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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Marc Randolph ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Benjamin Gitlow ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Squirrel Hill hasDemographicGroup Jewish Americans
David Geffen ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
William Cohen ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Ethan Coen ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Doug Emhoff ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Bernard Marcus ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Eleanor Audley ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Rick Rubin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Paddy Chayefsky ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Alex Bregman hasEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Jerry Fielding ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Robert Fogel ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Ryan Braun ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Alan Arkin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Charles Grodin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Annette Strauss ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Paul Cohen ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jessica Walter ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Benjamin G. Seixas ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Malvina Reynolds ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Albert Grossman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Noah Harpster ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Harry Cohn ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Mark Levine ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Helen Menken ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Tom Bosley ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Richard Loeb ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Frank Lautenberg ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
David Zimmerman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jill St. John ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Lionel Pincus ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Ed Koch ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Gertrude Berg ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Robert Evans ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jeffrey Goldberg ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Temple Emanu-El (former Fifth Avenue synagogue, New York City) associatedWith Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish community of New York City
Isidore Miller ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Alan Greenspan ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Burton Lane ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Mack David ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Alan Heim ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Damon Lindelof ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Peretz Rosenbaum ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Dustin Hoffman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Morton H. Meyerson ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Mara Wilson ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Louise Glück ethnicGroup Jewish Americans