1. Jewish Immigration
In America and Hawaiʻi

2. Jewish Immigration
In America and Hawaiʻi

3. To America-Push Factors
Religious Persecution
SPAIN
16th century-Holy Inquisition
1880’s - Russia
Kishinev pogrom
By million Jews
At first, did not get along with German Jews and native-born Jews
Poverty, Persecution, Political Disillusionment
First half of 19th century
German and Polish Jews
Understand Judiasm
Russia-young Eastern European Jews - spoke Yiddish and were very traditional

4. To America-Pull Factors
Religious Freedom
Maintain cultural identity - HOW
Opportunity
make money
bring loved ones
Some didn’t make it

5. American Policies and the Jewish Population
Revolutionary War
Freedom of Religion and democracy
Civil War
Anti-semetic stereotypes
General Order No. 11
Rayner-Harris National Quarantine Act (1893)
Cholera-Russia (1891)
Russian-Jewish typhus outbreak (1892)
Sets up procedure for medical examinations
President could suspend immigration
Fought for freedom w/ other colonists
--very important in light of religious persecution
Civil War
-scapegoats, chaplain,
-no Jews allowed in army - Lincoln revoked the order
3, 1892, - 1,200 Russian Jewish immigrants -
- placed them in quarantine to keep the epidemic from spreading.
-The chairman of the U.S. Senate committee on Immigration subsequently proposed legislation severely
restricting immigration, including the imposition of a literacy requirement.

6. Jewish Lifestyle in America
American-Jews became a prominent world community
Type of Judaism Changes
Worked mainly in the dressing and textile industry
Children move away from traditionalist ways
3rd largest group in world. New York most centralized city of Jews in All the world.
, huge boom in immigration (mostly Easter European)
It also realigned American Jewry's politics and priorities, injecting new elements of tradition, nationalism, and socialism into Jewish communal life, and seasoning its culture with liberal dashes of East European Jewish folkway

7. Hawaiʻi’s Small Jewish Population
Little History available
1798-Whaling Ship
“Jew Cook”
Kalākauaʻs Torah
1840’s - traders from England and Germany
Jew Cook - Written in a sailor’s log - Ebeneezer Townsend
A Torah scroll and yad ("pointer") owned by the royal family of Hawaii show a connection between it and the early Jewish community. How the scroll and yad came into the possession of Kind David Kalakaua is not clear
The scroll, which has disappeared, was borrowed from the descendants of the royal family for use by the Jewish community on holidays as late as The yad is now in the possession of the only synagogue in the state, Temple Emanuel, a Reform congregation.

8. Hawaiʻi’s Small Jewish Population
Hebrew Benevolent Society
Jewish Cemetery at Pearl City Junction
Honolulu Jewish Community - Est 1938
Temple Emanuel - Est. 1951
Population Today (2006) - 6,990
0.5% of Total Population
Diversity question?
First organized Jewish society

9. Bibliography
Mintz, S. (2007). Migration and Disease. Digital History. Retrieved October 19, 2011 fromhttp://
-Credible because the site is updated daily and the information comes from a History text book that was created by the College of Education and the Department of History at the Univeristy of Houston, hence the .edu.

10. Bibliography
•Sarna, J., and J. Golden. "The American Jewish Experience through the Nineteenth Century: Immigration and Acculturation." National Humanities Center. National Humanities Center, Web. 19 Oct <
Credible because it was created by a college professor for the National Humanities Center which is an organization dedicated to educating the community about humanities. They also included a link to a “works cited” page.

11. Bibliography
•Sheskin, Ira, and Arnold Dashefsky. "Jewish Population of the United States by State." Jewish Virtual Library. American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, Web. 19 Oct <
Credible because it was produced by a Jewish organization and cites its resource.

12. Bibliography
•Palamino, Michael. "Jews in Hawaiʻi." Encyclopeida Judacia. N.p., Web. 20 Oct <