Reflection-Jewish

The first group of Jewish that came to United States was for religious freedom. The Jewish were ruled and controlled by Brazil and they were intolerance for other religion. In this case it’s the Jewish’s religion. The Jewish were settled at New Amsterdam, which was re-named New York.

This is related to what we have learned because we have learned that Jewish immigration came in three waves. And one reason they came was because of religious freedom because at their country they weren’t allowed to practice their own religion because they weren’t ruled by their own country, they were ruled by Brazil. Jews also came for economic opportunities because they didn’t have offered many jobs at their country. And another group came for socializing. They didn’t’ have much purpose for coming to America. They just came because they wanted to.

Instead of building their own temples, the German Jews simply joined the much larger group of Sephardic Jews. At first, the Sephardic Jews looked down upon the Ashkenazics, and they didn’t’ even allowed sons and daughters to get married in to Sephardic families. Soon, Sephardic started to accept the Ashkenazic Jews and accepted marriage between the two sects.

We have learned today that Jews are religious and studied in temples but I didn’t learn that they shared with other family members. I thought when they studied in temples. It was just like the regular kind of temples now…everyone is in a group mixed together. Also I learned form reading this article that Sephardic Jews didn’t allowed marriage between Ashkenazic but soon they were accepted. The Sephardic wasn’t against them as much. They also started to accept the way they were.

Sephardic persecuted the Ashkenazic Jews, but all Jews living in the American colonies experienced persecution by the Christians. Anti-Jewish sentiment never was strong in the United States, especially compared to that of Europe. Many came to in search of a better life, while in Europe they were always seen as the single minority. In the US society, the Jews were accepted.

Today in class, I thought that Jews weren’t accepted by many of the Americans but by reading this article I now know that Jews were accepted. Or was I just confused? I know that that many came in search for a better life and many had immigrated to United Stated because of persecution. But overall, emigrating from one place to another is hard and the Jews only wanted to come here for their own religion, economic opportunities and “socializing.”