Jews in America
Category: Altro
è stato aggiornato: 30 set 2017
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Jews establish a
community in
New AmsterdamSavannah's organized community becomes permanentCharleston has an organized
Jewish communityThe Northwest Territory Act
offers Jews equality in all future
territories and statesDr. Levi Myers of SC is the first
Jew in a state legislatureThe Charleston Jewry organizes the first Reform Jewish
religious group in the US: the Reformed Society of Israelites.Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, GeorgiaThe Immigration Act of 1921The Immigration Act of 1924.
Closes America to East European Jews and others.
This legislation is partially motivated by pseudo-scientific racial concepts.German Jewish refugees move to AmericaIsrael declares Independence and is supported by the USCivil Rights Acts of 1964Russian pogroms cause many East European Jews to immigrateJewish cemeteries
vandalized in
BostonPeriodi
Large amount of German Jews immigrate to the US
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