Jewish Americans

During World War II, the OSS sent Moe Berg to Europe, where he gathered intel on Germany's efforts to build an atomic bomb.

While most Jewish immigrants flocked to urban centers, a few -- like the Greenbergs -- tried their luck as homesteaders.

James McBride’s new novel tells a story of solidarity between Black and Jewish communities.

The records of a New York surveillance committee from the time of the First Red Scare document a radical world—and its demise.

A feminist perspective on the first and only female prime minister of Israel.

Two decades passed before the ghosts of the Rosenbergs came back to haunt Irving Kaufman, the judge who sentenced them to death.

Union soldiers improvised a Passover celebration near what's now Fayetteville, W.Va. They're being honored with a sign at the approximate site.

Immigrant housewives and the riots that shook New York City.

With Kanye and Kyrie Irving dominating the news, the connections between victims of white supremacy are more relevant than ever.

Felix Frankfurter was renowned as a liberal lawyer and advocate. Why did he turn out to be such a conservative Supreme Court justice?

Where did the behind-closed-doors racist garbage from some leading Los Angeles elected officials come from?

My mother’s desk connected me with our shared heritage.

In "A Nation of Descendants," Francesca Morgan traces the American use and abuse of genealogy from the Daughters of the American Revolution to Roots.

At the heart of my family tree are only questions and mysteries.

Some accounts suggest that the Passover Parade was even more glamorous than its famous counterpart, the Easter Parade.

A review of ”Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows” by Arthur Lubow.

The language sustained a Jewish diasporan secular culture. Today, that heritage survives in a gritty corner of Queens to be claimed by a new generation.

The Lehman Trilogy proposes that the downfall of a financial dynasty is enough to tell the economic and political history of America.

A conversation with the biographer of radical Jewish 'revenge theologian' Meir Kahane.

A sweeping new history traces the rise of characters caught in a Manichaean struggle between good and evil.