A History of Jewish American Achievement

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Eight half-hour shows chronicle the story of Jewish Americans, their culture, their achievements, and their contributions to the United States.

This series chronicles the amazing story of Jewish Americans and their 350 year history in the United States from the first settlers who came ashore at New Amsterdam in 1654 to the entrepreneurs of the Information Age.

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The Jewish Settlers Come to America28 minutes$6.00
1654 - The First Jewish Pioneers Arrive in the New World4 minutes$2.00
1714 - Luis Moses Gomez Starts Thriving Fur Trade4 minutes$2.00
1778 - Jewish Americans Aid the American Revolution4 minutes$2.00
1819 - Rebecca Gratz Founds the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society4 minutes$2.00
1843 - B'nai B'rith is Founded3 minutes$2.00
1844 - David Levy Yulee is the First Jewish American U.S. Senator4 minutes$2.00
Jewish Americans Spread Out Across the Country29 minutes$6.00
1860 - Uriah P. Levy Becomes First Jewish American Commodore in U.S. Navy5 minutes$2.00
1873 - Levi Strauss Patents Blue Jeans4 minutes$2.00
1876 - From Immigrants to Settlers: Jewish Americans on the Western Frontier4 minutes$2.00
1886 - Samuel Gompers is Elected First President of the American Federation of Labor6 minutes$2.00
1903 - Oscar Straus is the First Jewish American Appointed to a Presidential Cabinet5 minutes$2.00
Jewish Americans Succeed in All Walks of American Life29 minutes$6.00
1903 - Emma Lazarus Poem is Inscribed on the Statue of Liberty4 minutes$2.00
1907 - Albert A. Michelson is the First American to Win Nobel Prize in Physics5 minutes$2.00
1912 - Harry Houdini Performs His Greatest Escape6 minutes$2.00
1916 - Louis Brandeis is the First Jewish American Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court3 minutes$2.00
1919 - Jewish Americans Found Hollywood6 minutes$2.00
A Golden Age for Jewish Americans29 minutes$6.00
1925 - Florence Prag Kahn Becomes the First Jewish American Woman in Congress4 minutes$2.00
1925 - Edna Ferber, First Jewish American to Win Pulitzer Prize5 minutes$2.00
1927 - Jolson and Gershwin Bring Jazz onto the American Stage6 minutes$2.00
1935 - The Marx Brothers Release A Night at the Opera4 minutes$2.00
1938 - Painter Max Weber Founds Linear Expressionism4 minutes$2.00
Jewish Americans and World War II29 minutes$6.00
1939 - Albert Einstein Pens Letter to Support Atomic Bomb Research5 minutes$2.00
1939 - Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany are Turned Away from American Shores4 minutes$2.00
1941 - 1945 - Jewish Americans Fight with Valor in WWII5 minutes$2.00
1942 - Physicist Robert Oppenheimer Leads Team to Develop First Atom Bomb4 minutes$2.00
1945 - Bess Myerson is Crowned Miss America4 minutes$2.00
The Flowering of Jewish Americans29 minutes$6.00
1946 - Aaron Copland Debuts His Third Symphony4 minutes$2.00
1947 - David Sarnoff: The Father of American TV5 minutes$2.00
1948 - Brandeis University is Founded3 minutes$2.00
1948 - Arthur Miller Pens Death of a Salesman3 minutes$2.00
1948-2010 - Jewish American Authors Expand Literary Genres3 minutes$2.00
1953 - Jonas Salk Develops Polio Vaccine3 minutes$2.00
1954 - Admiral Hyman Rickover Builds America's Nuclear Navy3 minutes$2.00
Jewish Americans Enter Mainstream American Culture29 minutes$6.00
1963 - Betty Friedan Leads the Women's Movement4 minutes$2.00
1965 - Bob Dylan Shocks the Newport Folk Festival5 minutes$2.00
1965 - Hank Greenberg, Sandy Koufax, Mark Spitz6 minutes$2.00
1968 - Mike Wallace Establishes Investigative TV Journalism4 minutes$2.00
1970 - Samuelson and Friedman, Nobel Prize Winning Economists5 minutes$2.00
The New Jewish American Identity28 minutes$6.00
1970 - Judy Blume Changes Children's Literature3 minutes$2.00
1977 - Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg4 minutes$2.00
1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg is Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court3 minutes$2.00
1996 - Sergey Brin Starts Google3 minutes$2.00
2003 - Mark Zuckerberg Launches Facebook4 minutes$2.00
2009 - Jewish American Doll Debuted by American Girl, Inc.5 minutes$2.00
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