Antisemitism in america between wwi ww ii. Welcome everyone its good to see everybody and we are going to start todays topic in antisemitism in america between wwi ww ii. In the last time that we discussed antisemitism, we focused on the years between the civil war and the end of the 19th century which you will remember was it. The historians called emergence of a full fledged antisemitism society so just for a second to refresh your memory, one of the events in the emergence of that antisemitism society was the exclusion of jew from hotels in public accommodation it. And being excluded from the grand union hotel and in saratogas and in 1877, and remember that we also look at the slides like this one where we see in this image which is from a magazine and its caption is the dream of the jews realize and you will see that we talked about how the sign of john smith, as w back in 1920, was b ten down and its a little hard to st the top but is said that is being replaced and ifook at caref
Antisemitism in america between wwi ww ii. Welcome everyone its good to see everybody and we are going to start todays topic in antisemitism in america between wwi ww ii. In the last time that we discussed antisemitism, we focused on the years between the civil war and the end of the 19th century which you will remember was it. The historians called emergence of a full fledged antisemitism society so just for a second to refresh your memory, one of the events in the emergence of that exclusion of jewsm hotels ine publicccomdationt. Andeing excluded from the grand union hotel and in saratogas and in 1877, and remember that we also look at the slides like this one where we see in this image which is from a magazine and its caption is the dream of the jews realize and you will see that we talked about how the signf john smith, and this was bac in 1920, was being taken downnd its a little hard to see at the top but is saidhat is being replaced and if you look at carefully around the other
On that had had no bar miss mitzvah, couldnt speak hebrew and had a very bad attitude. So after a little bit of trying, i sort of gave up and went back to being a regular american. But through this whole era growing up i was looking around for any other guy for, like, role models. What jews are out there that i can relate to, and this is the 50s and the early of 0s, so i thought, w456s this, Molly Goldberg or Something Like that . There was just nothing that i could relate to. So i never could quite get with the program. Should ive never done anything about my own people. Not to mention the fact that the sick day war is in the ranks with gettysburg or anything like that. But beyond that, its a great story because it is a story of return from exile and the whole climactic western wall. I dont know if you know about that but i will get into that. So i decided this was about three years ago. Paul knows about it because he was with me. So i decided to do that and the first thing i did i ha
1967. He tells the history of the war but with the words of Israeli Soldiers who fought on the front lines. This 50 Minute Program is next on booktv. Thank you guys for coming out on this hot night. What am i going to do . I will try to do about 20 minutes and then we will just talk, questions and i will tell you about how this book came to be written and then a little bit what it is about since the 6day war sort of obscure in most peoples minds. Let me tell you about myself as a background as a jew. I found out that i was jewish when i was 13 years old. That is not as uncommon as it might be. That was a shock when might that laid down one on me so i sort of decided at this point, 1956, after about a week of shellshocked i decided that i would get with the program. If i am a jew i will get with it so i decided i would go to temple and learn this stuff. There was no temple in my home town of pleasantville, new yorks i hitchhiked to the next town where the clintons lived and the weird th
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