Full of lofty ambitions, a museum focused on American Jews has put its faith in a new leader who comes from Israel. The reason that Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History ...

A new exhibition at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, in Philadelphia, spotlights the little-known ...

Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War? Sarna knows where the bodies are buried. Need a quote about Jews and bagels?

A new effort in Congress could lead to the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia becoming part of the Smithsonian — the institution behind many of the museums that line ...

In 2021, Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History was focused on survival. Fresh out of bankruptcy and no ...

This May, Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) will celebrate the inspiring history of Jewish Americans, serving as an antidote to antisemitism by amplifying the true, joyful, and powerful stories of ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The premier Jewish history museum in the United States may come under the umbrella of the Smithsonian, providing a level of financial security and distinction to an institution that ...

(RNS) — Late Tuesday (Dec. 3), the Senate unanimously passed a bill creating a commission to study the possibility of incorporating the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in ...

Seven colleagues pay tribute to the New York University historian, soon to retire, who revealed “entirely new paradigms about the study of the past.” (JTA) — Hasia Diner, renowned scholar of American ...

In late 2023, New York City Education Department officials approached historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela to be the lead scholar on a new curriculum focused on Jewish American history. The project ...

The annual award — which alternates each year between works of fiction and nonfiction and which honors emerging Jewish ...