SWK 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Irving Berlin
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First person: the devil that never dies (pp. 115-121): this section of the book describes how jews have always been the scapegoats from being blamed for the plague to the great depression. Even in the 1600s when jewish immigrants came to new york as a safe place to live, they were seen as evil and troublemakers. Jewish immigrants mainly came from germany after the civil war and were well educated. Though the second wave that came were a group of 2 million poverty- stricken jews from russia and eastern europe. Fear of the jews only increased after world war i, and the jews feared what was happening in europe would happen in america and they would be persecuted just for their religion. Once the first america-jew was elected into the supreme court in 1916, it helped alleviate the fear americans had of the jews and they began to be more included into everyday culture.
