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List Price: $19.98Amazonaws.com's Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 (10%)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
Fabric Type: 0016351098498
Graphics Memory Size: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
Maximum Color Depth: SHANACHIE
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknown
Metal Type: SHANACHIE
Pearl Type: SHND984D
Processor Count: 1
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: SHANACHIE
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: April 01, 2001
Total S Video Out Ports: 60 minutes
SHANACHIE
2001
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: E1 Entertainment Release Date: 09/16/2003 Run time: 60 minutes
Amazon.com:
The story of Jews in America is told in "Present at the Creation 1654-1820," the first installment of a series that was shown on PBS, They Came for Good. Beginning with the arrival of 23 Brazilian Jews who fled persecution and arrived unwelcome at the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam in 1654, the story involves a number of heroic figures who fought for the rights of Jews to own property and practice their religion in the New World. One such colonist, Asher Levy, whose name is memorialized on several landmarks in New York City today, was a successful merchant who fought against being treated as a second-class citizen. During the American Revolution, Jewish financiers helped the Colonial cause, and in what would have been startling in a European country of that era, President George Washington wrote a letter expressing his wishes that America not practice bigotry directed at Jews. Actors in period costume appear as Jews of the time, telling stories derived from diaries and letters of how they managed to mesh in the new country while at the same time keeping to the strict Jewish customs. This is a very intelligently produced look at an aspect of early American history that is often overlooked. --Robert J. McNamara
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The second in a series of the History of the Jews coming to US. I bought this for one of the troops I support. He had requested it and I was glad to find it.
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They Came for Good, a history of the Jews from 1654 to 1820 in the United States, is an important documentary. I appreciate all of the research that was done to produce this DVD. I will definitely recommend it to others.
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This hour-long video is the first part of a two-disc series on the history of Jews in the United States. This part covers the period from 1654, when the first Jews arrived in North America, to 1820, the beginning of the massive wave of Jewish immigration from Germany and Central Europe. (The second part, "Taking Root," covers the period from 1820 to 1880.) Both parts are informative and interesting.
One complaint: Like another reviewer, I found it strange that the film refers to North ... Read More
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This documentary is filled with lots of good information and many interesting stories. I learned much from it. However, at one point, the narrator refers to North America at the time of European colonization as an "Empty Continent". Such a gaff calls into question the perspective of the entire program. In describing the oppression of the Jewish people and their struggle to overcome it, the program does an immense disservice to that struggle by implicitly denying the oppression of another people ... Read More
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A documentary of the Jewish history during and after the creation of the United states of America.
It speaks about the role of the Jews in the American life and history.
Whether during the constitution or civil war they were always there as American Jews. Soldiers ,philosphers ,lawyers and economists .
A worth watching tape.
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