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Don you are welcome. [applause] narrator you are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Like us on facebook at cspan history. Week, American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next, a visit to the National Museum of american and jewish history for a tour of their exhibition, tracing the history of jewish people in america. Present day. The in the second of a twopart visit, we pick up a story in the 1880s, when an era of Mass Immigration brought thousands of immigrants to the United States from Eastern Europe every year. We started ...

See big waves of immigrants coming to america. They included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. Coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is sort of the archetype of the arrival story. People were coming to baltimore, philadelphia, boston, and places you would not think of like galveston, texas, and california as well. We have on display a number of the types of documents immigrants would have needed when coming into these ports. Everything from passports to visas, luggage tags, Health Inspection certificates. These are things that people...

Have more men could go overseas. She worked in washington, d. C. Where she worked as a payroll person. In the 1920s, the fears of immigrants which had been boiling during the time of the great migration to america started to come to a head and eventually leading to the johnson reed act of 1984 which effectively ended immigration by ins instituting quotas. This would of course become a very difficult thing, an obstacle ten years later when a lot of European Jews could have used another safe harbor during the rise of the nazis. The 1920s was a rise of antisemiti antisemitism, largely due to the ...

Museum of american and jewish history for a tour of their exhibition, tracing the history of jewish people in america. In the second exhibit, we pick up a story in the 1880s, when an era rock thousands to east brought thousands of immigrants to eastern from Eastern Europe every year. We started to see big waves of immigrants coming to america. They included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. Coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is the archetype of the arrival story. People were coming to baltimore, philadelphia, boston, and places li...

Antisemitism and the protocols of zion, this was a fraudulent document purportedly outlining a jewish conspiracy to take over the world. It was published during the 1920s. In the 1930s, there was a sort of cultural flourishing in america despite the depression. A lot of really rich artistic activity and so in this area, we look at the rise of the movies in the 1930s, as well as yiddish theatre. We look at the wpa that supported artists in the 1930s. We also look at the political situation in america, a lot of people were espousing different concepts like socialism or zionism. We also explore r...