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Episode 1: No Sanction to Bigotry

Episode 1: No Sanction to Bigotry

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Before the American Revolution, Sephardic Jews like Aaron Lopez found economic opportunity and religious freedom in Newport, Rhode Island, but not full citizenship, nor the right to vote. What promise did an independent United States hold for American Jews and their hope that President George Washington would preside over a new nation that “to bigotry gives no sanction?”

Featuring: Yair Rosenberg

Narrated by Mark Oppenheimer

Written by John Turner and Lincoln Mullen

This series is made possible with support from the Henry Luce Foundation and the David Bruce Smith Foundation.

Antisemitism, U.S.A. is a production of R2 Studios at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

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