Austin Albanese is a historian and writer focused on Jewish memory, civic belonging, and interfaith stories from America’s past and present. His work has been published in The Jerusalem Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He also writes the Substack newsletter “Memory Is the Only Inheritance I Have.”
Questions about how power changes the face of Judaism often go unacknowledged amid festivities
Long after his death, the grave of Rabbi Yechiel Meir Burgeman has become a site of prayer and hope
In Virginia, they cared for the graves of Jewish Confederate soldiers — turning burial, not ideology, into an act of obligation and memory
The history of Beth Israel is marked by violence, and by profound communal efforts at repair
Starting with the Revolution, writes a historian, Jews publicly rebutted wartime slander and asserted their place in the American story.
The holiday’s call to make Judaism visible raises an old question: What do people find when they choose us?
Funeral trains linked isolated Jews to larger communities, revealing how belonging could stretch across counties, rail lines, and faiths
The 1915 service for Harris Cohn revealed something timeless about American religion: that devotion, in any language, can be shared
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