Description
Rabbi Gary Zola talked about his book, "American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader," and the history of Jewish immigration to Cincinnati, OH amidst the city's evolution in the 19th century.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- CLIP #1: Why was Cincinnati one of the two or three "most important" Jewish communities in the 19th century United States?
- CLIP #1: Based on the clip, who made up the 'first wave' of Jewish immigrants to Cincinnati in the 1810s and 1820s?
- CLIP #1: According to Rabbi Gary Zola, from where did the 'explosion' of Jewish migration come in the 1820s and beyond? Why?
- CLIP #1: Who were Jewish "peddlers," and why did many of them settle in Cincinnati?
- CLIP #1: Who was the "first Jew in Cincinnati?" Summarize the story Zola shares, and the "emblem" that developed.
- CLIP #2: How and why did Cincinnati change during the "Antebellum Period?"
- CLIP #2: According to Rabbi Gary Zola, how did Cincinnati's Jewish community 'envision itself?' Why?
- CLIP #2: What "firsts" took place in Cincinnati? Why?
Additional Resources
- Video Clip: New York City Tenement Museum
- Bell Ringer: Maysville Road: Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson and The American Plan
- Bell Ringer: German Jewish Immigration at the Onset of World War Two
- Lesson Plan: American Antisemitism in the Early 1900s
- Lesson Plan: Food and American National Identity
- Lesson Plan: Irish Catholics and Tammany Hall
Participants
Vocabulary
- Abraham Lincoln
- American Civil War (1861-65)
- Antebellum
- Century
- Commodious
- Congregation
- Hamlet
- Jewish
- Mercantilism
- Merchandising
- Monopoly
- Nazi
- Pogrom
- President
- Quaker
- Rabbinical Seminary
- Urban
- Wealth