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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Violet Ramis Stiel ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Paula Weinstein ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Diane Arbus hasEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Matty Malneck ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Blake Bashoff ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Monica Lewinsky ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
American Jewish Congress Stephen S. Wise Award associatedWith Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jewish community
Yip ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Sheldon Harnick ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jenny Lumet ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jerry Zucker ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Barbara Rubin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Carl Solomon ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Sidney Finkelstein ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Barry Mann ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Bonnie Franklin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jennifer Michelle Goodwin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Goodwin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Ginnifer Goodwin
Calvin Trillin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Kate Paley ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
James Cayne ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Harold Norse ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Joel Oppenheimer ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Nick Kroll ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Morton DaCosta ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Francis E. Low ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Jerry Lester ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Robert Nathan ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: American Jews
Suzanne Pleshette ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Joseph B. Bloomingdale ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Larry Eigner ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Elizabeth Berkley ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jac Holzman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Adrienne Arsht hasEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
Fannie Hurst ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Rita Wallach Morgenthau ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg
Morey Amsterdam ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Abraham Polonsky ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Paul Francis Webster ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Joan Micklin Silver ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
William Novak ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Allan N. Weiss ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Midler family ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Bette Midler
Arye Gross ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Seymour Cassel ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Radner ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Gilda Radner
Michael Feinstein ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Eric Douglas ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Isaac Herbert Kempner ethnicGroup Jewish Americans