The Jewish Americans

By the 1870s, 250,000 Jewish-Americans settle across the United States. By the early 20th century, more than two million Eastern European Jews gravitate to Manhattan.

Anti-Semitism continues to follow Jews even as they succeed in business and entertainment. The Jewish respond to Hitler and the Holocaust.

In 1946, with Hitler defeated and six million European Jews murdered, American Jews were fighting despair yet, by the 1950s, a spirit of optimism had emerged as discrimination against Jews in daily life began to ease.