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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Eli Wallach ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Heather Dubrow ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
R. B. Kitaj ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Charles Kushner ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Martin Richards ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Michael Dell ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Arthur M. Sackler ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Shirley Marlin Noznisky ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Bryan Singer ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Jill Clayburgh ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Herbert Pulitzer ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
I.F. Stone ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Steven M. Rales ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Anita Pollitzer ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Aaron Spelling ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Shiri Appleby ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Thomas ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Thomas Jacob Black
Bebe Neuwirth ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Gell-Mann family hasEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Murray Gell-Mann
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Tony Pritzker hasEthnicity Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Jon Scheyer ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Norma Crane ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Valerie Curtin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Walter Bernstein ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Howie Epstein ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Dolph Schayes ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Adam Horovitz ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Peter Yarrow ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Lee Unkrich ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Hadassah Lieberman memberOf Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish community in the United States
Bernard Gerald Cantor ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Mary Livingstone ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Gary Cohn ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Ilene Chaiken ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Edna Ferber ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Harold Rosenberg ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Robert Klein ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
The Kangaroo Kid ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Billy Cunningham
Liesel Matthews ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
The King of Comedy ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Jerry Lewis
Sandy Climan hasEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Jerry Siegel ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Bernard Waldman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Myron ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Myron Leon Wallace
Lillian Wald ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Michael Henry de Young ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
J. Anthony Lukas hasEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
Myron Leon Wallace ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Dan Futterman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Salem Fields Cemetery foundedByCommunity Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: German-Jewish community of New York