Jews were present in the Thirteen Colonies since the mid-17th century. However, they were small in number, with at … See more

As of 2020, the American Jewish population is, depending on the method of identification, either the largest in the world, or the second-largest in the world (after Israel).
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Jewishness in the United States is considered an ethnic identity as well as a religious one. See ethnoreligious group.
The American Jews' majority continues to identify themselves with Judaism and its main traditi… See more

Today, American Jews are a distinctive and influential group in the nation's politics. Jeffrey S. Helmreich writes that the ability of American Jews to effect this through political or financial clout is overestimated, that the pri… See more

Since the time of the last major wave of Jewish immigration to America (over 2,000,000 Jews from Eastern Europe who arrived between 1890 and 1924), Jewish secular culture in the United States has become int… See more

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• Farber, Roberta Rosenberg; Waxman, Chaim I., eds. (1999). Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader. Waltham, Ma: Brandeis University Press. ISBN 9780874518993.
• Feingold, Henry L., ed. (1992). Th… See more