Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: identify the origins of the Jewish American communities; describe Jewish life in the colonial days; discuss the roles of the Jewish community in the early American culture and government; identify the effects of the American Revolution on the American Jewish community; distinguish between the culture of the American Jews and that of the European Jews who immigrated in the 1800s; distinguish between the cultures of the religious and non-religious Jews in American society; identify the political roles assumed by both the religious and non-religious Jewish communities in the United States; describe the disunity that has occurred between the religious and non-religious Jewish communities in the United States; identify and describe the different levels of religious observances of Jews in the United States; and discuss the cultural impact of the Jewish communities on contemporary American society.