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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Ron Rifkin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Allie Sherman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Michael Mukasey ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Judith Kaye ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Herbert Aptheker ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Al Davis ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Susan Sontag ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
David Axelrod hasEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
David Gest ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
James Peck ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Jonathan Mann ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
George Segal ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Esther Bubley ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Theodore N. Lerner ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Samuel Untermyer ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Stubby Kaye ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
David S. Kaufman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Raymond Rosenthal ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Lorenz Hart ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Goldie Hawn ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Harvey Milk ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Chuck Lorre ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Mike Todd ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Stanley Edgar Hyman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Tim Blake Nelson ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Lee Mendelson ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Kurt Eichenwald hasEthnicity Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
William Klein ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
G. Albert Lansburgh ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Sylvia Sidney ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Murray Feshbach ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Florence Bates ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel Is Coming to an End mainSubject Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Jerome Robbins ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Rodney Dangerfield ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Ronald S. Lauder ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
The Future of the American Jew focusesOn Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jewry
The Future of the American Jew intendedAudience Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Bill Goldberg ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Marion Levy ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Paulette Goddard
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Ray Danton ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jay Livingston ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
David Harris ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Alan Dershowitz ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Andrew Lauren ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Annie Leibovitz ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Betty Garrett ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jerome Chodorov ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Corey Allen ethnicGroup Jewish Americans