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The Greatest Question in American Jewish History by Dr Edward Shapiro

Sunday, March 31, 2019 24 Adar II 5779

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

 

Dr Edward Shapiro will discuss the following:

  • A century since the cutting off of the massive immigration of Jews from east Europe to the United States due to World War I and the immigration restriction laws of the 1920's, and that now is a good time to examine this immigration;
  • The flight of Jews from East Europe
  • How this changed American Jewry from an overwhelmingly middle-class community of merchants and professionals spread throughout the country and tending toward Reform to a community of workers (especially in the garment industry) concentrated in the Northeast and Chicago, living in slums of which the most important was New York City's Lower East Side, and bringing with them the practices of Orthodox Judaism;
  • The great fears of German-American Jews regarding this migration and note that these fears existed among acculturated and native Jews living in other countries, particularly France, Great Britain, and Germany;
  • The detail regarding each one of these fears, i.e., the political fear, social fear, cultural fear, and economic fear; 
  • How none of these fears were justified in light of the history of the immigrants and their descendants;
  • The great question was never whether the immigrants and their descendants could become Americanized but whether they would need to be Judaized. 

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