This Week In History: Levi Strauss: The Jewish Immigrant Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World

Our American Stories

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Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On this episode of Our American Stories, as part of our "This Week in History" series, we tell the story of an immigrant whose name you probably know—but whose story you likely don't. Levi Strauss left Germany in 1847 in pursuit of the American Dream—and stitched that dream into a pair of blue jeans that changed American culture and fashion forever. Lynn Downey, the official historian of Levi Strauss & Co., tells his remarkable story.

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