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The history of the Jews in the United States has been part of the American national fabric since colonial times. Until the 1830s, the Jewish community of Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest in North America. In the late 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s, many Jewish immigrants left from various nations to enter the U.S. as part of the general rise of immigration movements. For example, many German Jews arrived in the middle of the 19th century, established clothing stores in towns across the country, formed Reform synagogues, and were active in banking in New York. Immigration of Eastern Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews, in 1880–1914, brought a large, poor, traditional element to New York City. They were Orthodox or Conservative in religion. They founded the Zionist movement in the United States, and were active supporters of the Socialist party and labor unions. Economically, they concentrated in the garment industry.
Refugees arrived from diaspora communities in Europe after World War II and, after 1970, from the Soviet Union. Politically, American Jews have been especially active as part of the liberal New Deal coalition of the Democratic Party since the 1930s, although recently there is a conservative Republican element among the Orthodox. They have displayed high education levels, and high rates of upward social mobility. The Jewish communities in small towns have dwindled, as the population concentrated in large metropolitan areas.
In the 1940s, Jews comprised 3.7% of the national population. Today, at about 6.5 million, the population is 2% of the national total—and shrinking as a result of smaller family sizes and interfaith marriages resulting in nonobservance. The largest population centers are the metropolitan areas of New York (2.1 million in 2000), Los Angeles (668,000), Miami (331,000), Philadelphia (285,000), Chicago (265,000) and Boston (254,000).
History Minute: Herald Square, New York City
The DNA of every organization's founder persists into the present. R. H. Macy, who opened his first store 151 years ago, is alive and well symbolically in the Macy's logo and sign.
Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States
How do Latino Jews identify? Can they choose their identity or is it assigned to them? What is it like to be both Latino and Jewish in the United States? On September 17, 2019, author Laura Limonic joined with Eric Lach of The New Yorker in conversation about her fascinating book.
Laura Limonic analyzes the changing construction of race and ethnicity in the United States through the lens of contemporary Jewish immigrants from Latin America. Not easily classifiable in U.S. society, Latino Jews challenge racial and ethnic categories on many levels. Limonic introduces the stories of Latino Jewish immigrants offering new insight with which to understand the diversity of Latinos, the incorporation of contemporary Jewish immigrants, and the effect of ethnicity and race on immigrant assimilation in the United States.
Former New York Attorney General Robert Abrams Speaks at BYU Jerusalem Center
I am honored to participate in this historic ceremony.
Just as divine spirit impelled Orson Hyde to come to this very place 175 years ago to declare this to be the land for the gathering of the Jewish people, so has there been what appears to be a divine guidance in the initial outreach of my good friend Jim Hamula seven years ago, requesting me to organize a delegation of Jewish leaders from New York to visit leaders of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City. From that request have emerged significant events and relationship building.
Our group from New York included rabbis from the major streams of Judaism—orthodox, conservative, and reform—and representatives from the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the UJA-Federation of New York, and the New York Board of Rabbis.
We toured the various facilities of the Church and discussed sensitive issues in meetings with Church leaders, including Elder Holland and Elder Cook, aimed at creating greater bonds of friendship and understanding.
Subsequent visits to New York City by elders of the Church brought them in contact with other leaders in the Jewish community, including Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, who attended the Becket Fund dinner and then was invited to speak at Brigham Young University. Rabbi Soloveichik on another occasion provided a tour of Yeshiva University for myself and other Church officials. He also hosted Elder Cook and Elder Von Keetch as they visited the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States, Shearith Israel, and proudly showed them a Torah used by his congregation during revolutionary war days.
Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, who, in addition to being the executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, cohosts a weekly radio program, Religion on the Line, invited a spokesman for the Mormon Church to appear on the show to outline the wide array of activities and programs of the Church.
My wife and I had the privilege of sharing a Friday night Shabbat dinner at our home, where we shared the traditions of our 3,000-year-old faith with elders of the Church. The warmth, camaraderie, and mutual respect which flowed from the rituals performed—the prayer over the wine and bread, the washing of hands in preparation for the meal, the grace after meals, and the singing and sharing of stories during the meal—have left a permanent glow that lingers in the memory and hearts of all those who attended.
I have had the high honor of visiting three Mormon temples prior to their consecration in the Salt Lake City area, New York City, and Philadelphia.
On a visit to the Brigham Young Center on Mount Scopus with my younger daughter, she was given the surprise opportunity to play a melody on the organ, and she offered a spirited rendition of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
Elder James Hamula was a special guest of honor at the rededication of the sanctuary of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun after a devastating fire caused major damage to the building.
These events enabled me to learn more about the Mormon community and to discover that there are strong areas of common ground with the Jewish community. Each has a fundamental focus on family; each places a very high value on education; each has a strong commitment to charitable giving; each demonstrates humanitarian concern and response when there are international catastrophes such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and tsunamis around the globe; each has a history of disproportionate success due to ability, hard work, and determination; and each has been subjected to fierce persecution and prejudice.
There is nothing more noble than extending the hand of friendship to fellow human beings. The world needs more understanding and respect among people, and it is encouraging to see the fostering of that core value here today.
Friendship and respect have always existed between our two communities, and it is heartening to see it being strengthened.
May we share many more opportunities of common efforts in the days ahead.
New York Jewish Film Festival 2020 | Trailer | Jan. 15-28
The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center are delighted to continue their partnership to bring you the 29th annual New York Jewish Film Festival, presenting films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience. This year’s festival presents an engaging lineup of narratives, documentaries, and shorts, from restored classics to world premieres.
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Dani Menkin’s documentary Aulcie is the Opening Night selection, screening in its New York premiere on Thursday, January 16. When a scout for the Israeli basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv spotted Aulcie Perry on Harlem’s Rucker Court in 1976, he recruited the athlete to join their fledgling team. Less than a year later, Perry led the team to a win in the 1977 European Championship, a victory that he repeated four years later. Aulcie delves into the riveting story of this legendary player, who put Israeli basketball on the map, converted to Judaism, became an Israeli citizen, and overcame his demons.
The Closing Night film is the New York premiere of Dror Zahavi’s Crescendo. When a world-famous conductor (played by Toni Erdmann’s Peter Simonischek) accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he steps into a firestorm of conflict and mistrust as he tries to bring the two factions of young musicians together in harmony.
The Centerpiece selection focuses on the career of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, the French film director, author, producer, and actress who died in 2018. The Birch Tree Meadow (2003), starring Anouk Aimée and August Diehl, is Loridan-Ivens’s autobiographical drama about an Auschwitz survivor who returns to the camp to confront her past and the young descendant of an SS guard she meets there. This screening is part of an annual initiative highlighting work by women filmmakers that merit broader American recognition.
The 2020 NYJFF marks the 50th anniversary of legendary director Vittorio De Sica’s Academy Award–winning The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. This beloved Italian drama, based on the classic novel by Giorgio Bassani, is set amidst the rise of Fascism in the 1930s. The wealthy, intellectual Finzi-Contini family’s estate serves as a gathering place for the local Jewish community that tries to remain sheltered from the country’s growing anti-Semitism. While romance unfolds behind the tall, stone walls of the garden, an increasingly hostile reality sets in.
The NYJFF will present the World Premiere of the new restoration of Charles Davenport’s long-lost 1919 silent film Broken Barriers (Khavah), the first film based on the Sholem Aleichem stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof. This story is uniquely told from the perspective of Khavah, Tevye the milkman’s daughter, who falls in love with the gentile boy Fedka and navigates the reverberations from her community and family. Donald Sosin will provide live piano accompaniment. (The restoration was completed by the National Center for Jewish Film.)
This year’s New York Jewish Film Festival was selected by Rachel Chanoff, Director, THE OFFICE performing arts + film; Gabriel Grossman, Coordinator, New York Jewish Film Festival/The Jewish Museum; and Aviva Weintraub, Associate Curator, The Jewish Museum and Director, New York Jewish Film Festival; with Dennis Lim, Director of Programming, Film at Lincoln Center, as adviser.
SUPPORT
The New York Jewish Film Festival is made possible by the Martin and Doris Payson Fund for Film and Media.
Generous support is also provided by Wendy Fisher and Dennis Goodman, Sara and Axel Schupf, Louise and Frank Ring, The Liman Foundation, Mimi and Barry Alperin, an anonymous gift, the Ike, Molly and Steven Elias Foundation, Amy and Howard Rubenstein, Robin and Danny Greenspun, Steven and Sheira Schacter, and through public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council.
Additional support is provided by the Polish Cultural Institute New York, Dutch Culture USA, the German Consulate General New York, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Fiona Drenttel, Intern; Joan Dupont, Film Critic; Nicola Galliner, Jewish Film Festival Berlin & Brandenburg; Stuart Hands, Toronto Jewish Film Festival; Annette Insdorf, Columbia University; Marlene Josephs, Volunteer; Linda Lipson, Volunteer; Richard Peña, Columbia University; Sophie Rupp, Intern.
Additional support is provided by The Jack and Pearl Resnick Foundation.
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The History of the Jews and the Mob
Myron Sugerman, the Last Jewish Gangster, describes the Jewish mafia's role in fighting anti-Semitism in the 1930's and the crucial role the Jewish mob played in arming the infant Jewish State.
American Shtetl: A Hasidic Town in Suburban New York - David N. Myers
David Myers, historian at UCLA, explores the curious case of Kiryas Joel, a legally recognized municipality in the State of New York. Is this community's existence consistent with or is it a deviation from the American legal and political tradition? Filmed October 26, 2017
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New York City - Historical Population
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. A global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a county of New York State. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a census-estimated 2012 population of 8,336,697 distributed over a land area of just 302.64 square miles (783.8 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States.
How America Met the Jews
The Program in Judaic Studies presents: How America Met the Jews (Hasia Diner, Brown University's BJS Visiting Scholar and NYU, Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History). Sponsored by Brown Judaic Studies Monograph Series.
Remarks to the Temple Hillel Congregation & Jewish Comm. Leaders in Valley Stream, NY — 10/26/84
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Ancient Jewish Library Welcomed to New Home in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Moscow's Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre as an important collection of ancient Jewish books, the Schneerson library, arrived on Thursday. The President familiarised himself with the most valuable parts of the collection, which contains some 12,000 books and 50,000 rare documents dating from the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century.
The transfer follows years of debate with the New York City based Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community who demand the return of the library. The movement argues they are the right owners of the books, as the author of the collection, Schneerson, headed the organisation after moving to the United States. However the transfer of the Schneerson library was welcomed by the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berl Lazar, who called it a big day for Russian Jews.
Russia has maintained that it will keep the collection, saying that it is a state property and part of Russian culture. The matter got into the media spotlight in January after a US judge ordered Russia to pay $50,000 (€37,000) per day until it returns the library. The decision to move the collection to Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre was proposed by Putin himself this year during a meeting of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations.
Moscow's Jewish Museum and Centre of Tolerance was opened in November 2012, with Israeli President Shimon Peres travelling to Moscow for its inauguration. It features several interactive displays regarding the Jewish peoples' long and tumultuous place in Russian history. Now home to the the Schneerson library collection, the museum's new library department operates as a part of the Russian State Library.
First Person: Jason Stanley in Conversation with Peter Beinart
As a professor of philosophy at Yale, a scholar of propaganda, and the child of World War II Jewish Refugees, Jason Stanley understands how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism. Alarmed by the pervasive rise of fascist tactics both at home and around the globe, Stanley set out to analyze the language and beliefs that separate people into an “us” and a “them.” In his new book, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Stanley knits together reflections on history, philosophy, sociology, and critical race theory with stories from contemporary Hungary, Poland, India, Myanmar, and the United States, among other nations.
In a fascinating First Person conversation, Stanley spoke with journalist Peter Beinart on April 1, 2019 at the Center for Jewish History about the ten pillars of fascist politics, the recurring patterns he sees, and how his own family history influences his world view today.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Presented by: Center for Jewish History, the Leo Baeck Institute and the American Jewish Historical Society
Migrations: Russian and Eastern European Jewish
The immigration of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe between 1881 and the National Origins Act of 1924 brought timeless musical traditions and inspired new ones in America. Carnegie Hall’s exploration of this music includes ecstatic klezmer music with the Andy Statman Trio, Michael Feinstein performing popular songs rooted in the Eastern-European tradition, and a revue celebrating the journey of Yiddish culture from the Old to New World.
carnegiehall.org/migrations
The history of America is indelibly linked to the movement of people. Some were brought here not of their own free will, and their perseverance and resilience transformed the nation. Others came here—or moved within the borders of this country—because they sought a new life, free from poverty, discrimination, and persecution. The many contributions—cultural, social, and political—of these migrations, and the people who helped to build this country and what it means to be American, are honored in Carnegie Hall’s festival Migrations: The Making of America.
Carnegie Hall examines the musical legacies of three migrations: the crossings from Scotland and Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries, the immigration of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe between 1881 and the National Origins Act of 1924, and the Great Migration—the exodus of African Americans from the South to the industrialized cities of the Northeast, Midwest, and West from 1917 into the 1970s.
With performances of bluegrass, old-time, klezmer, Yiddish musical theater, blues, jazz, and more, Carnegie Hall celebrates the American musical traditions that flourished as a result of these migrations.
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American Jewish Historical Society
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The “Pew Jew” Study: American and German-Jewry in Comparison
Recorded at the Center for Jewish History on October 26, 2017.
Co-presented with Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, with an introduction by David Adelson, Dean of the HUC-JIR New York Campus.
The Pew Research Center’s study on Jewish Americans in 2013 alarmed some observers by showing rising intermarriage, falling birthrates, and dwindling religious affiliation among the non-Orthodox. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Germany’s increasingly prosperous Jewish minority confronted similar questions about the nature of Jewish identity and the viability of Jewish communal life in a secularizing society. Samuel Norich, president and former publisher of the Forward, will moderate a discussion with Steven Cohen (Hebrew Union College) and Robin Judd (Ohio State University) about the parallels and contrasts between the situations of German Jews a century ago and American Jews today.
Samuel Norich is the president of the Forward and has served as executive director of the Forward Association since 2000. He was the publisher of the English and Yiddish Forward for 19 years until 2016. He was born in Germany in 1947 and immigrated to the United States in 1957. He attended Columbia University as an undergraduate, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a graduate student. Norich served as executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research from 1980 until 1992, and as vice president of the World Jewish Congress from 1975 to 1981. Norich is the author of What Will Bind Us Now?: A Report on the Institutional Ties Between Israel and American Jewry (1994).
Steven M. Cohen is Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York and Director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at Stanford University. He has written hundreds of scholarly articles and policy-related reports, as well as a dozen books including The Jew Within (with Arnold Eisen, 2000) and Two Worlds of Judaism: The Israeli and American Experience (with Charles Liebman, 1990). He was the lead researcher on the Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011 and a consultant to the Pew study of American Jews published in 2013.
Robin Judd is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. Her book Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and German-Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933, was published by Cornell University Press (2007). She is currently completing her newest book project, Love, Liberation, and Loss: Jewish Brides, Soldier Husbands, and Communal Reconstruction after the Holocaust. Judd currently serves on the Academic Advisory Board of Leo Baeck Institute.
JCPA Criminal Justice Reform Conference: Criminal Jewish Reform in NY
On September 15, 2019, The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) in partnership with the UJA-Federation of New York and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (JCRCNY) plus over 35 Jewish organizations sponsored a one-day Criminal Justice Reform Conference in NYC.
Criminal Jewish Reform in NY
Cheryl Wills, NY 1, Moderator
Khalil Cumberbatch, New Yorkers United for Justice
Erin L. George, Citizen Action of NY and FREE New York Campaign
Dana Kaplan, New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice
Joseph Popcun, New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
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You Are There Elmira Jewish Heritage
This script was written to emulate the CBS radio and television series You Are There, which aired in the 1940s and 1950s in the United States. An unknown local author from Elmira, NY composed this piece to tell the story of the Jewish community in Elmira in the style of this nationally renowned radio series. David Siskin, member of Congregation Shomray Hadath, edited the script, narrated, and recorded and edited the audio. Maria Kennedy edited the video using photographs from the collections of the Chemung County Historical Society and Congregation Kol Ami. This video is part of the exhibit At the Jewish Table: Food, Family, and Heritage in Elmira on view at the Chemung County Historical Society from April 16 - September 29, 2018, in collaboration with The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. The project is funded by the New York State Council on the Arts. For more information, see our website:
The late Senator Daniel Inouye (88) last speech to Jewish Group
12-18-2012 AP/VINNEWS
Jewish community mourns loss of long time friend, Senator Inouye
New York - His list of accomplishments was long and prolific: the most senior senator in the United States senate as well as the second longest serving senator in American history, the highest ranking Asian-American politician in the country, an undefeated elected official in the state of Hawaii since it declared statehood and recipient of numerous awards and citations including the World War II Medal of Honor, the Bronze Star Medal and two Purple Hearts.
But for American Jewry Senator Daniel Inouye, who passed away yesterday in Washington at age 88, will be remembered as perhaps one of the greatest allies that both the Jewish people and the State of Israel have ever had.
I knew Senator Inouye for decades, Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations told VIN News. He was a remarkable friend of the Jewish community, helping countless Jewish institutions of all kinds, and the most stalwart friend and greatest defender of the State of Israel who ever sat in congress. His death is both a personal and communal loss for all of America.
Inouye, who lost his right arm during World War II, first became interested in Judaism while recovering in the hospital from injuries he sustained during the war. After hearing about the genocide that transpired during the Holocaust he began to study Jewish history and after the State of Israel was created in 1948, Inouye became a registered Israel Bonds salesman without commission. Inouye identified so strongly with the Jewish people that at age 27 he wanted to convert to Judaism, but was convinced not to follow through with his plans by his mother, Hyatoro Inouye, a staunch Methodist.
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