WNCT

Timeline of Jewish history in the US

GREENVILLE, N.C. (Stacker.com) — One of the most compelling reasons for early settlers to immigrate to the Americas was to exercise their right to religious freedom. As a result, members of several ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

He wrote the book on American Jewish history. Stepping back from teaching, Jonathan Sarna says he has plenty of chapters still to go.

Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...
The Forward

It was the wildest scheme in American Jewish history. 200 years later, should it be remembered as a failure?

Exactly 200 years ago, on September 15, 1825, a self-governing Jewish colony was ceremonially dedicated on Grand Island in northern New York State, just a few miles downstream from Buffalo on the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

How scholar Hasia Diner exploded myths and changed the field of Jewish history: A symposium

Seven colleagues pay tribute to the New York University historian, soon to retire, who revealed “entirely new paradigms about the study of the past.” (JTA) — Hasia Diner, renowned scholar of American ...