Talk:History of the Jews in the United States
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I created this article because the pre-20th century one was horrible (the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 did not have a great article on it, and that is where it was taken from) and did not include recent history. This is now all original material, with a few of the early sections taken from the older article. Please help improve. --Goodoldpolonius2 18:45, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Does this article include all the information from Jewish history in the United States (pre-20th century), or only select parts of it? Jayjg | (Talk) 19:33, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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- I cut a lot of text from the first article, because it was pasted wholesale from the Jewish Encyclopedia and was of marginal to no value to someone living in 2006, as opposed to 1906 (please feel free to look at the history if you want to confirm) or was repeateded in the subarticles on the history of Jews in Colonial America, the History of the Jews in the US (Education), etc. I was originally just going to edit the first article, but as the original did not make a lot of sense, editing turned into a wholesale rewrite (like so many Jewish Encyclopedia paste jobs) but take a look yourself and see if anything significant is missing. --Goodoldpolonius2 20:04, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Francis Salvador
It looks like he died in South Carolina and was from there? He was the first Jew to die during the American Revolution, not the "first revolutionary to be killed in Georgia". Anybody care to correct this? Thanks.68.99.154.144 04:23, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
- I corrected that and linked him to his own article. Thanks!Tom 16:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Factual error
Under the American Revolution section, the Touro Synagogue is referred to as the first synagogue in the United States, this is an innaccurate statement. The first synagogue belonged to Shearith Israel. 63.167.2.89 17:58, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pogram
I reverted an edit that seemed liked pretty charged verbage, but I am totally open to consensus..as long as it agrees with mine :) j/kTom 00:39, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Grammatical Error?
"But none of the early migratory movements assumed the significance and volume of that from Russia and neighboring countries."
This sounds like someone deleted half the sentence accidently, yet it's the first sentence in the crux of the article.Jay Kay 15:50, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anti-Semetism in the US section
Can the last part of that section be researched better? The source is an ADL poll. They say that 29% of Hispanics are anti-semites and 35% of non US born Hispanics are anti-semites. Thats ALOT of people being tagged with that label it seems. I am NOT saying it's not true, I was wondering if there are any other polls or what/how they determined their definition of anti-semite. I'll try to research this more and the poll that was used.... Thanks!
[edit] number of migrants
"From Russia alone the emigration rose from an annual average of 4,100 in the decade 1871-80 to an annual average of 20,700 in the decade 1881-90": does this information refer to all the emigrants from Russia or only to the emigrants who went to the U. S.? Could you please name sources? --Stilfehler 18:33, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
