American Jew

C8694
concept

An American Jew is a person in the United States who identifies as Jewish by religion, culture, ethnicity, or heritage, and whose Jewish identity is shaped by the social, political, and cultural context of American life.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
American Jew canonical 114
Jewish American 5
Jewish-American character 3

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: American Jew
Generated description
An American Jew is a person in the United States who identifies as Jewish by religion, culture, ethnicity, or heritage, and whose Jewish identity is shaped by the social, political, and cultural context of American life.

Instances (127)

Instance Via concept surface
Richard Alpert
Betty Comden
Ben Stiller
Bernie Brillstein
Mae Kwestel
surface form: Mae Questel
Jewish American
Pauline Newman Jewish American
Roger W. Straus Jr.
Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz
David Philipson
Louis Grossmann
Stanley Martin Lieber
Bessie Thomashefsky
Yitzhak Edward Asner
Michael Berenbaum
Jerome Silberman
Kathy Manning
Julius
surface form: Julius Kerwin Stein
Jeff Cohen
Joan Alexandra Molinsky
Milton
surface form: Milton Marx
Chico
surface form: Chico Marx
Lewis Maurice Schanfield
William Edward Crystal
Paul Germain
Herbert Manfred Marx
Jacob
surface form: Jacob Julius Garfinkle
Jewish American
Ira Eisenstein