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Above all, Schiff believed that American Jewry could live in both the Jewish and American worlds, creating a balance that made possible an enduring American Jewish community. [ 76 ] The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), founded in Chicago in 1893, promoted philanthropy and the Americanization of newly arrived Jewish women.
"American Jewish Physicians During the Era of Medical Professionalization, 1850–1950" (PhD Dissertation, Fordham University; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025. 31768388). Simon, Sydney M. “History of Jewish Physicians in the United States Up to About 1900,” Annals of Medical History 7, no. 3 (May 1935):285-29
The Middle Colonies were a subset of the ... There was a Jewish community already established in New York from 1654 (when it was still New Amsterdam), and Jews ...
Salomon was involved in Jewish community affairs, being a member of Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, and in 1782 made the largest individual donation toward the construction of its main building. In 1783, Salomon was among the prominent Jews involved in the successful effort to have the Pennsylvania Council of Censors remove the ...
The ancestry of most American Jews goes back to Ashkenazi Jewish communities that immigrated to the US in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as more recent influxes of Persian and other Mizrahi Jewish immigrants. The American Jewish community is considered to contain the highest percentage of mixed marriages between Jews and non ...
The Middle Colonies consisted of the present-day states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and were characterized by a large degree of religious, political, economic, and ethnic diversity. [59] The Dutch colony of New Netherland was taken over by the English and renamed New York.
Joseph Jacobs, [16] editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia; Gabriel Kolko; Bernard Lewis [17] Deborah Lipstadt [18] John Lukacs, Hungarian-born historian [19] Erwin Panofsky [20] Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy [21] Meyer Schapiro [22] Rosa Levin Toubin, historian of Jewish Texan history [23] Barbara Tuchman [24] Ron Unz, historian and ...
Medieval French Jewish vassal state, 768–900 CE (purportedly established during the Reconquista) Brutakhi, early 13th century Turkic polity whose Jewishness is debatable; possibly either a Khazar remnant state or Jewish splinter state from the Cuman-Kipchak Confederation