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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Ted Raimi ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Vivian Blaine ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Fisher Stevens ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Larry Blyden ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Jerry Wald ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
David Amram ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Irene Mayer ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Valerie Harper ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Gabriel Heatter ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Betty Friedan ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
David Arquette ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Laraine Newman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Marc Mezvinsky ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Alfred Haskell Conrad ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Leon Levy ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Seryl Kushner ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Tracy Pollan ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
James Goldman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Gershon Kekst ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Fran Lebowitz ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Arlene Weiss (Arlene Alda) ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Arlene Alda
Larry Miller ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Julie Kavner hasEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Buzz Bissinger ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Leonard Gershe ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Byrne Piven ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Muriel Rukeyser ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Camryn Manheim ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Irvin Kershner ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Jack Schwartzman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Philip ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Philip Roth
this entity surface form: American Jews
Allen Garfield ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Joey Sagal ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Lilyan Tashman ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Scooter Braun ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Landra Gould ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Anita Morris ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Betty Lou Gerson ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Caroline Aaron ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Michael Kanin ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Rosalind Harris ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Alma Morgenthau ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Laurie Tisch ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
this entity surface form: Jewish American
Fred Ebb ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Daniel Fuchs ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Bill Cayton ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Mel Wulf hasEthnicGroup Jewish Americans
Lin Shaye ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
Ratner ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
subject surface form: Brett Ratner
Nicole Krauss ethnicGroup Jewish Americans