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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Bob Kane ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Tony Martin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Chester Kallman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Herb Alpert ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
June Allyson ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Robert Shaye ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Bret Stephens ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Ellen Goodman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Shari Redstone ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Seymour Hersh hasEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Simon Ramo ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Ben Hecht ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Soviet Jewry movement involvedCommunity Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Let My People Go movement especiallyActiveAmong Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Jussie Smollett ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Mildred Spiewak ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Morris Berg ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Arthur Fiedler ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Natalie Schafer ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
David Belasco ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Gene Dresselhaus hasEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Allan Huber Selig ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Grant Heslov ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Howard Sackler ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Lynne Hollander ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Benjamin Dreyfuss ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Zosia Mamet ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jonah Hill ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Sydney Pollack ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Marc Maron ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Sam Treiman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
George Wein ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Lester Crown ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Eddie Constantine ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Annie Nathan Meyer ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
M. H. de Young ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Eliot Spitzer heritage Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Fairfax District hasCulturalHeritage Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American culture
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger was publisher of The New York Times ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
this entity surface form: American Jews
Susan Downey ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Wallace Berman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Arthur Hays Sulzberger ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
May McAvoy ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Judith Butler ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Sunny Sandler ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jill Stein ethnicity Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Harry Reems ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
David Paymer ethnicGroup Jewish Americans