Job #AJO32372, Assistant Professor of American Jewish History, Department of History, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US

In 1654, the first Jews arrived in New Amsterdam. Sephardic refugees from Recife, Brazil, they came to the Dutch-controlled colony to escape the Spanish/Portuguese Inquisition. These 23 individuals be...

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Humanistic inquiry has long been energized by a desire to enmesh texts and ideas into the social, political, and material contexts in which they developed. The study of premodern Jews has likewise been driven by this desire—always on the lookout for new ways to move between the ideational and the real—to better understand texts and ideas as responses to and as shaping forces within a world of social interaction and conflict, materiality and spatiality, and the contingencies of lived experience.

"A short round dress of white muslin, with a rifle dress of green velvet ..."

White kid shoes with linen lining, high heels, and long buckle straps; England; 1775-1800.

Jewish women in colonial America led varied lives, with some occupying traditional roles as mothers and wives and others remaining single. Some ran their own businesses and others worked as servants f...

You Are Where You Live: Jews, Religion, and the New York Boardinghouse By Shari Rabin

On an average day under Trump, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody. In total, at least 500 babies and toddlers have been detained.

“I have heard of the persecution of the Jews in several European states and I venture to inform you that there is a country, the Dominican Republic, which has every prospect for the future.

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This is "Jews and the American Revolution with Dr. Jonathan Sarna and Dr. Laura Arnold Leibman" by Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love t...

In July 1938, American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) convened an international conference in the French town of Évian-les-Bains to facilitate the massive resettlement needs...

The first time I visited the half-Dutch, half-French island of St. Martin/St. Maarten in 1991, I heard that it once had a Jewish community. St. Maarten is a 36-square-mile island in the eastern Car…

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