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Jewish American Heritage Month (May)

Library Databases

Research Areas

Race, Whiteness, and Jewish Identity

  • Main idea: How Jewish Americans are racialized and where they fit within U.S. ideas of whiteness and race.
  • Keywords: Jews and race; whiteness; Jews of color; racial identity

Antisemitism and Campus/Political Climates

  • Main idea: How antisemitism appears today in politics, online spaces, and campus life, and how it affects Jewish communities.
  • Keywords: antisemitism; hate speech; campus climate; online hate

Israel, Zionism, and American Jewish Life

  • Main idea: How American Jews relate to Israel and Zionism, and how those views shape identity and community debates.
  • Keywords: American Jews and Israel; Zionism; diaspora; U.S.–Israel relations

Intermarriage, Family, and Religious Practice

  • Main idea: How intermarriage and changing family patterns reshape Jewish identity, community, and religious life.
  • Keywords: intermarriage; mixed‑faith families; Jewish identity; religious practice

Jews, Ethnic Studies, and Multiracial Coalitions

  • Main idea: How Jewish experiences fit in ethnic studies and DEI frameworks, and how Jews build or struggle with coalitions across groups.
  • Keywords: Jews and DEI; ethnic studies; Black–Jewish relations; coalitions

Jewish Americans, Migration, and Diaspora Histories

  • Main idea: How past and present migrations to the U.S. shape American Jewish communities, memory, and belonging.
  • Keywords: Jewish immigration; diaspora; American Jewish history; refugees

Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Jewish Studies

  • Main idea: How feminism and LGBTQ+ perspectives transform Jewish texts, rituals, and communal norms.
  • Keywords: Jewish feminism; LGBTQ+ Jews; queer Judaism; gender roles
  • Main idea: How Jews and Judaism are represented in American literature, film, TV, and digital media, and why those images matter.
  • Keywords: Jews in film and TV; Jewish humor; stereotypes; popular culture

Religion, Secularism, and Spiritual Practice

  • Main idea: How Jewish Americans move along a spectrum from secular/cultural to religious, and navigate being a minority in a Christian‑dominant society.
  • Keywords: secular Jews; spirituality; denominations; religious pluralism

Jewish Studies, Archives, and Memory

  • Main idea: How scholarship, archives, and museums shape Jewish memory, identity, and the stories that get preserved.
  • Keywords: Jewish archives; collective memory; Holocaust memory; public history