The First Jews in America
The type of Jews who immigrated from Spain and Portugal.
What is Sephardim or Sephardic Jews?
The type of Jews who immigrated from Europe.
What is the Ashkenazi?
The countries the first Jews who immigrated to America were from.
What are Spain and Portugal.
This famous Jewish scientist won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The name of the Jews who converted to the Catholic faith during the Spanish Inquisition.
Who are the Conversos?
The job that many Jews found success in when they came to America, where they traveled around and sold wares.
What is a peddler?
When arriving to America, you must go through a series of tests in this location.
What is Ellis Island?
This event killed about 150 workers, joining the most of which were Jewish women. This led to many Jews joining the labor movement.
What is the triangle shirtwaist fire?
The name of the first Jewish settlement, later known as New York.
What is New Amersterdam?
In the 1800's the country a huge influx of the Jews from Europe immigrated from.
What is Germany?
Many new Jewish Immigrants worked in these during late 1800's into the 1900's.
What is factories or sweatshops?
Sam Gompers championed strikes with this union.
What is the cigar factory union?
Luis de Torres was this man's translator on one of the earliest ships to Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The sect of Judaism was started by the German Jews.
What is Reform Judaism?
Many of the eastern European Jews lived in this area of New York.
What is the Lower East Side?
In this year, Congress passed a law limiting the number of immigrants from Poland, Russia, and Romania.
When is 1924?
This is the first Synagogue in America.
What is the Touro Synagogue?
Name the family who not only invented jeans during the Gold Rush, but donated a large portion of the fortune to Eretz Yisrael.
Who is the Strauss Family?
A popular way some Jews to become rich and famous was this sport.
What is boxing?
This major event made it even more difficult for Jews to go to college.
What is the Great Depression?