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Life in 20th Century America was not always kind to Jews. Thirteen U.S. synagogues were bombed between 1957 and 1977, Jewish Americans were disallowed from applying to many job openings

From the blog of Bonnie K. Goodman at The Times of Israel

Neo-Nazis rallied outside the first Broadway preview of Parade, a play about the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish man.

Part XI Steady Stream of Requests From Stephen Klein The pressure on Rabbi Baruch to keep the Vaad operation in Paris running efficiently, which was not helped by the constant requests originating from Vaad headquarters in New York, was enormous.

On April 19, 1775, the Patriots won the first Battles of Lexington and Concord By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS On this day in history, April 19, 1775, we marked the 246th anniversary of the launch of the American Revolution with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. In those battles, where the “shot heard round the world,” American rebels surprised the British regulars taking up arms and winning against the mighty Redcoats. If 1776 had the spirit of independence for American...

James Weldon Johnson (1876–1938), who wrote “Lift Ev’ry Voice” with his brother, composer J. Rosamond Johnson, was a poet, novelist, Broadway lyricist, civil rights activist, and diplomat. Johnson expressed a diverse range of views about different subjects, including the affinities between African-Americans and Jews. As Leonard Dinnerstein’s “Antisemitism in America” notes, in a 1918 essay published in The New York Age, an African American newspaper, Johnson wrote of “the two mi...

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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17.1 (2003) 62-88 The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945-1960 San Diego State University Abstract: Until the 1960s, many scholars assert, most Americans awareness of the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or inaccurate representations. Yet the extermination of the Jews was remembered in significant ways, this article posits, through World War II accounts, the Nuremberg trials, philosophical works, comparisons with Soviet totalitarianism, Christian an...