Exam 3 Yellow Press Mafia Myths Southern Italians in America Most associated with the mafia mutual aid societies became more of the mafia Mafia 13th century term meaning a place of refuge only refers to only southern Italians We already thought they were criminals Prohibition made a lot of money for southern Italians Slang term for newspaper that aren t really trusted like the enquirer always talked about the southern Italians Have 2 components 1 All southern Italians are in the Mafia 2 All organized crime is the mafia which was not true Only 0003 of southern Italians were in the Mafia Al Capone Arrested for tax evasion Southern Italians in America 1920 and Today blue collar workers Didn t push their kids to go to school so they became and stuck as WWII Internment Southern Italians were intern as well as the Japanese Ethnic Enclave Jewish Immigrants Push factor Christ Killer Economics Result of Anti Semitism When the Italians began to see that the Americans saw them as a threat they began to assimilate into the American culture frank Sinatra and Rosie the Riveter All Japanese were interned for southern Italians only immigrants were interned They tended to stay in the general populated area with the rest of those like them Diaspora a movement of Jews out of their homeland 16 AD spread all over the world Anti Semitism anti Jewish wherever they went they were the minority population Killed the foundation of Christianity aspect of anti Semitism Blamed for all bad things Banking and Finances Usury associated with Christian population sin of profiting off of someone else s suffering credit card debt and paying interest 1100 to 1800 ran banking Were not allowed to be educated learned banking from home Denied rights of citizenship Jewish Immigration Sephardic Jews Spanish Jews from Spain The Spanish Inquisition religious persecution keep Catholicism as official religion of Spain and its colonies and at the head is the king and queen instead of the pope Auto de Fe perform an act of faith recite a bible verse proof that you have converted to Catholicism Alhambra Decree edict of expulsion all people of Jewish heritage need to get out of span and Spanish colonies Formative Wave Immigration most ended up in new York city what was then New Amsterdam New Amsterdam were they went to modern day New York city 3 000 settled More about Sephardic Jews They are middle class and upper class people fleeing persecution not poverty Invested in things they could wear portable wealth They stayed near the cities because they had business there and stayed near each other to go to synagogue In 1820 15 000 Jews living in the U S In 1850 30 000 Jews living in the U S 1880 2 5 million Jews living in the U S Religious Freedom push factor 300 000 Peddlers most Jewish germen men had this job traveling salesmen Sold best product at the lowest price They founded general store were everyone went to get what they needed Started catalogs so people from all over could buy their goods Reformed Judaism allows them to blend in types of Judaism that comes from Germany to try to blend in as much as possible 1880 1920 most immigrants come in New Immigrants didn t mean good back then Religion new immigrants were not all protestant not wasp religions were strange Language will not speak English Unskilled pull factor was the industrial revolution Region came from eastern and southern Europe which were regions we didn t prefer immigrants to come from German Jews First wave 1830s Second wave immigration Eastern European Jews Eastern European Jews in America Orthodox Judaism Ashkkenazic Jews mainly came from eastern Europe central Europe and Russia Came to the U S and ruined everything for the Jewish Immigrants Russification process of trying to turn other populations into Russia s mainly forming them into Russian orthodox Christians Military Service forced Jewish boys to serve in the military by being forced to serve in the military at the age of 8 for 25 years Fighting back would injury children to save them Marriage Laws passed for girls Jewish girls and women can t marry Jewish boys or men Pogroms 1871 1917 in Russia Population elimination by killing people took place all around the world Tsar Alexander II Assassination march 13 1881 was blamed on the Jews Over 100 000 Jews killed 2 million came in 2nd wave didn t spread out Speak English or were Christians and poor Lower East side NYC Yiddish spoken by Ashkkenazic Jews only Majority Ashkkenazic Jews Torah Jewish holy book and Talmud Jewish book written by Jewish religious scholars tells people how to interpret the Torah Orthodox V Reformed practiced their religion in different ways Orthodox Follow the torah and Talmud Follow a strict dress code Saturday is the holy day reformed is Sunday Synagogues have men on one side women on the other rabbi speaks Hebrew Eats kosher foods Reformed Dress however they wanted tried blend in with the norm The rabbi speaks the normal language and the congregation is not Live their lives based on the torah segregated Chose not to eat kosher They came in large numbers were in the poor class Jobs helped the Ashkkenazic Jews get settled Sweatshops American Jews helped out Ashkkenazic Jews by doing this getting women jobs sewing and Ironing clothes Kids didn t work education was more important Kids went to public schools boys went to religious schools Tenements living place for Ashkkenazic Jews disgusting and run down places Orthodox moved up in social class in one generation Education first community to create scholarships mainly for boys to become something great like a doctor or a lawyer and come back to help his community Politics Ashkkenazic Jews supported the U S having very relaxed immigration laws Conservative Judaism uniquely an American phenomenon middle ground between reformed and orthodox The Sabbath is Saturday Eastern European Jews in the 20th century The Holocaust Concentration Labor Camps Extermination camps Extermination camps Nazi Human Experimentation Death marches 1944 1945 Racism The 2nd kkk progressive error clan lead by J Walter Simmons Leo frank Jewish American who was lynched by the kkk was lynched in public Henry ford created the assembly line hated Jews The Dearborn Independent publication were he printed articles of his opinions about Jews If you brought a ford you would get a free subscription The Protocols of the Elders of Zion fabricated document made after Tsar Alexander ford made it seem that it was true WWII 1939
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