Category: Jewish History
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The Jewish American Experience – Part 10 The Jewish Roots of Rock and Roll
On a fateful day in 1955, Phil Chess would meet a young performer named Chuck Berry and the rock and roll revolution would begin.
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The Jewish American Experience – Part 9 The Jewish Psychologists
From Sigmund Freud to Dr. Ruth, how Jews invented the science of psychology.
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The Jewish American Experience – Part 8 The Jewish Comic Book Guys
The Unlikely Origins of America’s Comic Book Industry,
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The Jewish American Experience – Part 7 The Men Who Made the Atomic Bomb
The story behind Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein and the Manhattan Project.
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The Jewish American Experience – Part 6 Jewish Tough Guys
From the Third Wave of Jewish immigrants circa 1880 until the modern era, Jews were an integral part of both organized crime and boxing.
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The Jewish American Experience – Part 5 Laughing Through the Tears
In the past, Jews were laughed at, not with. Yet today, by some counts, 80% of professional comedians are Jewish. How did this happen?
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The Jewish American Experience – Part 4 “You Oughta Be In Pictures”
This paper focuses on how today’s modern Hollywood was started by a group of Jewish financiers and entrepreneurs.
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The Jewish American Experience – Part 3 The Making of Broadway
Part 3 of the Jewish American Experience focuses on the contributions of Jewish producers, actors and playwrights on modern American theater.
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The Jewish American Experience – Part 2 The Cry for Social Justice
The Jewish commitment to Social Justice has its roots in the Bible. From our earliest days in this new, American land it was a key part of opur expience.
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The Jewish American Experience – Part 1 of a series on the history of Jews in America.
Coming to America, the early days of our American experience. Download the PDF
Larry Kuperman 