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  • The Olmstead Legacy
    Arthur L. Finkle
    The authorized agencies to recoup Nazi confiscation and ’Fire sale' transactions received fewer than 20 percent of the value of Jewish assets stolen by Nazis. Of the $220 billion confiscated by the Nazi’s, $115-175 billion (at 2005 prices) remains unreturned. Even the highly publicized resurgence of restitution in the 1990s (when grandchildren sought restitution) resulted in th...
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  • Jewish Exceptionalism?
    Arthur L. Finkle
    In Commentary in April 2007, Charles Murray, the coauthor of The Bell Curve (1994), again claimed that 'Jews are smarter' than everyone else (Murray, 2007). In The Bell Curve, he and his late (and Jewish) coauthor, Richard Herrnstein, presented the argument 'Ashkenazic Jews of European origins,' test higher than any other ethnic group (Murray and Herrnstein, 1994). Jews in Amer...
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  • Civic Virtue
    Arthur L. Finkle / Arthur LFinkle
    Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress-a period like our own. Americans today have little trust in government, household incomes lag behind our usual middle-class expectations. The fires of fear in America have long found oxygen when broad, seemingly threatening change is afoot. ...
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  • Rebuilding and Repairing America’s Neglected Infrastructure
    Arthur L. Finkle / Arthur LFinkle
    The American Society of Civil Engineers 2016 economic study (Failure to Act: Closing the Infrastructure Investment Gap for America’s Economic Future) predicted that America’s infrastructure investment gap was $3.9 trillion in losses to the U.S. GDP by 2025. Further, it found a gap of $7 trillion in lost business sales by 2025. Moreover, it predicted that, due to this infrastruc...
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  • Toxic ’Racial Purity’
    Arthur L. Finkle / Arthur LFinkle
    The long history of anti-Semitism began religious anti-Semitism between Judaism and The Early Church after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. Thus, religious discrimination varied through the Medieval Era, the Spanish Era through the nineteenth century. Thereupon, Racial anti-Semitism began with the introduction of pseudo-science, Eugenics, enabling the Nazi Regime ...
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  • U.S. Immigration, 1833-1965
    Arthur L. Finkle / Arthur LFinkle
    American efforts to restrict immigration from 1850’s to the xenophobic US Immigration Act of 1923, which essentially stopped Immigration the US until post World War II. The reader sees the rise of xenophobic groups: Ku Klux Klan, Eugenics movement, Numerous Xenophobic groups. Subject matter includes: Nativism; The First Jewish Immigrants to the United States; German-Jewish Immi...
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  • Trenton’s Jews
    Arthur L. Finkle / Arthur LFinkle
    An account of a small industrial city, Trenton, that became a haven for immigrating Jews (German Jews in the 1850’s; and the Russian, Polish, Hungarian and Romanian Jews in 1881-1914). The story delves into the immigrant periods of a displaced people adapting to a completely new environment. It follow its people, its institutions, its work and its eventual economic success. Lat...
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  • Jewish Farming Communities in NJ
    Arthur L. Finkle / Arthur LFinkle
    Jewish farming in New Jersey, part of the experiment to return Jews to the land, represents more than 100-organized experiments during the Great Migration (1881-1914). Most of its successes are found in New Jersey, then known as the Garden State. Led by the international Jewish community, Russian Jews poured out of Russia. The Jewish Colonization Association, established by Ger...
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    28,31 €