The history of Jews in the United States is often told as if they immigrated, gained citizenship, and almost immediately achieved full legal rights. Yet this story fundamentally misses how citizenship worked for Jews and countless others who have arrived on American shores. Far from a settled point of arrival, citizenship involves a constant process of asking which groups belong and which do not.
In this talk, highlighting some of the most significant historical debates about Jewish belonging, Professor Lila Corwin Berman shows how the question of Jews’ status persistently linked them to other groups through the mutable yet consequential legal categories of race, nationality, and religion. The history of American Jewish citizenship provides necessary context for understanding today’s struggles over citizenship, rights, and belonging.
Presented by The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History and 70 Faces Media as we commemorate 250 years of the Jewish experience in America and explore the profound ways Jewish identity and the American story have shaped one another. Through a series of monthly conversations over the course of this year with the nation’s leading historians, we will journey from the arrival of the first colonial settlers to the vibrant, diverse communities of the modern era.
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