Jewish Involvement in Shaping American Immigration Policy, 1881- 1965 :: American America History

Judaic Involvement in Shaping American in-migration Policy, 1881- 1965 A Historical ReviewThis paper discusses Judaic involvement in shaping United States immigration policy. In addition to a periodical pertain in fostering the immigration of co- religionists as a essence of anti- Semitic movements, Jews need an interest in opposing the establishment of ethnically and heathenishly homogeneous societies in which they reside as minorities. Jews have been at the forefront in supporting movements aimed at altering the ethnic location quo in the United States in favor of immigration of non- European peoples. These activities have involved leadership in Congress, organizing and funding anti- restrictionist groups composed of Jews and non-Jews, and originating intellectual movements opposed to evolutionary and biological perspectives in the social sciences. Ethnic meshing is of transparent importance for sagacity critical aspects of American history, and not and for understand ing Black/ White ethnic conflict or the fate of aborigine Americans. Immigration policy is a paradigmatic example of conflict of interest between ethnic groups because immigration policy influences the future demographic written material of the nation. Ethnic groups unable to influence immigration policy in their have got interests will eventually be displaced or reduced in relative numbers by groups able to accomplish this goal. This paper discusses ethnic conflict between Jews and gentiles in the area of immigration policy. Immigration policy is, however, only one aspect of conflicts of interest between Jews and gentiles in America. The skirmishes between Jews and the gentile power structure beginning in the late nineteenth ampere-second always had strong overtones of anti- Semitism. These battles involved issues of Jewish upward mobility, quotas on Jewish representation in elite schools beginning in the nineteenth deoxycytidine monophosphate and peaking in the 1920s and 193 0s, the anti- Communist crusades in the post- World War II date, as well as the very powerful concern with the cultural influences of the major media extending from Henry Fords writings in the 1920s to the Hollywood inquisitions of the McCarthy era and into the contemporary era. That anti- Semitism was involved in these issues can be seen from the fact that historians of Judaism (e. g., Sachar 1992, p. 620ff) olfactory modality compelled to include accounts of these events as important to the history of Jews in America, by the anti- Semitic pronouncements of many of the gentile participants, and by the self- conscious understanding of Jewish participants and observers. The Jewish involvement in influencing immigration policy in the United States is particularly noteworthy as an aspect of ethnic conflict.