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Military history of Jewish Americans - Wikipedia

Jewish military personnel have served in all branches of the armed forces and in every major armed conflict to which the United States has been involved.

Jewish Soldiers in the Allied Armies - Yad Vashem

Approximately 1.5 million Jews fought in the regular Allied armies. In many cases the percentage of Jews fighting was greater than the percentage of Jews in ...

Jewish military history - Wikipedia

Against Assyria, Aram and Moab (Iron Age II) · Battle of Qarqar · The campaigns of Hazael in the lands of Isreal and Judah · The occupation of Lands by Mesha of ...

Jewish Americans in World War II | New Orleans

During World War II, 550,000 Jewish men and women served in the US Armed Forces. Serving in all branches of the military, some were born in ...

Jewish Veterans of World War II | Diverse Experiences in Service

Fighting Nazi Germany took on special significance for one group of U.S. servicemen in the European Theater. Even those Jewish soldiers and sailors who were ...

Men of Mordechai: Jewish Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces

... Jewish American soldiers who might have been overlooked for their achievements due to their faith. Sgt. William Shemin was one such soldier.

GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II | PBS

Jewish servicemen were also among the first to assist the survivors of the Nazi concentration camps liberated by American troops. After years of struggle, these ...

The Kaiser's Jewish Soldiers: Loyalty, Identity, Betrayal

The Jewish soldiers whose stories are told in this exhibition had remarkable experiences, performing surgery in Gallipoli, working with casualty dogs in the ...

Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: the Union Army - by Adam D ...

“Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War” is an attempt to correctly identify every Jew who served in the Union Army, something Wolfe's error-prone book attempted.

Statistics on Jewish American Soldiers in World War II

Sources: Bureau of War Records cited in AJHS Newsletter (Fall/Winter 2003); Yad Vashem; Associated Press (May 5, 2013); Jewish Recipients of the Congressional ...

In Their Own Words: Jewish Veterans of World War II

“As a Jew, it was Hitler and me. That's the way I pictured the war.” – Theodore Diamond, U.S. Army Air Force. The Museum of Jewish ...

Jews in the Red Army, 1941–1945 - Yad Vashem

About the ProjectBetween 350000 and 500000 Jews served in various roles in the Red Army during the Soviet-German War of 1941–1945. In the first months after ...

Hitler's Jewish Soldiers - Warfare History Network

Hitler's racial laws designated Mischlinge as “Jewish” or “part Jewish.” They were only “Hitler's Jewish soldiers” and no one else's, since the majority of the ...

Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers | Bryan Mark Rigg

Pursuing the thread he first unraveled in Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, Bryan Rigg takes a closer look at the experiences of Wehrmacht soldiers who were classified ...

The Jews Who Fought for Nazi Germany - Tablet Magazine

According to Hitler's Jewish Soldiers by Bryan Mark Rigg, thousands of full Jews and more than a hundred-thousand part-Jews joined the military of the Third ...

Pride and Peril: Jewish American POWs in Europe | New Orleans

Prior to capture, some American soldiers and airmen were keenly ... Some Jewish servicemen debated whether to declare themselves as Jews ...

The 'Ritchie Boys': The Jewish U.S. Soldiers Who Helped Defeat the ...

Defeating Germany during World War II was no easy feat. A group of officers known as the “Ritchie Boys” played an important role in the ...

Jews and the Civil War | Brandeis University

Religion generally posed no barrier to military promotion. Indeed, one. Union officer actually won his position because he was a Jew. Observing that "we have ...

Sons of Israel in Caesar's Service: Jewish Soldiers in the Roman ...

There were Jews who served as simple foot soldiers, influential generals like Tiberius Julius Alexander, and Jewish military units such as the Regii Emeseni ...

Jewish Soldiers & Veterans in Our Collections

Our collections include personal papers on soldiers from the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II, as well as organizational records from local ...