From Haven to Home Reflection

Part 1: From haven to Home
The purpose of the From Haven to Home exhibit was to teach us about Jewish culture or Jewry in America. Some of the things that I learned during the exhibit are that anti-semitism is when you are racist against Jewish people. I also learned that Albert Einstein was Jewish. I learned about the letter that George Washington sent to a synagogue in Rode Island. In that letter George Washington said that "the government shall give Bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. He wrote this because at the time, it was illegal for anyone of Jewish decent to run for public office. When the Jewish people landed in New Amsterdam they were not allowed in by the local government because they thought that they would be a financial burden and then they would have to let in the Lutherans and the Papists. I also learned that because synagogues were few and far between many families would hold services in their own homes.