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.

All labels observed (13)

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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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David B. Cornstein ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Seymour Durst ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Jeffrey Brotman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Summer Phoenix ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jon Favreau ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Jules Irving ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Bennett Cerf ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
William Friedkin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Jared Kushner ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Carl Gottlieb ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Joe Lieberman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Howard Ashman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Noel Blanc heritage Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Arthur Rothstein ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Joe Simon ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
David E. Lilienthal ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
David T. Nederlander ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Harold Ramis ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Stephen Tobolowsky ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Taubman family ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
E. Y. Harburg ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Laura Z. Hobson ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Leon Lederman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Garfinkle ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: John Garfield
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Sam Raimi ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Rudin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Scott Rudin
Robert Wuhl ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Sophie von Haselberg ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Justin Hurwitz ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Richard L. Simon ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Benny Blanco ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Todd Haynes ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Edwin Rosskam hasEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Amy Irving ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Betty Comden ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Adrienne Rich ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Arthur J. Goldberg ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Ben Stiller ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Sanford I. Weill ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Anna Schwartz ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Peggy Lipton ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Nikki Reed ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
David Friedman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: David Benioff
Louisa Gross Horwitz ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Joey Newman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Lou Adler ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Brett Ratner ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Millicent Siegel ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Crystal ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Billy Crystal
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Ralph J. Roberts ethnicGroup Jewish Americans