American Jews and the American Story

Now & Then

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Society & Culture, History, News Commentary

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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How have Jewish Americans fought for their identities? And how have other American groups used Jews to define themselves? White House celebrations of the recent Passover holiday have sparked conversations over how Jewish identity interacts with broader American self-definitions. Heather and Joanne discuss the early American contention that indigenous Americans were the Lost Tribes of Israel, the controversy over Ulysses S. Grant’s treatment of Jewish Americans during the Civil War, and the U.S. reception of Anne Frank’s diary. Join CAFE Insider to listen to “Backstage,” where Heather and Joanne chat each week about the anecdotes and ideas that formed the episode. Head to: cafe.com/history For more historical analysis of current events, sign up for the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter, featuring Time Machine, a weekly article that dives into an historical event inspired by each episode of Now & Then: cafe.com/brief For references & supplemental materials, head to: cafe.com/now-and-then/american-jews-and-the-american-story Now & Then is presented by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is now and then.
1:18.8	I'm Heather Cox Richardson and I'm Joanne Freeman. Today we're going to be talking about a topic
1:24.7	that was inspired by something obvious and that is the fact that as we are here recording this
1:30.6	episode, it is the week of Passover. And so we thought that what we would do, particularly given
1:36.8	that we have now the first known second family to host a Passover Seder at the vice president's
1:43.6	residence on April 15th. The fact that for that very reason we have people thinking about
1:49.9	the place of Jews in America and the place of Jews fitting within and being deployed by people
1:56.3	in American politics, we thought that that's what we would address today and one way or another
2:00.5	would be not simply Jews in American history but really more broadly than that.
2:06.1	Ways in which people have turned to the Jews or looked at the Jews in a way that says something
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