Talk:History of the Jews in the United States
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I created this article because the pre-20th century one was horrible (the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 did not have a great article on it, and that is where it was taken from) and did not include recent history. This is now all original material, with a few of the early sections taken from the older article. Please help improve. --Goodoldpolonius2 18:45, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Does this article include all the information from Jewish history in the United States (pre-20th century), or only select parts of it? Jayjg | (Talk) 19:33, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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- I cut a lot of text from the first article, because it was pasted wholesale from the Jewish Encyclopedia and was of marginal to no value to someone living in 2006, as opposed to 1906 (please feel free to look at the history if you want to confirm) or was repeateded in the subarticles on the history of Jews in Colonial America, the History of the Jews in the US (Education), etc. I was originally just going to edit the first article, but as the original did not make a lot of sense, editing turned into a wholesale rewrite (like so many Jewish Encyclopedia paste jobs) but take a look yourself and see if anything significant is missing. --Goodoldpolonius2 20:04, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Francis Salvador
It looks like he died in South Carolina and was from there? He was the first Jew to die during the American Revolution, not the "first revolutionary to be killed in Georgia". Anybody care to correct this? Thanks.68.99.154.144 04:23, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
- I corrected that and linked him to his own article. Thanks!Tom 16:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Factual error
Under the American Revolution section, the Touro Synagogue is referred to as the first synagogue in the United States, this is an innaccurate statement. The first synagogue belonged to Shearith Israel. 63.167.2.89 17:58, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pogram
I reverted an edit that seemed liked pretty charged verbage, but I am totally open to consensus..as long as it agrees with mine :) j/kTom 00:39, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Grammatical Error?
"But none of the early migratory movements assumed the significance and volume of that from Russia and neighboring countries."
This sounds like someone deleted half the sentence accidently, yet it's the first sentence in the crux of the article.Jay Kay 15:50, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jews in the American West
This section has many grammar mistakes and missing citations. Could a scholar revise? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vajrapoppy (talk • contribs) 05:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Anti-Semitism in the US section
Can the last part of that section be researched better? The source is an ADL poll. They say that 29% of Hispanics are anti-semites and 35% of non US born Hispanics are anti-semites. Thats ALOT of people being tagged with that label it seems. I am NOT saying it's not true, I was wondering if there are any other polls or what/how they determined their definition of anti-semite. I'll try to research this more and the poll that was used.... Thanks!
[edit] number of migrants
"From Russia alone the emigration rose from an annual average of 4,100 in the decade 1871-80 to an annual average of 20,700 in the decade 1881-90": does this information refer to all the emigrants from Russia or only to the emigrants who went to the U. S.? Could you please name sources? --Stilfehler 18:33, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Is there any reason we're not using these images?
 Early Jewish Congregations in the 13 Colonies |
 US Map Jewish Congregations after 1776 |
 Jewish Population by US States |
I just found these images on commons and found that they aren't being used here. I can't find any discussion regarding them here nor does it seem they've ever been used in the article. Did we just not know about them, or is there a reason they're not being used? Shavua Tov! —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 03:32, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Forgotten page
It looks like this article was once a spin-off of another article that was eventually moved and then redirected here, and hasn't much been looked at since. It seems a merge may be appropriate, though I'll let others more familiar check it out. Mackan79 17:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] See also section
I removed links that already appear in the article as well as others per relevance. If they can be worked into the article, so be it, Thanks, --Tom (talk) 14:42, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
- I removed the last two as well. --Tom 20:59, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Jews in the Government --- Highly biased; please revise
From the period just before the turn of the 20th century on, the Jewish political influence in the United States has been deep-felt and often counterproductive to the interests of the United States as a whole. The Balfour Declaration was perhaps the beginning of events that led to 911. Three books, They Dare to Speak Out, Attack on the Liberty, and The Power of Israel in the United States, speak volumes about pro-Zionist and Israel-first American activists orchestrating a plethora of pro-Israel, pro-Jewish and pro-Zionist policies worldwide. Whenever a public official or anyone else in the media speaks in ways that are perceived as negative toward the pro-Israeli lobby, they are generally silenced by false but heavy and effective anti-Semite charges.
I consider the statements in this paragraph not only to be highly speculative and even inflammatory, but largely untrue. This section should be removed, or, if it is to remain, should be supported by verifiable fact. Jewish political influence, to my knowledge, is a fallacy or, at most, insignificant. Mhzmaster (talk) 07:21, 1 February 2008 (UTC)Mhzmaster
[edit] Refugees from Nazi Germany
In this section the second paragraph states (without references or links): "the United States accepted only 21,000 refugees from Europe". Is this figure correct? Is this total refugees or just Jewish refugees? Also, it's referring to an undated report. More importantly, the final sentence of this section says: "About 100,000 German Jews did arrive in the 1930s, escaping Hitler’s persecution." To me, this sentence appears to have been added to this section by a different hand. Plainly the two figures are contradictory. Does anybody know the true figure, and with a few dates?--PhilipT-K (talk) 21:15, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
