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Twenty-three refugees from Brazil established the first Jewish community in the future U.S.

Falsely accused of murdering a girl, a Jewish man was killed by a white mob in Georgia in 1915.

The havurah movement and The Jewish Catalog blended Judaism with the 1960s counterculture.

Encouraging signs that the nascent U.S. would welcome Jews

"Freedom to observe, freedom to neglect," in the words of one 19th-century rabbi

In America around the turn of the 20th century, Jews had the freedom to not observe religion and rabbis were scarce.

Links to sites featuring curricular resources

How the market revolution helped bring Judaism to the American frontier.

Beyond the settler movement.

This Yiddish film and theater star had a versatile career and also did humanitarian work.