Jewish immigrants

While some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine, the Jewish Territorial Organization fixed its hopes on Galveston.

From kosher butchers, fruit peddlers, and herring dealers on the Lower East Side to supermarket innovators across the country

Josie Rudolph’s life, in an era of worldwide migration and colonial ambition, offers a new perspective on the familiar tale of modern Alaska’s birth.

"Frustratingly, Talmudically, Jewish food is simply what Jews eat," she writes.

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

The history of Sephardic Jews challenges our ideas about race in America.

Immigrant housewives and the riots that shook New York City.

Jews from the Ottoman Empire pioneered the Christmas lights market a century ago — but nativism, antisemitism and islamophobia obscured this history.

That status has been taken as obvious, then questioned, then reasserted over the decades.

A discussion of the booming 19th-century trade in scrap metal.

Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations are part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics.

Kushner was a top official in a Trump administration that sharply restricted immigration and refugee admissions. His grandparents were Holocaust refugees.

Jews in the industry called for the Academy Museum to highlight the men who created the movie business. A voice in my head went, Uh-oh.

Even as the primary targets of immigration restrictionism have shifted, the consequences for immigrants remain profoundly shaped by the system created in 1924.

Norman Mailer’s generation learned to “write like men.” But their female contemporaries from Mary McCarthy to Diana Trilling pioneered a more enduring style.

It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.

From the 1880s to the 1940s, New York City was transformed—and so too was the New York City Police Department.

The representation of Jews in antebellum popular culture reveals that many Americans found them both cartoonishly villainous and enticingly exotic.

Though his younger brother Isaac Bashevis Singer eventually eclipsed him, Israel Joshua Singer excelled at showing characters buffeted by the tides of history.

Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose is the latest example of the struggles around Jewish representation on the stage and screen.

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

Conservative Judaism’s origins lie in a donor plan to neutralize and refine the radical Jewish immigrant masses.

Evangelicalism and the more liberal “mainline” Protestantism must be understood in a dialectical relationship to one another, rather than in isolation.

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

A stubborn and surprising immigrant enclave, hiding in plain sight on the Lower East Side.

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

Theresa Malkiel fled persecution in Russia and ended up in a New York sweatshop.

The revolutionary may have tried to find my grandfather by raiding a New Mexico village—but a friend’s camera truly captured our family patriarch.

East European Jews and the lost world of immigrant banking.

Utopia Parkway, which slices through the most diverse borough in New York, began as a dream of cooperative housing for poor Jewish immigrants.