When it came to the issue of assimilating immigrants on American shores and deporting "Alien Slackers" (and other assorted foreign ingrates), few groups yelled louder than the editors at The American Legion Weekly. In this anonymous opinion piece, one writer gently advocates for the recognition of American English.
Posted above is an image depicting an Americanization class at the Rodeph Sholom Sisterhood in 1920. The woman is more than likely a German, and the pupils are Russians. I remember reading in The Jewish Mystique that the German-American Jews made great efforts to assimilate the Russian Jews because they thought they were all such total noobs.<\i>
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