1. Earlier immigration
2. The "new immigrants" of the 1890-1910 period... largest groups: Italians, Russian and Polish Jews
a. What propelled the immigration?
b. Reception in the United States
NY Times article
c. Upward mobility for Jews compared with Italians
1). Culture and education
2). Occupational experience in the country of origin
3). Combining the two... rapid upward mobility by Jews compared with Italians and other immigrant groups
d. Response: Discriminination in education: Karabel, The Chosen
e. Response: Discrimination in occupations: business vs. professions
3. Anti-semitism by the 1940s (World War II period). Gallup poll: Which groups are most dangerous to the United States? Jews listed third, after the Japanese and the Germans.
1. Weber, not Marx... ideal and material interests, status groups
2. Amy Chua: World on Fire... the dangers of democratization in countries that are characterized by ethnic minorities that have a disproportionate share of the business/wealth
a. Her own family: ethnic Chinese in the Philippines (quotes, chapter 1, "Globalization and Ethnic Hatred")
b.Part III. Ethno-nationalism and the west (p. 187)
1)Jews in Germany: p. 202-204
2)Free market democracy and its dangers to societies with a real or perceived market-dominant minority: p. 206
One of the most controversial documents was Nostra Aetate , which stated that the Jews (as a whole; the leaders were to an extent complicit) of the time of Christ, taken indiscriminately, and all Jews today are no more responsible for the death of Christ than Christians. From Nostra Aetate :
"True, the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ; still, what happened in His passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today. Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures. All should see to it, then, that in catechetical work or in the preaching of the word of God they do not teach anything that does not conform to the truth of the Gospel and the spirit of Christ. Furthermore, in her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone. [ 22 ] "
Why was there a perception that this statement was needed?
What about the current controversy regarding the possible beatification of Pope Pius XII?
IV. CSK on antisemitism in the United States: top of p. 166. Is this strong enough?