Early American Jews
Waves of Immigration
Traveling Suitcase
Classroom Guests
Influential Jewish Americans
100
This city has the oldest synagogue still standing in the U.S.
What is Newport, RI?
100
The first wave of immigration was Jews from one of these 3 countries.
What is Holland, Brazil, or Spain?
100
This is the name of the 17 year old girl whose suitcase we investigated during the "Traveling Suitcase" program.
Who is Eva Baen?
100
Sam Trotz talked to our class about growing up Jewish 70-80 years in this Tennessee city.
What is Nashville?
100
This American Jew invented denim jeans.
Who is Levi Strauss?
200
Beginning in the 1400's, Jews were expelled from Spain during this religious persecution.
What is "The Spanish Inquisition?"
200
The second wave of Jewish immigration began in the 1840's from this country.
What is Germany.
200
The National Museum of American Jewish History, which brought us the "Traveling Suitcase" program is located in this U.S. city.
What is Philadelphia?
200
Viv Trotz talked to our class about her experience growing up Jewish in the 1930's in this midwestern city.
What is St. Louis?
200
This Jewish American is one of the most famous movie directors of all time.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
300
Because most of the early American Jews were from Spanish heritage, they are considered this type of Jew.
What is "Sephardic?"
300
The third wave of Jewish immigrants to the United States (beginning in the early 1900's) was mainly from one of these two countries.
What is Poland or Russia?
300
Like many Jewish immigrants of her time, Eva got a job in this type of factory.
What is a shirtwaist / garment / clothing factory?
300
Phyllis and Sol Steingard talked to our class about growing up Jewish in the 1930's in this U. S. city?
What is Philadelphia?
300
This Jewish American is one of the co-founders of Google.
Who is Sergey Brin?
400
Although Truro Synagogue is the oldest temple still standing in the U.S., this city housed the first synagogue built in 1655.
What is New York City.
400
German Jewish immigrants mainly settled in this part of the United States: the Northeast, the Midwest, or the South?
What is the Midwest?
400
We saw Eva's passport from this country.
What is Russia?
400
The women FJC congregants who talked to our class about growing up as American Jews approximately 80 years ago were not allowed to become a ________.
What is a Bat Mitzvah?
400
This Jewish American created such comic book heroes as Spiderman, the Hulk, and Iron Man.
Who is Stan Lee?
500
This early American Jew help finance much of the Revolutionary War.
Who was Haym Salomon?
500
One of the main reasons the Russia Jews came to America in the early 1900's was due to these "organized massacres" in their villages.
What is "pogroms?"
500
Immigrants coming to America without much money had to travel on this lowest level of the ships.
What is "steerage?"
500
Nearly all our classroom visitors told us that their parents emigrated from this country.
What is Russia?
500
This American Jew of Civil War time period helped Clara Barton found the American Red Cross.
Who is Adolphus Solomons?
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