Primary Theme: American Jewish History
“Among Neighbors” Film Screening and Q&A with Filmmaker, Yoav Potash
RESERVE YOUR TICKET HERE. Award-winning film to have its Louisiana premiere at The Broad Theater on Monday, March 9 at 7pm with the filmmaker in
The Oxford Handbook of American Jewish History
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Though never more than a tiny percentage of the population, Jews have been persistent–if perplexing–participants in the American community at least since they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. This volume creates a vibrant dialogue among the varied approaches to the study of American Jews, taking stock of the field and working to move it forward in conversation with American history and modern Jewish history. Its authors are drawn from the ranks of the senior scholars who pioneered American Jewish history, often from the vantage point of other areas of study, as well as younger scholars, both those trained as historians and those studying American Jews from other disciplines. The Handbook will act as a guide for outside scholars looking to understand American Jews and for those within American Jewish history interested in up-to-date accounts of key themes in the field. Its essays explore a variety of conceptual frameworks that have been and continue to be important for understanding American Jews and move forward into the arena of American Jewish studies, highlighting how new methodologies can enhance scholarly understandings. Taken as a whole, the Oxford Handbook of American Jewish History makes a compelling case for the importance of this community for American and world histories.
Rottman Family Lecture 2026: Pamela Nadell Book Talk, “Antisemitism: An American Tradition”
RSVP HERE Join us on February 26 at 6:00 PM at Touro Synagogue for a Book Talk with historian, Pamela Nadell, author of “Antisemitism, an
Jewish American & Holocaust Literature Symposium
More information here The Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Association (JAHLit) is a subsidiary organization of the American Literature Association. Comprised of an international body of
Book Talk: Antisemitism, an American Tradition
RESERVE TICKETS HERE Join author Pamela S. Nadell in conversation with Franklin Foer of The Atlantic, September 29th, 2025 at 7pm Eastern. In Antisemitism, an American Tradition, scholar
Audrey G. Ratner Speaker Series: A Credit to the Nation: The Lost World of East European Jewish Immigrant ‘Bankers,’ 1873-1930 with Dr. Rebecca Kobrin
How different would the central narrative of American Jewish immigration history sound if we invited its commercial practices to center stage? Between 1870 and 1930 thousands of East European Jewish immigrant businessmen set up financial enterprises called immigrant banks that not only shaped mass Jewish migration from Eastern Europe but American finance as well. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on court cases, the foreign language press, business records, and memoirs, Rebecca Kobrin’s talk highlights the central role East European Jewish immigrant entrepreneurs played on both sides of the Atlantic.
A Credit to the Nation: The Lost World of East European Jewish Immigrant ‘Bankers,’ 1873-1930 with Dr. Rebecca Kobrin
Located at 43 Newcomb Place, 3rd Floor of The Commons at Tulane University How different would the central narrative of American Jewish immigration history sound
American Jewish Literature Working Group
The American Jewish Literature Working Group of the Grant Center at Tulane convened at the suggestion of Michael Cohen, and has been co-organized by Maeera
Rottman Family Lecture: The Art of the Jewish Family with Laura Arnold Leibman
WATCH EVENT RECORDING Part of the TAWANI Foundation Audrey G. Ratner Speaker Series In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned
America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? Dr. Pamela S. Nadell explores her groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. Dr. Nadell’s book won the National Jewish Book Award–Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year.