews have served in the Senate, including the 14 present-day senators noted

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The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America

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The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America

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was president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994 to 2004 (and is currently president of the

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American Jewish Year Book 2020 The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities Since 1899

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that while "t is true that Republicans are making small and steady strides into the Jewish community

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In contrast to the ongoing trends of assimilation, some communities within American Jewry, such as

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in the American Jewish Yearbook, the distribution of the Jewish population in 2020 was as follows:

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Howard B. Rock, "Upheaval, Innovation, and Transformation: New York City Jews and the Civil War,"

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Kelman, Dr. Ari Y; Tapper, Dr. Aaron Hahn; Fonseca, Ms. Izabel; Saperstein, Dr. Aliya (May 2019).

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Several commentators have observed that "many American Jews retain a feeling of ambivalence about

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Jewish Americans by state according to the American Jewish Yearbook, 2020 and the US Census Bureau

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Korelitz (1996) shows how American Jews during the late 19th and early 20th centuries abandoned a

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Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America: World War II to the Present, A Judaica Collection Exhibit

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and 1% Other (mixed-race etc.). Almost this many non-religious Jews exist in the United States.

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As of January 2014, there were five openly gay men serving in Congress and two are Jewish:

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or identify as both Jewish and non-white. However, Jews of European descent rarely identify as

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During the 1952 and 1956 elections, Jewish voters cast 60% or more of their votes for Democrat

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Barry E. Supple, "A Business Elite: German-Jewish Financiers in Nineteenth-Century New York,"

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Needs of the Community: A Classification of Needs & Services for the L.A. Jewish Community

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Jews of Argentine, Brazilian, and Mexican descent are often Ashkenazi, but some are Sephardi.

9456:". Karen Brodkin explains this ambivalence as rooted in anxieties about the potential loss of 9341:". Karen Brodkin explains this ambivalence as rooted in anxieties about the potential loss of 4132:

garnered 81% of the Jewish vote in the 1968 elections in his losing bid for president against

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and helped to found unions that played a major role in left-wing politics and, after 1936, in

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Her works praise her: a history of Jewish women in America from colonial times to the present

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In All His Glory: the Life and Times of William S. Paley and the Birth of Modern Broadcasting

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The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967, Volume 2

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Korelitz, Seth (1997). "The Menorah Idea: From Religion to Culture, From Race to Ethnicity".

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from around the world that have come together to make up all of America's Jewish population.

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in 1965 became the first Jew to serve, albeit temporarily, as the leader of a major American

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Rozenblit, Marsha L. (1982). "Review of Bela Vago's "Jewish Assimilation in Modern Times"".

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are being raised Jewish, meaning that intermarriage would actually be contributing to a net

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According to the Pew Research Center, fewer than 1% of American Jews in 2020 identified as

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found that more than 90% of Jews who responded to its survey described themselves as being

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Maisel, Louis Sandy; Forman, Ira N.; Altschiller, Donald; Bassett, Charles Walker (2004).

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Handbook of American-Jewish literature: an analytical guide to topics, themes, and sources

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in 1951, and edited by him until 1967, when the magazine stopped publication for decades.

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community in the United States, notably the large community in and around Los Angeles and

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if two-year vocational and community college diplomas and certificates are also included.

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and became the political majority. Many came to America with experience in the socialist,

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U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census of Population, Public Law 94-171 Redistricting Data File.

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Why Didn't the Press Shout?: American & International Journalism During the Holocaust

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nearly twice as high the American national median. Either of these two statistics may be

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Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews and Italians of New York City, 1929–1941

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such as engineering, science, medicine, investment banking, finance, law, and academia.

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The Sectors of American Judaism: Reform, Orthodoxy, Conservatism, and Reconstructionism

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American culture have, in turn, become part of the wider culture of the United States.

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movements. A number of American Jews have also been active figures in the struggle for

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Lazerwitz, Bernard Melvin; Winter, J. Alan; Dashefsky, Arnold; Tabory, Ephram (1998).

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Vincent P. Carosso, "A Financial Elite: New York's German-Jewish Investment Bankers,"

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Tony Michels, "Is America 'Different'? A Critique of American Jewish Exceptionalism,"

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of San Francisco where Russian markets stand alongside the numerous Asian businesses.

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as of 2011 with the largest Jewish communities, as a percentage of population, were:

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became a well-organized movement in the U.S. with the involvement of leaders such as

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During the Nixon re-election campaign of 1972, Jewish voters were apprehensive about

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F. Weisberg, Herbert (2012). "Reconsidering Jewish Presidential Voting Statistics".

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synagogue, 38% are members of Reform synagogues, 33% Conservative, 22% Orthodox, 2%

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According to a study published by demographers and sociologists Ira M. Sheskin and

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Jewish communities from Western Asia and North Africa; in this classification are

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In 2013, Pew found that 70% of American Jews identified with or leaned toward the

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became the first Jewish candidate to win a state's presidential primary election.

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The Disenchantment of the Orient: Expertise in Arab Affairs and the Israeli State

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average family) and 34% of Jewish households report income over $ 75,000 a year.

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Members of the American Jewish community have included prominent participants in

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The American Jewish community includes African American Jews and other American

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Ambivalent American Jew: Politics, Religion, and Family in American Jewish Life

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Orthodox Population Grows Faster Than First Figures in Pew #JewishAmerica Study

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Village, New York (greater than 93% based on language spoken in home), City of

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in Israel. Several other major cities have large Jewish communities, including

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between 1915 and 1925. During this time contributors to the Menorah promoted a

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in the United States and one of the first governors of the newly established

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English department in 1943, but the Economics department decided not to hire

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The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews

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The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews

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5 key takeaways, some surprising, from new survey of US Modern Orthodox Jews

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had a distinctly negative impact for Republicans among Jewish voters, while

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Charleston, South Carolina had more Jews than anywhere else in North America

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To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L. A.

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Modern Jewish Religious Movements: A History of Emancipation and Abjustment

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p. 86: "The principal significance of this plan lies in the fact, noted by

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in the number of Jews. As well, some children raised through intermarriage

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religious services west of the Appalachian Range were conducted during the

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Uses survey data to map the religious beliefs of American Jews, 1973–2002.

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Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880–2000

20749:"TPG Sells Shares of Indian Company – Win-win for Everybody!" By Orna Taub 19529:"President Benefits From Efforts to Build a Coalition of Religious Voters" 19460:"Over three-quarters of U.S. Jews Voted for Biden in Election, Poll Finds" 19078: 16681:"For Some Americans Of MENA Descent, Checking A Census Box Is Complicated" 16053: 15585:

Organisation for Economic Co-ordination and Development, Statistics Portal

14527:"Jewish Members of U.S. Congress: House of Representatives (1845-Present)" 13919: 13278:. Vol. 20 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. p. 305. 12396:

advised Alexander Hamilton on the building of America's financial system.

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History of the Jews in the United States § Historiography and memory

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Jewish vote to the Republican Party in Presidential elections since 1916

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Jewish vote to the Democratic Party in Presidential elections since 1916

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Stephen J. Whitfield, "The Jewish contribution to American journalism."

19977:"Appendix Table 2. Languages Spoken at Home: 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2007" 18052:"Hindus are the most educated group in the US, least educated worldwide" 17741:"New Study Claims US Jews Have Reasons to Be Proud – Latest News Briefs" 16775: 15080: 15078: 13751:, edited by Seymour Martin Lipset, (Transaction Publishers 1990), page 3 12408:(Rothschild's agent in New York and a leading Democrat), Philip Speyer, 10053:, or were the first in new frontiers, with their furthest reach via the 4737:

in New York and an ardent supporter of that version of a peace process.

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There were 19 Jews among the 435 US Representatives at the start of the

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Jews against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties

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From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture

19174: 15703: 14852:"Jewish Population Rises to 15.7 Million Worldwide | The Jewish Agency" 14703: 14072:

What Went Wrong? The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance

13498:, transl. from the German and ed. by David Philipson, Cincinnati, 1901; 12375: 11558: 11380: 11339:; this is specifically the case among those Jews whose parents are not 11307: 10554: 10523: 10461: 10421: 10401:) of American Jews have, the second highest of any ethnic groups after 9609: 9584: 9532: 9472:

Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent (often referred to as

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In opposition to Oslo, an alliance of conservative groups, such as the

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American Israelis: Migration, Transnationalism, and Diasporic Identity

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Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association

21052:"Why Are So Many Pro Basketball Owners Jewish (Like Donald Sterling)?" 19439:

POLL: Domestic issues dominate the priorities of the Jewish electorate

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by Eric Fingerhut, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), November 25, 2008.

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According to the North American Jewish Data Bank the 104 counties and

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is the second-largest Jewish population center in the world after the

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While earlier Jewish immigrants from Germany tended to be politically

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Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890–1940

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From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage and Screen

20093:"Where You Live in New York May Say a Lot About Your Jewish Heritage" 18394:

Newport, Frank; Agrawal, Sangeeta; Witters, Dan (February 16, 2012).

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edited by Steven T. Katz, (University of America Press 2010), page 15

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than most Americans, especially when they are compared with American

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The Berman Jewish Databank @ The Jewish Federations of North America

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60 (2007): 1803-1866; discrimination p. 1838 and statistics p. 1805.

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IN PERSON; Developer With Eye To Profits For Society" By TINA KELLEY

18329:"'Disabled US Jews twice as likely to live in poverty' - new report" 18267:"Jewish Poverty Skyrockets in New York — Doubles in Size Since 1991" 17262:

Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust

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How Jews Became White Folks and what that Says about Race in America

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How Jews Became White Folks and what that Says about Race in America

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Percentage of the state population that identifies itself as Jewish.

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American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society

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Shul with a Pool: The "synagogue-center" in American Jewish History

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The Chosen People in America: A Study in Jewish Religious Ideology.

20964:"Misconceptions and lessons about Chinese and Jewish entrepreneurs" 19586:"Among Religious Groups, Jewish Americans Most Strongly Oppose War" 18554: 18359:"Jewish Poverty in the United States: A Summary of Recent Research" 17153:(Megillah 1:9 , were also called simply by the diocese "Germamia". 17129: 17071: 16354: 14165: 13264:

Atkin, Maurice; et al. (2007). "United States of America". In

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in economics recipients (thirty-five times the Jewish percentage).

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US serviceman lighting a Menorah in observance of the first day of

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American Jewish Yearbook: The Annual Record of Jewish Civilization

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Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism

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Why is America Different?: American Jewry on Its 350th Anniversary

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was the first practicing Jewish Senator, and would later serve as

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at 43%. And while 27% of Americans have a four-year university or

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is also sometimes extended to include Jewish communities from the

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Americans, who are currently classified by the US census as being

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Race and ethnicity in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America

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Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture.

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that are passed down from one generation to the next serve as an

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is the language of most Jewish religious literature, such as the

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where they have lived for many centuries. Most American Jews are

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Many Jews are concentrated in the Northeast, particularly around

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in the latter half of the 1800s, leading to the establishment of

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Eli Wald, "The rise and fall of the WASP and Jewish law firms."

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The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today

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and the continuing administrative governance of portions of the

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The Jews of the United States, 1790–1840: A Documentary History

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American Judaism, Adventure in Modernity: An Anthological Essay

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R. William Weisberger, "Jews and American Investment Banking,"

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was asked by the conference to apologize for criticizing ZOA's

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17104:(the people of Gallia, meaning, mainly the people from modern 16534:"American Jews, Race, Identity, and the Civil Rights Movement" 16114:"American Jews, Race, Identity, and the Civil Rights Movement" 15025:"New Brandeis study estimates 7.6 million Jews living in U.S." 10549:

By 1986, a third of the presidents of the elite undergraduate

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originating from traditionally established communities in the

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The phenomenon of Israeli migration to the US is often termed

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garnered 39%, and 14% went to independent (former Republican)

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Jews in the Center: Conservative Synagogues and Their Members

18239:"American Jews and Charitable Giving: An Enduring Tradition." 17167: 16640: 16207: 15394: 15256:

Jews in the Center: Conservative Synagogues and Their Members

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is also the primary official language of the modern State of

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s Washington bureau chief, dismisses this notion, writing in

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of any ethnic group (84% reported being registered to vote).

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in 1948. Harvard hired its first Jewish biochemists in 1954.

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territory. Disagreement over Israel's 1993 acceptance of the

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converse in the back seat of a car in front of Baruch's home.

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American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement

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found that around 3.4 million American Jews call themselves

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Jews divided by cultural or Jewish ethnic division groupings

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20387:. The Central Conference of American Rabbis. January 1948. 19794:"L.A. Jews overwhelmingly opposed Prop. 8, exit poll finds" 17113: 17101: 16863:"Sephardic Hispanic Heritage: 13 Facts About 'Latino Jews'" 15372:. The Association of Religion Data Archives. Archived from 13617: 13095:

Ethnicity in Contemporary America: A Geographical Appraisal

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As a whole, American and Canadian Jews donate more than $ 9

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Conserving Conservative Judaism: Reconstructionist Judaism

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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

19301:(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), pp. 150–165. 19269:... Not Just Coen Brothers Fans Will Take Comfort in That" 17583:"Beta Israel | History, Names, Movement, & Facts" 15157:"How Many Jews of Color Are There? – eJewish Philanthropy" 14904: 14554:"5 facts about the religious makeup of the 116th Congress" 12821: 12812: 12684:. Companies specializing in Jewish American foods include 12277:

persecution which was also occurring elsewhere in Europe.

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At least twenty eight American Jews have been awarded the

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that developed and lived for centuries in the area of the

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permitted Jews to become British citizens and emigrate to

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Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA)

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Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB)

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History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage

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12842: 12809: 12669: 12512:, one of the leading advocates of the establishment of a 12088: 11284:), 19% of American Jews believe that God does not exist. 10534:. That year, Meyerson served as acting chancellor of the 6190:

is home to by far the largest Jewish American population.

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Metropolitan areas with largest Jewish populations (2015)

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