Whether or not they are historians, Jewish Americans are taught from an early age about the importance of knowing one’s history. Knowing history is for the sake of the future of the Jewish past.

Yet Alcatraz, for all its cruelty and bad karma, has been a recurrent theme in American Jewish history and culture. When Alcatraz opened in 1934, Rabbi Rudolph Coffee, a pioneering chaplain in ...

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By Benjamin Moser Benjamin Moser is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Sontag: Her Life and Work” and a forthcoming history of Jewish anti-Zionists. April 13, 2025 According to the ...