The history of Jewish Americans as well as their culture, people and accomplishments are presented in this second program of Jewish American Achievement. Chapter List 1.) 1860 - Uriah P. Levy Becomes First Jewish American Commodore in U. S. Navy - Uriah Philips Levy, joined the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812 and became the Jewish American John Paul Jones, rising to the rank of Commodore and fighting anti-Semitism and the navy's brutal punishment of flogging along the way. 2.) 1873 - Levi Strauss Patents Blue Jeans - Levi Strauss, founder of Levi Strauss & Company and the maker of blue jeans, got his start during the California Gold Rush, making pants for miners, and later made his company big through marketing and advertising. 3.) 1876 - From Immigrants to Settlers: Jewish Americans on the Western Frontier- Anna Solomon and Isidore Elkin, Askenazi Jews who came to America in the second wave of Jewish immigration to avoid persecution in Europe, were two of the many Jewish immigrants who settled in the American West, choosing Arizona. 4.) 1886 - Samuel Gompers is Elected First President of the American Federation of Labor - Samuel Gompers founded the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, later changed to the American Federation of Labor, also known as the AFL, to help America's working man, and in doing so helped to create America's middle class. 5.) 1903 - Oscar Straus is the First Jewish American Appointed to a Presidential Cabinet - Oscar Straus, the first Jewish American Cabinet Secretary, was appointed to Secretary of Commerce and Labor by Theodore Roosevelt and used the Interstate Commerce Commission to help break the hold of American business and industry on the American economy, setting the stage for Jewish Americans to become economic advisors to presidents, including Bernard Baruch, Henry Morgenthau Jr., and Larry Summers.
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