The American Jewish Experience through the Nineteenth Century: Immigration and Acculturation Q and As.

• How is colonial Jewish Immigration different from the Third Wave of Jewish immigration at the turn of the century? I’m not quite sure what this question means but I’ll try my best to answer it*

Colonial Jewish Immigration is different form the Third Wave of Jewish immigration at the turn of the century because Jewish immigration in the third waves was all about adventure but the Jewish immigration in the first and second wave came for a living for economic opportunities and religious freedom.

· What new information about Jews in America do you learn from reading this?

Some information that I learned about Jews in America from reading this is that some Jews in the sixteenth century sought refuge in the young Calvinist republic of The Netherlands. And that the beginning of Jewish communal life in North America started when 23 Jews sailed into the remote of Dutch port of New Amsterdam and requested to stay. I also learned that Colonial Jews never exceeded one tenth of one percent of the American population. Jews also move to eastern seaboard to find opportunities in the Midwest, south and west.

· Under the heading “Historians Debate,” how is the information similar to the first Chapter of Bread Givers?

The information of Historians Debate similar to the first Chapter of Bread Givers because in both story it mentioned that it was a struggle of Jews to gain full civil rights in Europe in the late 1800s. Other scholars are more impressed by the differences between the European and American Jewish situations. American Jewry, they insist, was "post-emancipation" from the start.