Federal Jewish Art Project

Title

Federal Jewish Art Project

Description

This was an image created by a Federally funded project to teach the Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe to speak English. This wave of Jewish Immigration took place from the 1880s to the 1920s. Many of the immigrants did not speak English, instead they spoke yiddish. This is part of the reason that many Jews were forced into the sweatshops and ghettos that are in "Yekl". This fits well with the theme of immigration the is in "Yekl"

Creator

The US Federal Government

Source

"Sharing StoriesInspiring Change." Eastern European Immigrants in the United States. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2015.

Publisher

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/eastern-european-immigrants-in-united-states

Date

Oct 28, 2015

Contributor

Tim Bontempi

Files

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/18882/archive/files/addd94c5360c7ec17fac643e569287f2.jpg

Collection

1890s

Citation

The US Federal Government , “Federal Jewish Art Project ,” Three Decades of NYC, accessed April 25, 2024, http://www.loyolanotredamelib.org/en203/items/show/45.