Jewish Americans

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ethnic group religious community

Jewish Americans are U.S. citizens or residents of Jewish heritage who form a diverse religious and ethnic community with significant cultural, political, and social influence in American life.

Aliases (6)

Statements (79)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ethnic group → religious community →
contributedTo	American arts and entertainment → American civil rights movement → American culture → American politics → American science and technology →
country	United States of America →
culturalInstitution	Hebrew school → Jewish community center → Jewish day school → Jewish federations → Jewish philanthropic organizations → synagogue →
culturalPractice	Jewish education → kosher dietary laws (for some) → observance of Jewish holidays → synagogue attendance →
ethnicOrigin	Ashkenazi Jews → Ethiopian Jews → Israeli Jews → Mizrahi Jews → Russian Jews → Sephardi Jews →
fieldOfActivity	academia → business → civil rights activism → entertainment → finance → journalism → law → literature → medicine → music → philanthropy → politics → science → visual arts →
hasCharacteristic	culturally diverse → diaspora community → ethno-religious group → minority group → religiously diverse →
hasIssue	experience of antisemitism in the United States →
historicalMigration	Eastern Europe → Germany → Middle East → North Africa → Poland → Russia →
historicalMigrationWave	early 20th century → late 19th century → post-Soviet era → post–World War II →
language	English → Hebrew → Ladino → Yiddish →
majorSettlement	Boston → Chicago → Los Angeles → Miami → New York City → Philadelphia → Washington, D.C. →
politicalActivity	high voter participation →
politicalOrientation	diverse →
populationEstimate	several million →
religion	Judaism →
religiousDenomination	Conservative Judaism → Humanistic Judaism → Orthodox Judaism → Reconstructionist Judaism → Reform Judaism → Secular Judaism →
subgroupOf	American Jews →
subjectOf	studies in American religious history → studies in diaspora studies → studies in ethnic studies →

Referenced by (115)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A. G. Sulzberger → Abraham Maslow ("Jewish American") → Adrienne Rich ("Jewish American") → Al Michaels → Alan Jay Lerner → Amy Irving → Anna Schwartz → Arline Greenbaum → Arthur J. Goldberg → Arthur Rothstein → Ben Stiller → Benjamin Gitlow → Bennett Cerf → Benny Blanco → Bernard M. Baruch → Bernard Marcus → Betty Comden → Billy Crystal ("Jewish American") → Brett Ratner → Bugsy Siegel → Carl Gottlieb → Clive Davis → Dan Snyder → David B. Cornstein → David Benioff → David E. Lilienthal → David Geffen → David T. Nederlander ("American Jews") → Doug Emhoff → Durst family → E. Y. Harburg → Eleanor Audley → Esta Krakower → Ethan Coen ("Jewish American") → Felicia Schiff Warburg → Gabriel A. Almond → George Gershwin ("American Jews") → Gerald Guralnik → Harold Ramis → Harvey Weinstein → Henry Morgenthau Jr. → Howard Ashman → Jack Weinberg → Jamie Bernstein ("American Jews") → Jared Kushner ("Jewish American") → Jay Black ("Jewish American") → Jeffrey Brotman → Jerry Fielding → Joe Lieberman ("American Jews") → Joe Simon → Joel Elias Spingarn → Joey Newman → John Garfield ("Jewish American") → Jon Favreau ("Jewish American") → Jules Irving → Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("Jewish American") → Julius J. Epstein → Justin Hurwitz → Kevin Glazer → Larry King ("American Jews") → Laura Z. Hobson → Leon Lederman → Lisa Kron → Lou Adler → Louis D. Brandeis ("Jewish American") → Louisa Gross Horwitz → Malcolm Glazer ("Jewish American") → Marc Randolph ("Jewish American") → Max Weinberg → Melville J. Herskovits → Millicent Siegel → Milton Friedman ("Jewish American") → Moe Berg ("Jewish American") → Nikki Reed ("Jewish American") → Norman Lear → Paddy Chayefsky ("Jewish American") → Paul Rand ("Jewish American") → Peggy Lipton → Penny Marshall ("Jewish American") → Rahm Emanuel → Ralph J. Roberts → Richard L. Simon → Richard Schiff → Rick Rubin → Robert Fogel ("Jewish American") → Robert Wuhl → Roy Lichtenstein → Ryan Braun → Sam Raimi → Samuel Goldwyn Jr. → Sanford I. Weill → Sara Dylan → Scott Rudin → Seymour Durst ("American Jews") → Sid Luft → Sophie von Haselberg → Stephen A. Schwarzman → Stephen Tobolowsky ("Jewish American") → Summer Phoenix → Susan Silver ("Jewish American") → Taubman family → Todd Haynes → Vanessa Trump → William Cohen → William Friedkin ("Jewish American") →	ethnicGroup
Alex Bregman ("Jewish American") → Edwin Rosskam ("American Jews") →	hasEthnicGroup
American Jewish Congress ("American Jewish community") →	affiliation
Eugene Borowitz ("North American Jewish community") →	areaOfInfluence
Squirrel Hill →	hasDemographicGroup
Middle Eastern American ("Jewish American") →	hasReligiousComponent
Noel Blanc ("Jewish American") →	heritage
Wexner family ("North American Jewish communities") →	impactArea
Knowing Too Much ("American Jews and Israel") →	mainSubject
Jewish Americans ("American Jews") →	subgroupOf