History of the Jews in America

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A look at the arrival of Jews in America from the early settlers to the main wave of immigration at the beginning of the 20th century. It discusses how the Jews have always been welcomed in the United States and how the country has become a place of great cultural and religious development recently for Judaism. It examines the trend of Jewish immigration parallel to the arrival of other religions to the United States.

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"America is a long way from the ancestral homes of the Jews, but this does not in any way mean that it is not been a welcoming place for the Jewish people who have, in many ways, thrived in the New World. But the story of the Jews in America is not entirely a successful one, or at least not a traditionally successful one, for much of the sense of Jewish identity has been lost in our semi-Melting Pot, and if Jews have not had in this nation to face the terrible persecutions that they have met in other nations then they have also intermarried at high rates and left the teachings and communities of their ancestors."

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