American Jews

Boston's most prominent 18th Jewish citizen, Hays set a high standard for civic leadership and charity.

Mordecai Manuel Noah tried to found a Jewish colony on Grand Island until the Jews regained possession of the Holy Land.

The AJHS was founded to document the many contributions Jews have made in America.

Minnie Low was a thinker well ahead of her time.

Ruth Gruber witnessed the former American pleasure boat, the Exodus, entering the Haifa harbor and the terrible conditions that the displaced Jews on Cyprus lived in.

Fiorello LaGuradia was a defender of the Jews and a strong opponent of Hitler.

Judah Touro set the standard for Jewish American philanthropy by generously donating money to synagogues and other Jewish organizations.

The Levy-Franks family struggled with the ever-present challenge of maining a strong Jewish identity in a secular society.

A group of Protestant clergymen decided their new mission would be to convert European Jews and settling them in a rural agricultural community.

Solomon Bibo won the trust of the Acoma Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, and in 1888 he became governor of the Acoma Pueblo.

On April 11, 1649, Tomas Trevino de Sobremonte was burned at the stake in Mexico City, a victim of the Inquisition. His crime: practicing the rites and ceremonies of the

The Jew who fought beside John Brown