American Jews

American Jews: The exhibition, "Against All Odds: American Jews and the Rescue of Europe's Refugees, 1933-41" will be on view for a year at the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, located on Battery Place, according to Times Colonist. Strict quotas on U.S. visas made it difficult for refugees to get into the U.S. during the Nazi era. A debate has raged for decades about whether the U.S. Jewish community did enough to get Jews out, and whether the U.S. government policies that impeded their immigration were the result of anti-Semitism among U.S. officials, ignorance about the Jews' likely fate if they were not rescued, or, as some historians have argued, a matter of misguided wartime priorities and NEW YORK, N.Y. - An exhibition opens Tuesday at a museum in Lower Manhattan about efforts by American Jews to bring refugees to the U.S. from Europe during the Nazi era. The museum says the show is one of the first major exhibits about the subject, including images, rare documents, first-person accounts and interactive presentations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.