The History of Jewish Life in America
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- 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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#AmericanJews #jewish #antisemitism
First country that made first declaration of human rights including Jews’s rights, was Persia, during Cyrus the Grate
and now Iran wants to nuke the Jews
Yeah but 'country' as such was not a concept back then. There were empires so it's true in a sense that Jews were first accepted (for the lack of a better word) during the Persian Empire.
Maybe a "still existing country"?
Oh wow. The persians gave them the rights to live so now they can kill innocent people. Wished the persian never have done that. What a big mistake!
@@thomaspaine1776 It is still an existing country called Iran. I don't believe they feel the same way about the Jews today.
Washington wrote the letter to whats now the Touro Synagogue in Newport RI, not Providence. Otherwise great video!
Hayim Solomon in PA funded the American Revolution, he died bankrupt because of it, you also forgot the Spanish Portuguese Jews accepted into Savannah GA before the Revolution and before Catholics were allowed there.
This video is great. I do wish you would have included that many Jews changed their last names to sound less Jewish because of the antisemitism they were facing since many people explicitly refused to allow Jews.
Yep. There's been a lot of antisemitism. Still is. Except in the past it was mostly just white Christians. Now it's a tiny minority of white supremacists and a LOT of black people who seem to hate Jews for whatever reason. Unfortunately American media doesn't follow ir but there's been almost 300% increase from last year in NYC of Antisemitic attacks.
@@YaakovEzraAmiChi Thats definitely a stretch
Yes, that is my family's story. The last name was changed:)
@@yiddenaJews own most of America's economy and have weight in the world. Jews are the most racist people
Really amazing video
Very informative!!!
My family came as Sephardi Jews in the 17th century. I was just in Philly and saw how much Jewish history (primary Portuguese Jews) were involved in the revolution alone.
Spanish and Portuguese Jews were obviously the first Jews in the Americas.
There were probably a few Spanish & Portuguese Jews on all of Columbus’s voyages.
The Sephardic Jews were definitely in most Spanish territories like Cuba etc by the early 1500s & in the Portuguese colony of Brazil also by the early 1500s.
Sephardic Jews predate Ashkenazi Jews in the Americas in most cases by 200 to 300 years
That's great! I want to learn my ancestry and I don't know how.
You should visit the Jewish Museum in Philadelphia, not far from the Liberty Bell, the Jewish community was very involved in the revolution and development of Philadelphia, mostly Sephardic Jewsin the 1700's.
Great video!
Amazing video!
Great video! Thank you!
My great great (great great) Grandfather came here to America in early 1900s (before 1914) and his immigration paper says he came here to get away from Tzar Nicholas (the second iirc)
And today I think I want to go and live in Israel instead.
Great video!! Keep it up!
Good video, thanks! But small mistake at 2:36
Aleksandr the III, not the II.
May we be a strong country & culture!
For, America is a Westernized multi-ethnic country with a Westernized multi-ethnic culture - always has been always will be.
God Bless America 🇺🇲❤️☺️🕉️✝️✡️
this is the problem with them in America, they've turned it into a multi-ethnic country. America was built and founded as a homogenous European nation for Europeans.
The reason why America is falling apart is because it's multi ethnic. It was a strong prosperous country when it was made up of whites.
And it might be worth remembering. Who owned the sweatshops. Other Jews.
Ford, Vanderbilt, etc weren’t Jews, and were actually renowned antisemites
My Grandma told me she stood on the street and saw what happened, as the Triangle Shirt Factory burned. 😮horrible. She was one of those picketers. She was only 21 and new to America. She retired from the Garment Manufacturing Industry ( rag trade) working hard most of her life. Grandma I miss you❤and think of you often. I was brought up mostly as a Hungarian American Jew. My Mom’s side came to America much earlier. My Grandma Sadie and Grandpa Jerry were old style New Yorker ( Manhattan) Jews 😂 My Mom was probably one of the original “JAPs”.
I would love to see a video of middle eastern Jews like Syria or Iraq
Most middle eastern Jews now live in Israel. There’s a few Jews left in Iran though.
@@Rotisiv I know but I talking about before Israel.
@@sawconvention424 I’m talking about medieval times like 10th century to 1800s before Israel.
We have a video about Jews living under the Ottoman Empire here: th-cam.com/video/UMFYBNMR3pg/w-d-xo.html
@@Rotisiv And very few in Morocco and a bare handful in Tunisia as well.
The narrator sounds like the wife of the program Technican of one for Israel! There is more like 15 million Jews in the U.S. there are 6.5 million Jews in the top 10 states of the U.S.A.
I caught that too. There are WAY more Jews in the USA then in Israel, though the video Implied the opposite. I don't know if it is still true, but in the 1980s,there were more Jews in New York City alone than in all of Israel.
Nice video!
Glad you enjoyed it
May America will always be a home to the Jewish people, may their progeny thrive in future generations.
Bad Jews - A History of American Jewish Infighting
Emily Tamkin, a Jewish writer from the UK who writes about American Jewry, has recently published a book titled Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities. The book’s publisher, Hurst, describes it as “A lively, thoughtful history of America’s Jews, exploring their complex relationships with national culture, identity, and politics-and each other.”
The book caused a bit of a stir among Jewish publications. JTA, for example, wrote that Tamkin “takes a different tack, tracing the history of American Jewry through the ways Jews on one side of social upheaval seek to discredit the very Jewishness of those on the other side.” The book itself focuses on what is happening in America, since “American Jewish history,” writes Tamkin, “is full of discussions and debates and hand-wringing over who is Jewish, and how to be Jewish, and what it means to be Jewish.”
So, first, we need to realize where the word Yehudi (Jewish) comes from. There is the known answer, that Yehudi comes from Yohuda (Judah), the name of the tribe that lived in the land of Israel during the Second Temple. However, there is another meaning to the word: Yehudi also comes from the word Yechudi, meaning united. This makes perfect sense if you remember that we were pronounced a nation only after we committed to love each other “as one man with one heart” at the foot of Mt. Sinai, yet, for the most part, this explanation did not receive the notoriety it deserves.
If you look at being Jewish through the spectacle of Jewish unity, as I do, then being a good Jew means first and foremost that you want to unite with all the Jews, that this is what really matters to you, your prime value. If Jewishness is about unity, then a Jew is a person who knows, feels, understands, and even spreads the idea that the most important thing is to be connected in ties of love with all the Jews, regardless of denomination, customs, political views, or any other issue that currently divides and splinters the Jewish people.
The author wrote that one of the answers she got to the question about the meaning of being a bad Jew was “someone whose conception of Judaism doesn’t have applications to the wider world.” I understand where this answer comes from. It is with good reason Jews gave the correction of the world such a pivotal place in their identity. We even gave that mission its own Hebrew term, Tikkun Olam (Hebrew for “Correction of the World”).
However, we must know what it means to correct the world, to be responsible for it, or even to care about the world. Tikkun Olam are not simply words; they imply a very specific task, and until we accomplish it, we will not be “good Jews.”
At the “inauguration” of our people, we were commanded to unite “as one man with one heart,” as RASHI interprets. Immediately after, we were declared a nation and were tasked with being “a light to the nations.”
In other words, our unity and our obligation to the world are indivisible. We cannot be a light to the nations if we are not united. At the same time, we cannot unite unless we do it in order to be a light to the nations.
When our ancestors united for the first time, under the guidance of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they were not a biologically related group. They were an eclectic crowd that was taken by the idea that all the people should unite, and we should not succumb to our ego. This is why Abraham advocated kindness and mercy, to teach people how to rise above their self-absorption and care for one another.
Abraham was a maverick, a pioneer, a trailblazer, but thanks to him, these noble ideas are now universal. As a nation that formed out of disparate tribes and clans, it was our duty to be the living proof of Abraham’s paradigm. This is why we became a nation only after we united, and not a moment prior.
Since our inception, we have known that unity is our “secret weapon.” However, we never understood why, what was the secret of the strength in our unity. The secret is not that unity itself makes us undefeatable, but that our unity dissolves the world’s hatred toward us and turns it into respect and awe. It gives the world the example of unity that it needs so that all of humanity can unite, as well.
Not only we received a message when we were at the foot of Mt. Sinai. At that moment, the nations of the world received the knowledge that we received the calling. Since then, they have been wait
Moses and Elijah are returning soon and 144000 Jewish virgins will soon be given their special ministry by God to lead all Jews to their Messiah Jesus Christ! Only a few more years to go!
Nice
Epic
You forgot Judah P. Benjamin
Hallelujah. Am Yisrael Chai.
There was some curse for the religion Orereth, for that entire Pisces aeon. Accordingly, their best religion choice would have been Orphism; best of course, without errors which writers on the topic had introduced. Severity, Geburah, was a basic attribution of that Pisces Aeon, the religions generally reflected this. Orphism, best attributed with the same Sign as Orereth, Capricorn. Mystery Cults, mostly with Aquarius, different. Joining Christianity institution would generally not have been the best choice for them. Those of Orereth, many of the Middle Eastern race; some First Race or Mithraikosi; some from the Parallel Nordic race, actually Celtic joined. With the New Aeon Aquarius, however, the only religions possible for dispensation were Pagan or Animist, and Gnostic. All of the 13 others were for Parenter Types only, Orphism, too; the Sign Borledim came to an end then. The correct classification of Kaballah was as Pagan, different from Orereth; regionally related. There's not really any bad portent for Orereth language, which came from a former planet, Mars; their best common language choice would have been language of Menes, however. Not for Aquarius, though...
Sam Aronow says hi
Hi.
Can you do a vedio on equality of abrahamic religions
All fake, so what is there point?
Leans negative on America, concentrates on one lynching for example. That’s how you argue that something is bad, list negative characteristics and ignore most positive. Those who consider America a constitutional republic and not a joke for each generation to laugh at in their own way recognize the shocking fairness of America’s founding toward Jews. And regarding the negatives experiences, African Americans and Catholics had it harder than the Jews, one could argue. And the Protestants? They risked being a failing revolution and failed country early in, paying for America by being shot to death or stabbed on the battlefields of the early republic. Gratitude is a Jewish characteristic, it is the appropriate attitude toward the 🇺🇸 IMO.
amazing video
how about Aaron Lopez
U guys should've mentioned more famous jewish Americans
Drake and Pete Davidson 2+
Drake is Canadian
Jews are very special and very smart people.
Dude don't fall into the propaganda. By your last name I assume you are asian mangoloid. I suggest you help your own people just like jews did.
Nope, yes they are smart, but They are ignorant about religion, they know the truth, but they turn away
@@thespeakersreview99 I understand what you are saying, but they are still special since the Abrahamic Covenant was never abolished. After all, Jesus is a Jew.
@@wikilee8928Jesus turned away money changers
the Woke speak is abundant here.
@Apsoy Pike inaptitude is misplaced here
@Apsoy Pike woke key words are the issue.
They broaden the associated words, instead of making a point.
It's like describing an example with more broad words, and these broad words are used more in negative discussions.
I wouldn't like Jews to be associated with them, better to use specific ones
@@manubishe I don't think that you are Jewish. If you were, you would not use language so poorly, Or so vaguely.
@@milascave2 the Jews have hidden their less-than-briliant speakers from you?
My condolences.
I've met many Jews who don't read, have you?
Why have you left out the chassidic/litvish jewish communities in the US? Even Chabad is missing ...
I think India is the only country where no jews had to face these atrocities
Wtf this obviously totally inaccurate, why would you say this??
I live in Mumbai which is the prominent place where 90% of Jews have been here since India's Independence never ever heard any or read any such incidents against Jews they are living here peacefully
@@benconnolly565because when Jews were getting persecuted by muslims and Christians in west then they fled to India and found safe heaven India. India has also protected religion like zorastrians who faced genocide in thier own country in iran by muslims
Being a Jew myself, and being tired of discrimination, I'd like to make something perfectly clear: being a Jew is blood not religion. Being Jewish does not make someone a Jew. 'Jewish' is a religion. Scary book. I'm a Roman Catholic Jew.
-The Point Man of Zero Dark Thirty
So were the glamorous Gabor Sisters and their Mother…..all Hungarian Jews like me, but Catholic. They talked about it, so I’m glad you are too.
tyler: Yea, it's confusing to gentiles. And why would it not be? Evan for Jews it is confusing. But let's try to sort it out. "Jewish" is an ethnic group. "Judaism" is a religion. People born into the ethnic group are Jewish, regardless of what religion they take up. But people who convert to the religion are also Jewish, regardless of ethnicity? And, who determines who is born ethnically Jewish? It is based on the mother. If your mother was Jewish when you were born, you, too, are Jewish, whether she was born Jewish or became Jewish by conversion.
Note: Judaism is not a religion that pushes for conversion, though it permits it.
Nope. Once you convert you and your progeny are no longer Jews. Converts on the other hand are fully Jewish.
@@spicyshiba508Someone doesn't know their ethnic groups. What race do you think lived in israel during 500 bc? what race was exiled from israel ? martians?
Ayee Washington said that they were citizens, must be nice.
We should be allowed public discourse about those facts too. The right to privacy. Mmmm.
Now imagine these guys who have helped the world are now going home Israel will be so rich if ooo it's children go home 🏠,☺️😅🤦
Unfortunately because of all these modernizations and calls to redefine there's been so much assimilation, People who embrace the original reform movement no longer have Jewish descendants
The problem didn't start in America, but ask yourself how is it that the number 7-8 million jews has pretty much stayed the same over the last 60-70 years and why orthodox Jewish percentages keep rising
Which in a way comes back to the big question, what does it mean to be Jewish?
Good there will be Less of them👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@pharaongaming8617 what's that supposed to mean?
@@mottyk8491 Less Reform Less Conservative and more Orthodox is Good
👇 if you are a proud Jew
At the 7:21 mark, you show American Jews who "built illustriuos careers across the arts, science, music and law." One of the pictures that you used is Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.
One question - Why is she even there?
Yes, she is an outstanding researcher whose workmore than significant. But she is not - and never has been - an American Jew! She was was born in Jerusalem and has lived in Israel her entire life. Her parents immigrated from Poland. She is not relevant to what is an otherwise very interesting (and relevant) video.
❤ love 🇺🇸 usa
The promised land it called / Palestine 🇵🇸 /
Should all the Jews to move forward from around the world 🌎 It's the safest place and prosperous for all .
Why don't you ask the spirit of truth instead of man
Muslim Spain was the gold age of Jews
No wonder America is great.
BS the downfall of the USA...toxic people that have not dealt with their personal trauma
Based General Ulysses
We remain in Babylonian captivity
I saw in your last comments that your an black Hebrew Israelite. That’s not a real sect of Judaism if you want to be Jewish join an official sect.
@@akirafudo4419 I follow Chabad Lubavitch; I just happen to be African American
@@exiledhebrew1994 oh I’m so sorry. Can you please forgive me?
@@akirafudo4419 yes; of course. There are some African Americans who borrow from Jewish culture, while espousing Anti semetic rhetoric; I am trying to understand ashkenazi Jews, and learn true authentic Judaism.
@@exiledhebrew1994 ok again sorry. I’m not ashkenazi but I have study them they have a vary interesting history and culture. If like to know but I no expert or if you like I can tell you about the Sephardic or North African Jews and even Ethiopian Jews and Asian jews.
Why is she talking like this? It's so cringe.
What about the darker skinned original Jews with wooly hair?
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1900 -1950 let’s
Interesting..When did they go from black to white skinned?🤔 all the accounts from 1558 depicted them as “swarthy”
No, all accounts do not have them as swarthy,
You are lie
To fall to create
LMAO who is Dan . Dan judge
wish black people did something similar 😔
It is interesting to compare the two. Both Jews and black people were excluded from white gentile society in many ways. So they created parallel societies: businesses, schools, social clubs, houses of worship, and so forth. But the black businesses tended to fail for the very simple reason that they were physically attacked, over and over again, which does not do much to instill a work ethic into a culture.
Jewish businesses, social centers, temples, and so forth, were also attacked. But in the USA, not as much. They were able to do well and to compete well with other businesses because they were left alone more. In Europe, this was not true. Jewish businesses. Temples, homes, and everything else were physically attacked over and over again, which is why so many of them came to the USA.
This is fake history the word Jewish/Jew wasn’t even around until the 1930’s
@@milascave21. Jews choose to come to America fleeing much more terrible conditions elsewhere; 2. They might be seen by Whites as undesirable, but they were considered to be humans, not property; 3. They were allowed to keep their religion, tradition and language if they wanted to. Black people were granted none of this “privileges” when they were kidnapped and shipped to America to be sold as property. So both populations started from two totally different points to begin with.
@@FBAHistoryZionism was founded as a national movement in Europe. They combined a religion (Judaism) and an ethnic identity (Semitic) the ancient Israelites related to Canaanites. Most Arab / Ethiopian were Jews until converting to Islam/Christianity. It’s the pattern of human history. Nation/country is a new invention
We already have j3wish heritage month it's called black history month...
There are black Jews but being black doesn’t make you a Jew stop trying to erase Jews and our culture
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Actually, more Jews are Americans than Israelis. Think about it for a moment.
wow
they f good . >?
Why No Messianic mention on that List?
Those are christian heretics, not actual Jews.
Messianic stopped being Jews.
Messianics are not Jews
Them: us running Hollywood is a conspiracy theory
Also them: 7:00
Aww, jealous?
@@c.c.7687 no, I'm disgusted.
Jews also founded Christianity, do you think Jews run it to this day? some big Hollywood studios were founded by Jews 100 years ago, you do realize there were always also non Jews at the helm, and that much changed since 1920?
You have a man like queen ant dragon believing your dragon makes pissants type of people piss until they stop trying covet you your family only believing God healed you your family only 😊
Why the part where european jews made america fight the world war for israel not mentioned...? 😄
Balfour declaration
Because you’re just lying.
I'm not sure if you're lying/joking or just ignorant. America fought in WW1 after they intercepted a letter from Germany to Mexico telling them to attack the US.
Israel was not a thing in either of the world wars. And before you say it: no, zionists do not rule the world and did not influence houndreds of years of history just to get a piece of desert in the middle east. All "proof" of that comes from an openly anti semetic published by a nazi, so i do think its that credible.
Say I'm not that kind of jew only covet people with contracts NFL open Judaism policies
Wtf are you talking about you sound insane
By money lending without paying taxes
And it help when getting Diamond and gold from Africa
Anti Semitic right?
Truth fact just speaking history everything not anti Semitic check
@@barbarawestbrook6589 not to you 😂🤦♂️
@@barbarawestbrook6589
It’s not true.
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Stop praising the reform Judaism like it did something worthy for the American Jewish community all they did was water down authentic Judaism
Seems to be the case. Return to Orthodoxy!
If you’re a Jew and you practice Judaism then that’s an authentic foam of Judaism we’re all Jews we practice in our own ways (not including messianic because that’s literally Christianity)
They got to thrive something that Black people in America tried to do but instead we got beat down.
Isn’t that what Israel is for?
First of all, biblical Hebrews and or Isrealites were not white. Second Isrealites were in so called america way before any white european ever came here to colonize Isrealites land. What happened to my Native People is biblical and lines up with Deuteronomy scripture by scripture and line for line. Red man are Isrealites as our customs are exactly the same. James Adair touches on this back in the 1700-1800s. Why we Cherokee call what happened to US the war with the Jesuits(pagan roman).
You’re not Israelites. You’re not Jews. You’re not Hebrews. Stop larping as us.
How about you stop lying about a people who you know nothing about I’d suggest a Jewish studies class and definitely a history class
Old tasteless joke -
"Abraham Lincoln - now there was a great Jewish man."
"Lincoln was Jewish?"
"He was shot in the temple."