Part 1: From Haven to Home

The purpose of going to the exhibit and why it’s there is because they want us to know what happened in the American History and when it starts it. We were supposed to learn about important events and important date from American History. We also had to learn about Jewish people and what they did in life and in American History. What I found interesting in the exhibit was that everyone in America was Anti-Semitic from Jewish people because they didn’t like them. In 1860 during the Civil War there was a man named Isaac Leeser. Isaac Lesser was a traditionalist Hazzan-Minister editor of America first general Jewish newspaper and he help the Jewish people a lot. I also thought that Isaac Lesser was interesting because he help the Jewish people because he was Jewish too. The American Jewry and the Struggle for Freedom and Security was interesting to me because ever since the Dutch West India Company decreed that the Jews of New Amsterdam provide for themselves. And American Jewry has maintained a traditional of providing charitable support for vulnerable members of the Jewish community. I also thought that The Anti-Semitism and World War was interesting because the setting immigration limits in 1924, congress effectively closed the Golden Door to Eastern European Jewish Immigration. The nation’s tendency toward anti-Foreign, anti- Jewish, and anti- Catholic intolerance in the 1920s was reinforced by the world wide Great Depression of the 1930s. I also thought that The Varieties of American Jewish Belief because the Judaism has taken on great variation in America. Its different denotations or branches range from fervent orthodoxy, which stresses scrupulous observance of tradition to Humanistic Judaism which denies the existence of God and believes that human being control their own destiny.