Jews have lived in the United States since 1654 — before the states were even united — when twenty-three Sephardic settlers fled to New Amsterdam. Today, the Jewish population of America stands at 7.5 million.

Overcoming brutal sweatshop conditions, assimilationist pressure, antisemitic regulations and even lynchings, American Jews have helped positively shift the country’s politics and economics.
Though they weren’t always welcomed with open arms, and despite the challenges they have faced over time, American Jews have flourished in what is now home to the world’s second largest community of Jews.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:37 Jews during the American Colonial Era
01:37 General Ulysses S. Grant and Antisemitism
02:04 Jewish success in the mid-1800s
02:26 Russian Jewish immigration and textile industry sweatshops
03:19 Jewish involvement in the working class struggle
03:53 Redefining Jewish identity and changing Jewish rituals
04:18 The American Reform Movement
04:39 The Pittsburgh Platform and Conservative Judaism
05:16 Antisemitism in America
05:40 False conviction and lynching of Leo Frank
06:02 The Johnson-Reed Act Jewish immigration quotas
06:56 Jewish activism and success
07:24 American Jewish representation today
07:43 Outro

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Co-Executive Producers:
- Melinda Goldrich
- Shmuel Katz

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Image and footage credits:
– Ajay Suresh
– T’ruah
– Israel GPO-Fritz Cohen
– German Fuentes pavez
– eHillel
– Temple Emanu-El NYC
– Kasala Productions
– Justin Kroger
– Allison Graham

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About The Jewish Story: Understand three thousand years of Jewish history in these short videos based on the book Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5,000-Year History of the Jewish People and Their Faith by the renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert. Learn the Jewish story from the ancient Israelites of the Bible to Hellenization, the Jews of the Middle Ages to modern day, and more.

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