A History of Jewish American Achievement

A History of Jewish American Achievement

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

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Streaming License includes all individual programs listed below, as well as downloadable supplemental files.	JAA	$220.00/yr
Individual Programs	SKU	Term	Price
The Jewish Settlers Come to America 1654 - The First Jewish Pioneers Arrive in the New World 1714 - Luis Moses Gomez Starts Thriving Fur Trade 1778 - Jewish Americans Aid the American Revolution 1819 - Rebecca Gratz Founds the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society 1843 - B'nai B'rith is Founded 1844 - David Levy Yulee is the First Jewish American U.S. Senator	JAA-001	$27.50/yr
Jewish Americans Spread Out Across the Country 1860 - Uriah P. Levy Becomes First Jewish American Commodore in U.S. Navy 1873 - Levi Strauss Patents Blue Jeans 1876 - From Immigrants to Settlers: Jewish Americans on the Western Frontier 1886 - Samuel Gompers is Elected First President of the American Federation of Labor 1903 - Oscar Straus is the First Jewish American Appointed to a Presidential Cabinet	JAA-002	$27.50/yr
Jewish Americans Succeed in All Walks of American Life 1903 - Emma Lazarus Poem is Inscribed on the Statue of Liberty 1907 - Albert A. Michelson is the First American to Win Nobel Prize in Physics 1912 - Harry Houdini Performs His Greatest Escape 1916 - Louis Brandeis is the First Jewish American Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court 1919 - Jewish Americans Found Hollywood	JAA-003	$27.50/yr
A Golden Age for Jewish Americans 1925 - Florence Prag Kahn Becomes the First Jewish American Woman in Congress 1925 - Edna Ferber, First Jewish American to Win Pulitzer Prize 1927 - Jolson and Gershwin Bring Jazz onto the American Stage 1935 - The Marx Brothers Release A Night at the Opera 1938 - Painter Max Weber Founds Linear Expressionism	JAA-004	$27.50/yr
Jewish Americans and World War II 1939 - Albert Einstein Pens Letter to Support Atomic Bomb Research 1939 - Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany are Turned Away from American Shores 1941 - 1945 - Jewish Americans Fight with Valor in WWII 1942 - Physicist Robert Oppenheimer Leads Team to Develop First Atom Bomb 1945 - Bess Myerson is Crowned Miss America	JAA-005	$27.50/yr
The Flowering of Jewish Americans 1946 - Aaron Copland Debuts His Third Symphony 1947 - David Sarnoff: The Father of American TV 1948 - Brandeis University is Founded 1948 - Arthur Miller Pens Death of a Salesman 1948 - 2010 - Jewish American Authors Expand Literary Genres 1953 - Jonas Salk Develops Polio Vaccine 1954 - Admiral Hyman Rickover Builds America's Nuclear Navy	JAA-006	$27.50/yr
Jewish Americans Enter Mainstream American Culture 1963 - Betty Friedan Leads the Women's Movement 1965 - Bob Dylan Shocks the Newport Folk Festival 1965 - Hank Greenberg, Sandy Koufax, Mark Spitz 1968 - Mike Wallace Establishes Investigative TV Journalism 1970 - Samuelson and Friedman, Nobel Prize Winning Economists	JAA-007	$27.50/yr
The New Jewish American Identity 1970 - Judy Blume Changes Children's Literature 1977 - Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg 1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg is Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court 1996 - Sergey Brin Starts Google 2003 - Mark Zuckerberg Launches Facebook 2009 - Jewish American Doll Debuted by American Girl, Inc.	JAA-008	$27.50/yr