Arthur Miller was a renowned playwright known for his works such as "All My Sons," "Death of a Salesman," and "The Crucible."

The Forward, a socialist newspaper, covered the Great Depression and the Bowery district in New York City.

In response to a documentary report on Rabbi Soloveitchik's arrival in America, Tovah Lichtenstein critiques the focus on trivial details like her sister's name in ship manifest instead of the broader context of the Rabbi's encounter with Boston's Jews.

Sam Halpern, father of Justin Halpern, has written a novel, "A Far Piece to Canaan," published by HarperCollins, which reflects his childhood on a Jewish sharecropping farm in Kentucky in the 1940s.

In the late 1920s, there was a surge in ambitious building projects for Jewish institutions in America, including grand synagogues and university campuses.