Thursday, September 21, 2023
At the turn of the last century, a movement to stop immigration from southern and eastern Europe began to take shape. Daniel Okrent, a prize-winning author of six books, talks about how this movement united with the simultaneous development of the false science of eugenics. This convergence resulted in 1924 laws that effectively stopped immigration from several European countries for the next four decades.
This lecture is a part of the Kraft-Hiatt Program for Jewish-Christian Understanding.