The Jewish Americans

They Came to Stay/A World of Their Own (1x1)

: 09, 2008

The history of American Jews opens in 1654 with Jews arriving in New Amsterdam and continues through the early 20th century, when two million Jews came to the U.S. from Eastern Europe. Profiles include Judah P. Benjamin, a U.S. senator from Louisiana who served in the cabinet of the Confederate States of America; Anna Solomon, a 19th-century frontier woman in Arizona; and Spiegel Catalogue Co. founder Joseph Spiegel.