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Date: 2015-06-13 05:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deepseasiren.livejournal.com
Many people aren't very history-saavy as we both are so the creators of the show may have just purposely done that and thought no one would notice. There were a lot of Eastern European Jews there at that time too, and they were the ones who were quite instrumental in getting that area 'cleaned up' so to speak.

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Date: 2015-06-13 09:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyd.livejournal.com
Yes, and there was huge anti-semitism, particularly right then and there.

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Date: 2015-06-13 11:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deepseasiren.livejournal.com
They originally thought Jack the Ripper was a 'Jew' or even a 'wild Indian' since I believe there was a Wild West show there entertaining from the states. I don't remember if it was Wild Bill Hickok or not.

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Date: 2015-06-14 03:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyd.livejournal.com
Which is why it surprises me they haven't tackled the resulting distrust and anti-Semitism in the wake of that when they have been willing to talk about other period social issues.

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