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Jews living in the South or the West and in small towns throughout the United States experienced a different America from those in the large northeastern cities. The larger the city immigrant Jews settled in, the more likely their community would resemble the Lower East Side of New York: Yiddish-speaking Jews living in large concentrations and ...
- Gerald Sorin
- Self-Policing Boston Globe Article, July 8, 1902
- Intermarriage Photo of Irving Berlin and Ellin Mackay
- Everyone's Jewish Now Ads For Levy's Real Jewish Rye Bread
As millions of Jews came to this country between 1880-1920, men often arrived before their wives, hoping to earn enough money to bring their families over later. Some of the men had affairs, and some even tried to marry their lovers. The American press, always alert to juicy scandals, reported on these attempted bigamies. One article in the Boston ...
Mackay and Berlin When the great Jewish American songwriter Irving Berlin married Ellin Mackay in 1926, it was controversial inside and outside the Jewish community. She was from a wealthy, Republican — and Christian — family; he was a self-made Jewish immigrant whose songs, including "White Christmas," came to embody the essence of mainstream Amer...
In 1961, Levy's ran a hugely successful advertising campaign with the slogan, "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's real Jewish rye." The ads featured an iconic American — an Asian man, a Native American, a New York City cop and Buster Keaton, among others — eating a rye-bread sandwich. SARNA: The powerful message underlying this ad campaign ...
Their destination was the land of Canaan: “Leave your own country, your kinsmen, and your father’s house, and go to a country that I will show you” (Genesis 12:1). After arriving there, however, they continued their nomadic existence. Isaac made Beersheba his home, and seldom left it.
Written by Will Herberg, a Jewish ex-Marxist intellectual, the book argued that America had become a “‘triple melting pot,’ restructured in three great communities with religious labels, defining three great ‘communions’ or ‘faiths.'”. To be an American, according to Herberg, meant defining oneself according to the new ...
- Jonathan Sarna
May 5, 2015 · The Jews of the United States date their community to these first twenty-three souls, although a few Jewish merchants and even a metallurgist had preceded them to North America, and Jews had already made their way, or soon would, to colonial settlements beyond the Atlantic seaboard, among them Curaçao, Surinam, and Jamaica.
- Pamela S. Nadell
- 2010
The contemporary American Jewish community is descended largely from central European Jews who immigrated in the mid-19th century and, particularly, from eastern European Jews who arrived between 1881 and 1924, as well as more recent refugees from, and survivors of, the Holocaust.
May 11, 2021 · Similarly, most people raised as Reform Jews by religion also identify as Reform today (66%). The retention rate for those raised within Conservative Judaism is lower; four-in-ten people (41%) raised as Conservative Jews by religion continue to identify with Conservative Judaism as adults, although fully nine-in-ten (93%) are still Jewish. In ...
