Don you are welcome. [applause] narrator you are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Like us on facebook at cspan history. Week, American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next, a visit to the National Museum of american and jewish history for a tour of their exhibition, tracing the history of jewish people in america. Present day. The in the second of a twopart visit, we pick up a story in the 1880s, when an era of Mass Immigration brought thousands of immigrants to the United States from Eastern Europe every year. We started to see big waves of immigrants coming to america. They included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. Coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is the archetype of the arrival story. People were coming to baltimore, philadelphia, boston, and places like galveston, texas, and california as well. We have on display a number of the types of documen
See big waves of immigrants coming to america. They included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. Coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is sort of the archetype of the arrival story. People were coming to baltimore, philadelphia, boston, and places you would not think of like galveston, texas, and california as well. We have on display a number of the types of documents immigrants would have needed when coming into these ports. Everything from passports to visas, luggage tags, Health Inspection certificates. These are things that people tended to save for a long time afterward and even past down to their children. They carried great meaning for them. Jews left europe for many different reasons. One of the most wellknown is the antisemitic violence that happened in europe. Things which were antijewish riots, and would break out from time to time . They are strongly remembered even by the greatgrandchildren of people who left that
Have more men could go overseas. She worked in washington, d. C. Where she worked as a payroll person. In the 1920s, the fears of immigrants which had been boiling during the time of the great migration to america started to come to a head and eventually leading to the johnson reed act of 1984 which effectively ended immigration by ins instituting quotas. This would of course become a very difficult thing, an obstacle ten years later when a lot of European Jews could have used another safe harbor during the rise of the nazis. The 1920s was a rise of antisemiti antisemitism, largely due to the immigration surge that had happened up until the 1920s. So here we talk a little bit about that, about henry fords antisemitism and the protocols of zion, this was a fraudulent document purportedly outlining a jewish conspiracy to take over the world. It was published during the 1920s. In the 1930s, there was a sort of cultural flourishing in america despite the depression. A lot of really rich ar
Museum of american and jewish history for a tour of their exhibition, tracing the history of jewish people in america. In the second exhibit, we pick up a story in the 1880s, when an era rock thousands to east brought thousands of immigrants to eastern from Eastern Europe every year. We started to see big waves of immigrants coming to america. They included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. Coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is the archetype of the arrival story. People were coming to baltimore, philadelphia, boston, and places like galveston, texas, and california as well. Display a number of the types of documents immigrants would have needed when coming into these ports. Everything from passports to visas, luggage tags, Health Inspection certificates. These are things that people tended to save for a long time afterward and even past down to their children. They carried great meaning for them. Jews left europe for many
Antisemitism and the protocols of zion, this was a fraudulent document purportedly outlining a jewish conspiracy to take over the world. It was published during the 1920s. In the 1930s, there was a sort of cultural flourishing in america despite the depression. A lot of really rich artistic activity and so in this area, we look at the rise of the movies in the 1930s, as well as yiddish theatre. We look at the wpa that supported artists in the 1930s. We also look at the political situation in america, a lot of people were espousing different concepts like socialism or zionism. We also explore religion in the 1930s. Congregation shari eli was a south philadelphia immigrant synagogue that opened its doors in 1918. By the 1980s, membership slacked off and the congregation would soon be closing its doors. People moved out of the neighborhood and they didnt need the big sin nothing anymore. Someone from the congregation called our museum and asked if we would like to go in and see their tora