The Jewish Americans : three centuries of Jewish voices in America

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Part One: They came to stay (1654-1880)

A plea for Jewish rights in the new nation: Jonas Phillips

"To bigotry no sanction": correspondence between George Washington and the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island

A mother bemoans her daughter's marriage: Abigail Franks

The challenge of Jewish observance in colonial America: Rebecca Samuel

Jewish self-defense in post-Revolutionary America: Benjamin Nones

A refuge for Jews in upstate New York: Mordecai Noah

Changing Judaism in America: the Reformed Society of Israelites

Diary of a Jewish peddler: Abraham Kohn

Women's role in Jewish education: Rebecca Gratz

The architect of reform Judaism: Isaac Mayer Wise

A Jewish colonel in the Civil War: Marcus Spiegel

A Union soldier's Passover seder: J.A. Joel

Response to General Grant's Order No. 11: Isaac Leeser

Pioneer of the American West: Anna Freudenthal Solomon

From immigrant to department store owner: Isidor Straus

Success and exclusion: Joseph Seligman

Sidebar 1: Emma Lazarus, "In the Jewish synagogue at Newport"

Sidebar 2: Isaac Leeser's Catechism for Jewish Children (1839)

Part Two: A world of their own (1880-1924)

The journey to America: Alexander Harkavy

Going West: Rachel Calof

Landsmanshaftn: Jewish Hometown Societies

Making it in America: Jacob Sholtz

Voice of the immigrant Jewish community: Abraham Cahan

Advice for Jewish immigrants: the Bintel Brief

An immigrant Jewish girl from Poland: Sadie Frowne

Jewish women organize: Hannah G. Solomon

A baseball primer for Jewish immigrants

Organizing the workers: Clara Lemlich

Protesting lives lost: Rose Schneiderman

Popular idol of the Yiddish stage: Boris Thomashefsky

The Jewish King Lear: Jacob Adler

A life devoted to anarchism: Emma Goldman

Jewish women on strike: the Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902

Standard-bearer of conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter

Making Zionism an American movement: Louis D. Brandeis

Founder of Hadassah: Henrietta Szold

Philanthropist and communal leader: Jacob Schiff

The lynching of Leo Frank

Sidebar 1: Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus"

Sidebar 2: Morris Rosenfeld, "My Little Boy" [Mein Yingele]. Part Three: The best of times, the worst of times (1924-1945)

Lifelong socialist: Irving Howe

Writer and feminist: Vivian Gornick

Jewish quotas at Harvard: an exchange between Alfred A. Benesch and A. Lawrence Lowell

Communal leader: Louis Marshall

Founder of Reconstructionist Judaism: Mordecai M. Kaplan

Crafting an American orthodoxy: Bernard Revel

Creator of The Goldbergs: Gertrude Berg

Star of Yiddish theater and film: Molly Picon

Studio mogul: Jack Warner

Red-hot mama: Sophie Tucker

Jewish baseball icon: Hank Greenberg

Businessman and philanthropist: Julius Rosenwald

"Is there a Jewish point of view?": Albert Einstein

Rabbi and activist: Stephen S. Wise

Advocate for rescue: Henry Morgenthau, Jr

Witness to history: Ruth Gruber

Sidebar 1: Irving Berlin and Edgar Leslie, "Sadie Salome Go Home!"

Sidebar 2: Selection from Jewish Home Beautiful

Sidebar 3: Edgar A. Guest, "Speaking of Greenberg"

Part Four: Home (1945-Present)

A World War II soldier writes home: Joseph Feivish

Commentary

a magazine for postwar Jewry: Elliot Cohen

Jewish Miss America: Bess Myerson

America's relationship to the new state of Israel: Jacob Blaustein

A difference of opinion on the death sentence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Pioneer of television comedy: Sid Caesar

Fifty years of comedy: Carl Reiner

Theologian and activist: Abraham Joshua Heschel

Feminist pioneer: Betty Friedan

Dual identities: Julius Lester

Reflections of America's first woman rabbi: Sally Priesand

Jewish feminist pioneers: Ezrat Nashim

The freedom seder: Arthur Waskow

An American, a Jew, a writer by trade: Saul Bellow

Political playwright: Tony Kushner

Supreme Court Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Humorist and columnist: Art Buchwald

Sidebar 1: Lenny Bruce, "Jewish and Goyish"

Sidebar 2: The Freedom Seder