{"id":1272,"date":"2017-02-16T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/isidor-a-popper-an-early-20th-century-immigrant\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T18:44:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T18:44:03","slug":"isidor-a-popper-an-early-20th-century-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/isidor-a-popper-an-early-20th-century-immigrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Isidor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1272 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/isidor-a-popper-an-early-20th-century-immigrant\/attachment\/1273\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tumblr_olh7veqwcu1r3qmd1o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Isidor \u00a0A. Popper, an early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century<br \/>\nimmigrant to New York City and an entrepreneur, signed the above affidavit in<br \/>\n1938, sponsoring the immigration of Vienese refugees Alice and Gisele Popper<br \/>\n(even though they were not actually her relatives). Popper signed 32 such<br \/>\ndocuments, which were most successful when promoted by a family member. <a href=\"http:\/\/search.cjh.org:1701\/beta:CJH_SCOPE:cjh_digitool815343\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>,\u00a0you can<br \/>\nsee the desperate\u00a0letters that Alice wrote to Isidor, explaining her situation and asking for assistance. <\/p>\n<p>Image: Courtesy of Leo Baeck Institute <\/p>\n<p>The Center for Jewish History insists upon the most genuine of American and Jewish values: religious freedom, human equality, and inviolable human rights. Doing otherwise would be a rejection of our collective past, and our most profound commitments as both Americans and  Jews.\u00a0Read the rest\u00a0of our \u201cStatement on Intolerance\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/16thstreet.tumblr.com\/post\/134994147572\/the-center-for-jewish-history-releases-a-statement\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isidor \u00a0A. Popper, an early 20th century immigrant to New York City and an entrepreneur, signed the above affidavit in 1938, sponsoring the immigration of Vienese refugees Alice and Gisele Popper (even though they were not actually her relatives). Popper signed 32 such documents, which were most successful when promoted by a family member. Here,\u00a0you can see the desperate\u00a0letters that Alice wrote to Isidor,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,42,159,85,173],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-jewish-history","tag-leo-baeck-institute","tag-new-york-city","tag-refugees","tag-seeking-asylum","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}