Episode 2: The lost history of American Jews

Haviv Rettig Gur

Published on February 18, 2025

American Jews constitute the biggest, wealthiest, most influential and safest Jewish diaspora community in Jewish history, and also among the most Jewishly illiterate and profoundly anxious about their future.

There’s a good reason this immense and powerful community is also culturally weak and unsure of itself. There is deep history behind its illiteracy, a story of tragedy and trauma, rebellion and rebuilding.

Haviv Rettig Gur unpacks it all in this episode of Ask Haviv Anything.