1)  From March 24, 2011: The official number of New Yorkers, 8,175,133, is a census record, but only 166,000 more people than in 2000. See article.

2) From March 25, 2011: New York City’s two dioceses haven’t done enough to attract Mexican immigrants, critics say, even as they fill pews. See article.

Injustices against Latinos in Danbury, CT.

Here is an article about allowing Mexican trucks to enter the USA.

LECTURE AIDS – LECTURE 3

The 18th and 19th Centuries

Mithnagdim, Hasidim, Makilim

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Count Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre

Jewish Bund

Ansky’s play The Dybbuk

Konstantin Stanislavsky

Khanan and Leah

Great Russian dramatist Stanislowski

Benjamin Harshav, scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature

Great Yiddish Writers of 19th and early 20th century

Mendele Moyker Sforim

I.L. Peretz

Sholem Aleichem

Hassia Diamond

Pale of Settlement

Czar Alexander II

Baron de Hirsch

LECTURE AIDS—Lecture 2

1783 Treaty of Paris (France)

1803 Louisiana Purchase (France)

1819 Florida (Spain)

1842 top of Maine (Treaty, England)

1845 Texas annexed (Mexico)

1846 Oregon (Treaty England)

1848 Arizona California, New Mexico (Treaty Mexico)

1853 Gadsden Purchase

FORCED MIGRATION OF 6 MILLION AFRICANS BETWEEN 1700 AND 1810

5.8% to British North America

9.6% to Spanish America

23.2% to British Caribbean

22.3% to French Caribbean

7.6% to Dutch Caribbean

31.3% to Portuguese Brazil

0.4% to Danish Caribbean

OVER 60 MILLION IMMIGRANTS TO US BETWEEN 1880 AND 1924

9,000,000 NW Europeans

8,200,000 E Europeans (2.3 million Jews)

5,300,000 S Europeans  (4 million Italians)

650,000 Asians  (today ¼ of the immigrants in U.S. are Asian)

475,000  Mexicans

50,000  Australasians

20,000  Africans

IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS IN U.S

1875 – First law.  It bars convicts, prostitutes and “coolies” (Chinese contract laborers.

1882 – Chinese immigration curtailed.  Lunatics, idiots, and any person unable to take care of himself/herself without being a charge to the public.

1885 – All contract laborers

1891 – Paupers, polygamists, insane and persons with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease.

1903–Epileptics, professional beggars, and anarchists.

1907—Imbeciles, feeble-minded, tuberculars, people with physical or mental defects that would affect the way they made a living.  Children under 16 without parents. “Gentlemen’s agreement with Japan.”

1917—Literacy test.  Virtually all immigrants from Asia.

1921—Temporary quotas: 3% of each nationality’s representation in 1910.  Annual ceiling of 165,000.

1924 – 2% of the 1890 population – annual ceiling of 165,000.

1927 – Annual ceiling reduced to 150,000, a number that remained constant until 1965.

THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS UNTIL THE 18^TH CENTURY

Torah (Five Books of Moses)

Old Testament

Exilic Commentaries (Talmud + others)

AD –Anno Domini

CE – Common Era

Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities

Roman Emperor Constantine  — 4^th century AD (306-336)

Expansion of Islam in the 7^th and 8^th centuries

Yiddish – Middle German + Hebrew + vocabulary from other languages

Prince Boleslaw the Pious of Poland

Statute of Kalisz (1264)

Podolia

Cossacks – peoples living in Ukraine, excellent horsemanship

Chmielnicki

Sabbatai Zevi – false messiah

Jacob Frank

The Baal Shem Tov – Master of the Good Name

Kabbalah/ Zohar

Here is a link discussing millions of illegal immigrants in USA.

For complete article, see here: nyt 1924

Here is an Op-Ed about the border wall between the USA and Mexico.

Here are some interactive maps published in the New York Times about the shifts in ethnic neighborhoods in recent years.

Follow the link, and comment here if you would like.

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