CAS RN 384 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: War Refugee Board, Bermuda Conference, Silver Legion Of America
26 Apr 2016
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First country to give jews full citizen ship when america declared itself independent. America establishes the separation of church and state - great sense of division needed and this helped jews make their way through society. Less intense anti-jewish sentiment because you don"t have the competition and the collision. Jews took an interest in different aspects of culture such as sports. Also, it is the only country in the world where until 1923, it never had official state sponsored anti-semitism. Until lincoln, where something happened with the army and jews and he did something research this. Prejudice in the 1923 immigration laws that changed open immigration. Systemic anti-semitism is something very far from the american experience. The outcome may have been different but the jews were going to be murdered come what may. After wwi, woodrow wilson tried to get the us congress to pass and join the league of nation. This began the policies of isolationism, in which the.
