Day Five: August 8

The history of Jewish Culture and Socialism:
A brief and condensed history:
-German Jews brought their experience and knowledge of socialism to New York
- Russian Jews brought their more radical experience of socialism and anarchy from the revolution over.

Over many years a blend of intellectualism and radicalism created a socialism that tried to help the plight of the workers. Examples:
coops
general labor strikes
free schools
news papers like the Forward


We took a tour of the Lower East Side to see the site of the Triangle Shirtwaste Factory Fire and the Cooper Union.

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/