Documenting American
Jewish Communities

Nov 2: Are Jews an Ethnic Group?

Event: California now lets Jews identify themselves as Jewish when answering questions about ethnicity. Is this a good thing, or will there be unintended consequences?

September Research: All Over the Map

New Research About American Jews + Jewish Community Studies, Mapped

Counting California Jews

7 perspectives on the implications of enshrining Jewishness as a demographic category in CA and beyond

Above Averages: Prizmah’s Day School Research Machine

Interview with Odelia Epstein

America: Always a Little Jewish

The American Jewish Historical Society Examines and Exhibits 250 Years of Jews in America

Excavating the Jewish Left

Q&A with Molly Crabapple

Antisemitism in the Archive

Interview with historian Britt Tevis

The Iran War, Outside the Box

Q&A with Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh

Together Against ICE

Jewish Action in Minneapolis Rekindles Once-Frayed Community Alliances

The Antisemitism Beat

Interview with Arno Rosenfeld, the Forward’s antisemitism reporter

Hidden Jewish Voices

Q&A with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela about the new NYC Public School resource for understanding American Jews’ contributions to US History

Democracy and Antisemitism

An Interview with Jonathan Jacoby of the Nexus Project

Understanding America’s Sephardic & Mizrahi Jews

Q&A with Sarah Levin, Executive Director of JIMENA

Looking Forward

Q&A with Lisa Kay Solomon, author, strategic foresight designer, and Designer in Residence and Lecturer at Stanford d.school

Church, State, Jews

Interview with Rachel Laser, CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Jewish Moguls at the Museum

And interview with New Yorker writer Michael Schulman

Recent Essays

September Research: All Over the Map

Documensch Newsletter

Counting California Jews

Documensch August Research

Documensch Newsletter

Above Averages: Prizmah’s Day School Research Machine

Documensch Summer Research

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America: Always a Little Jewish

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