British Attempt to Prevent Jewish Growth of Palestine (The Spectator, 1921)Confronting the issue of growing unrest in British Palestine, Winston Churchill cautioned the British colonial administrators to soothe the tempers of both Arab and Jewish Palestinians while attempting to limit the growth of the Jewish population.
Jewish Population Increase in the U.S. (The Outlook, 1922)Pogroms and other less violent forms of Antisemitism in Eastern Europe had resulted in a large increase of the Jewish migration to the United States by 1922. This growth in the Jewish population swelled from an estimated 1,777,185 in 1907 to an estimated 3,390,301 by 1918. The following one page article includes a map of the continental United States featuring those portions of the U.S. with the largest Jewish populations in 1922.
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Arguments For and Against a Jewish State (Current Opinion, 1919)This article discusses the various opinions between several Jewish organizations and prominent Rabbis in the United States as to what an independent Israel would mean for American Jews.
Predicting America's Unique Relationship With Israel (The Literary Digest, 1917)Some thirty-one years prior to the official establishment of Israel as a nation, one columnist could read the tea leaves well enough to see that the United States would serve as the protectorate of the young country.
Click here to read a 1933 magazine article concerning the rise of secularism in American society.
Click here to read a 1933 magazine article concerning the rise of secularism in American society.
New York and the Real Jew (The Independent, 1921)An energetic and wonderful four page article which gives an account of the Jewish growth of New York. Even as early as 1921 "nearly half of the Jews of North America lived there" and every fourth New Yorker was a Jew.
Click here to read about the Jewish population growth in the Unites States during the 1920s.
German Anti-Semitism in 1915 (Harper's Weekly, 1915)A two column item on anti-Semitism
as it existed in Germany during World War I:
"In the calamity of war we act now as if we were one heart and one soul with the Jews. However, and I am pained to say it, I must declare that the Jewish question remains and will perhaps, just because of the war, become still more acute. The Jews are a foreign people and are our opponents in France, Russia and England, together with the enormous means at their disposal."
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*Watch a Quick Clip from the German Expressionist Film,
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