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- One of the famous "Four Chaplains" who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the USAT Dorchester during WWII.

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-Widely considered one of the greatest American songwriters.
-He wrote and composed "God Bless America" in 1918.

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Irving Berlin: National Museum of American Jewish History

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One of the 18 pieces created for permanent exhibit "Only In America", at the National Museum of American Jewish History. The installation includes tributes to Steven Spielberg, Barbara Streisand, Golda Meir and Albert Einstein. Narrated by Aimee Jolson

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-Author of the poem
"The New Colossus", which was mounted on the Statue of Liberty in 1903.

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Jewish People Who Made Positive Contributions To The United States

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Jewish People Who Made Positive Contributions To The United States

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In 1938, Americans were asked how they felt about immigrants. Most people said that they thought the immigrants should stay away because it would bring the US down during the Holocaust and World War II. Only a few people supported the
Jews and thought we should take them in. Now people are more open to letting Jewish immigrants in if they come legally.

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Obstacles For Jewish Immigration Over Time

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Obstacles For Jewish Immigration Over Time

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-The 1917 Act included a literacy test that required immigrants over the age of 16 to show reading comprehension in any language and also increased the tax paid by immigrants upon their arrival. This law was allowed to be passed on account of how national security became questionable during WWI.
-The Immigration Act of 1924 also known as the Johnson-Reed Act limited the number of immigrants  allowed into the U.S. with a national quota that only gave immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the U.S. as of the 1890 census.

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The following is a quote from a speaker who attended a meeting of the Jewish community of Kiev which describes the Jewish campaign to immigrate to the United States:
"There is no hope for Israel in Russia. The salvation of the downtrodden people lies in other parts, in a land beyond the seas, which knows no distinction of race or faith, which is a mother to Jew and Gentile alike. In the great republic is our redemption from the brutalities and ignominies to which we are subjected in this our birthplace. In America we shall find rest; the stars and stripes will wave over the true home of our people. To America, brethren! To America!"

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- Out of all the ethnic and national groups that lived under Russian rule, the Jews were by far the most isolated population. They suffered from the reign of oppressive laws to the point that most did not consider themselves Russians.
- When the Russian czar (emperor) was assassinated in 1881, the Jews were made the scapegoat and a series of state-sponsored massacres known as pogroms were started against the Jewish.
- For tens of thousands of Jews, this was the breaking point - the point where they could no longer remain in Russia.

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From Poland ->                                                             < -  From Russia

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From Poland ->                                                             < -  From Russia

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-Jews from both regions immigrated in
large masses to the U.S. from 1880-
1920.
-An estimated 3 million Jews did this
in the above time period .
-By 1920, over a third of the Jewish
population of the Russian Empire,
which controlled Poland at the time,
had emigrated.
-The percentage of these Jewish
immigrants that returned to their
home country was almost nill - less
than that of any other large
immigrant group. When they came to
the United States, they came to stay.

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As they immigrated to the United States, the Jews entered themselves in the clothing industry, trade, cigar manufacture, construction, and food production with a lot of struggling. In America, the number of Jews volunteering to organize corporative bodies dropped and former European institutions were dropped.

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Most people rely on religious schools to teach Jewish traditions to their kids. This helps them become familiar with their culture but at the same time doesn't interfere with their new American culture.

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New York has one of the highest populations of Jews in America, especially in Brooklyn. There are about 561,000 Jewish residents in Brooklyn, which is about 25%. In New York City, there are 1.1 million Jews. The first Jew settlement in America was in Dutch New Amsterdam, which became New York and explains why there is such a high population of Jews there.

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In 1880, only 1 out of 6 American Jews was from Eastern Europe, and 40 years later, 5 out of 6 American Jews had immigrated from countries such as Russia and Poland. Thousands of Jewish immigrants travel from Europe to America every year when there used to be only a few hundred before 1900.