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Hühner, Leon. " Jews in the legal and medical professions in America prior to 1800." Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, no. 22, 1914, pp. 147–65. ...
State Portrait Name Party Assumed office Left office Notes Georgia: David Emanuel [1]: Democratic-Republican: March 3, 1801: November 7, 1801: Emanuel may not have been an openly practicing Jew.
Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989), prominent anti-war activist during the 1960s counterculture movement, and member of the Chicago Seven; Judith Heumann (1947-2023), internationally recognized disability rights activist who was known as the "Mother of the Disability Rights Movement" David Horowitz (born 1939), conservative writer and activist
However, a 2007 study found that 15% of American Jews live below the poverty line; [158] the 2016 Pew study found that number to be 16%. [156] A 2019 study found 20% of American Jews to be in or near poverty, with 45% of Jewish children living in poor or near-poor households. [159]
In United States politics, the trends of Jews have changed political positions multiple times.Many early American German-Jewish immigrants to the United States tended to be politically conservative, but the wave of Eastern European Jews, starting in the early 1880s, were generally more liberal or left-wing, and eventually became the political majority. [1]
This is a list of notable Jewish Americans in the U.S. military. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans. Colonel Aaron Bank, founder of the Green Berets › archives › la-xpm-2004-apr-02-me-bank2-story.html; Mel Brooks, U.S. Army combat engineer during World War II who participated in the Battle of the Bulge. [1]
American Jews (Hebrew: יהודים אמריקאים, romanized: Yehudim Amerikaim) or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion. [4] According to a 2020 poll conducted by Pew Research , approximately two thirds of American Jews identify as Ashkenazi , 3% identify as Sephardic , and 1% ...
For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of American Jews. Actors (film and TV) & artists ... actress, The Middle TV series; Adiel Stein (born 1991), film actor (Stolen ...