e-TiM: Online Program
e-TiM: How Jews Became "American"
How Jews Became "American"
Drawing on little-known sources and vivid historical anecdotes, Zev Eleff explores key moments in the early American Jewish experience. We will begin with the arrival of Jews to New Amsterdam in 1654 and study the ways that the Jewish community formed and was transformed by the New World.
June 17:
New Amsterdam, New York, and the Atlantic Jewish Diaspora
June 24:
How did Colonial Jews Do Shabbat?
July 1:
When Philadelphia was the Jewish Capital of America
July 8:
The American Synagogue Revolution
July 15:
Charleston's Jews and the making of Orthodox Judaism
