The American Turn in Modern Jewish History - The 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies August 6-10, 2017

Since the celebrations of 2004-2005, marking 350 years of the American Jewish experience, there has been a remarkable flourishing in the writing and presentation of American Jewish history in the U.S. The scholarly field, as opposed to the amateur one, began to emerge in 1954, a product of the 300th anniversary of Jewish settlement in America. This time, the vitality of the field, in scholarly and also public history dimensions, combined with the transnational turn in historiography suggests that modern Jewish history has seen an "American turn."