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Portrait of a People | Westward Ho!

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Courtesy of the Library of Congress Rio Grande (Colorado River)Oil on canvas51 x 76 cmColorado, 1853Kahn Collection, Oakland Museum of California Solomon Nunes Carvalho1815–1897 Solomon Nunes Carvalho was one of the first American-born...

19th centuryAmericaArtColumnsIssue 55 | December 2020

Calling Henrietta – Henrietta Szold

Efrat Krausz

From teaching immigrants to setting up a country-wide social work system, from founding Hadassah to saving thousands of young people through Youth Aliya, nothing seems to have been beyond Henrietta Szold. How did a nonpartisan...

20th centuryArticlesIssue 15 | February 2013JerusalemNew YorkWomenZionism

Bar Mitzvas Coming of Age – Bar Mitzva

Hizky Shoham

Thirteenth birthdays haven’t always been cause for Jewish celebration. When were the first bar and bat mitzva ceremonies, and why their enduring appeal even among otherwise unaffiliated Jews? Hizky Shoham Why celebrate bar and bat...

20th centuryAmericaAmerican JewsArticlesIssue 68 | March 2024Land of IsraelLifecycle

Warner Brothers’ Leading – Harry Warner

Yuval Rivlin

On the eve of World War II, Jews’ domination of Hollywood got political. How Harry Warner’s testimony before the Senate redefined Americanism Yuval Rivlin Harry Warner wasn’t a nice guy. Years of Hollywood wheeling and...

AmericaAmerican JewsArticlesIssue 75 | December 2025WWII

Progress or Truth – American Yiddish Press

Ehud Manor

Two socialist Yiddish papers vied for American readers at the turn of the 20th century. Arguing over both purpose and politics, Di varhayt and Forverts engaged in a battle of wits only one would survive...

20th centuryArticlesIssue 73 | June 2025Literature and CultureNew York

Portrait of a People | Chilling Testimony

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel The Slave TradeOil on canvas162 x 229 cmParis, circa 1840Wilberforce House Museum,Hull, England François-Auguste Biard1799–1882 Genre ArtAn outgrowth of Realism, genre art focuses on the world as it is, including any typical depiction...

19th centuryAmericaArtColumnsIssue 72 | March 2025

Sacred and Profane on the New York Yiddish Stage

Yakov Friedland

Yiddish theater enabled Jewish immigrants to the U.S. to tell the Jewish story in a new way. Its formative heroes were actors, directors, and producers rolled into one, whose very different attitudes toward Jewish identity...

19th centuryactorsArticlesIssue 73 | June 2025New York

Catalogue of Care – Julius Rosenwald

Yuval Jobani

Self-made millionaire Julius Rosenwald devoted his fortune as well as himself to others. His philanthropic principles speak volumes about integration for both Jewish and black Americans Yuval Jobani Has there ever been a philanthropist who...

20th centuryAmericaAmerican JewsArticlesentrepreneursIssue 73 | June 2025

Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

Yitzhak Klein

Musings on history, alternative history, and theology based on the surprising final scene of Tarantino’s film. Yitzhak Klein Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as RacismGil Troy Oxford University Press,2013, 358 pages On November 10,...

20th centuryAmericaBook ReviewsColumnsIssue 16 | April-May 2013StatesmenZionism

From the Archives | Not Crying for Argentina

Denise Rein

Which Syrian Jews begging to resettle in Argentina intended to stay there, and which just wanted out of Syria? The answers lie in the welfare organizations’ archives Denise Rein The mass Jewish emigration from Russia...

20th centuryAmericaColumnsIssue 45 | November 2018

Book review | Lincoln and the Jews

Elka Weber

Was Abraham Lincoln’s attitude to Jews just an extension of his genuine affection for all men, regardless of race or creed, or did it reflect a special regard for the people of the book? Marking...

19th centuryAmericaBook ReviewsColumnsIssue 26 | May 2015

America

Portrait of a People | Westward Ho!

Calling Henrietta – Henrietta Szold

Bar Mitzvas Coming of Age – Bar Mitzva

Warner Brothers’ Leading – Harry Warner

Progress or Truth – American Yiddish Press

Portrait of a People | Chilling Testimony

Sacred and Profane on the New York Yiddish Stage

Catalogue of Care – Julius Rosenwald

Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

From the Archives | Not Crying for Argentina

Book review | Lincoln and the Jews

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America

Portrait of a People | Westward Ho!

Calling Henrietta – Henrietta Szold

Bar Mitzvas Coming of Age – Bar Mitzva

Warner Brothers’ Leading – Harry Warner

Progress or Truth – American Yiddish Press

Portrait of a People | Chilling Testimony

Sacred and Profane on the New York Yiddish Stage

Catalogue of Care – Julius Rosenwald

Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

From the Archives | Not Crying for Argentina

Book review | Lincoln and the Jews

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