Jewish Americans

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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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
religious community
contributedTo American arts and entertainment
American civil rights movement
American culture
United States politics
surface form: 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
Jews
surface form: Israeli Jews

Mizrahi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews
surface form: 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 (Judeo-Spanish)
surface form: Ladino

Yiddish
majorSettlement Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston

Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: 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
Humanistic Judaism
surface form: Secular Judaism
subgroupOf Jewish Americans self-linksurface differs
surface form: American Jews
subjectOf studies in American religious history
studies in diaspora studies
studies in ethnic studies

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Emma Lazarus memberOf Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jewish community
Mendes J. Cohen ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jared Polis ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Adam Brody ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Eugene Meyer ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Fred Friendly ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Samuel Sachs ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Paulie Litt ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Danielle Fishel ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Anson Williams ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Leo Kahn ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Alan King ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
David L. Lander ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Edgar M. Lazarus ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Hilda Morley ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Paula Vogel ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Nora Kaye ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Howard Metzenbaum ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Bob Saget ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Boyle Heights historicalEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Laura Kean Zametkin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Laura Z. Hobson
Helen Slater ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Mel Allen ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Louise Linder Eastman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Carl Levin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Margo Lion ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Mitch Leigh ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Tony Randall ethnicGroup Jewish Americans