New York – A six-hour, documentary from PBS show cases The history of Jews in America integral to the history of the United States itself, and “The Jewish Americans” sheds needed light on who we are — Jew and Gentile alike.
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Detailing the prejudice and struggle to succeed that greeted immigrant Jews, the series describes the rise of commercial successes such as Joseph Spiegel, who took the tradition of the Jewish peddler and turned it into a fortune in mail-order catalog marketing, and Levi Strauss, who made his name on the sturdy pants he sewed for miners in the California Gold Rush.
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its sad that producers of the documentary use tony kushner to speak about the birth of israel when kushner is one of todays most outspoken anti-zionists. was farrakhan booked that month? barely any mention was made of the orthodox community and their contributions. if not for us, it would have been a history lesson as opposed to a documentary.
It hardly brings out the beutiy of the religiuos jews, they cover only the Seculer.