There have been Jewish communities in the United States since colonial times, with individuals living in various cities before the American Revolution. Early Jewish communities were primarily composed of Sephardi immigrants … See more

Luis de Carabajal y Cueva, a Spanish conquistador and converso first set foot in what is now Texas in 1570. The first Jewish-born person to set foot on American soil was See more

Following traditional religious and cultural teachings about improving a lot of their brethren, Jewish residents in the United States began to … See more

Chicago, Illinois
The first Jews to settle in Chicago after its 1833 incorporation were Ashkenazi. In the late 1830s and … See more

The Jewish population of the U.S. is the product of waves of immigration primarily from diaspora communities in Europe; emigration was initially inspired by the pull of American social and entrepreneurial opportunities, and later was a refuge from the peril of ongoing See more

By the beginning of the Revolutionary War in 1776, around 2,000 Jews lived in the British North American colonies, most of them Sephardic Jews who immigrated from the Dutch … See more

Immigration of Ashkenazi Jews
None of the early migratory movements assumed the significance and volume of that from See more