Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe to the United States never again reached the levels that it did before 1920.Reprinted with permission from Commemorative Coins of the United States, A Complete Encylcopedia. This period of immigration came to an end with the passage of restrictive laws in 19. Most of those who arrived as part of this huge influx settled in cities where they clustered in districts close to downtowns, joined the working class, spoke Yiddish, and built strong networks of cultural, spiritual, voluntary, and social organizations. During this period there was an almost hundred-fold increase in America's Jewish population from some 3,000 in 1820 to as many as 300,000 in 1880.īetween 18, the migration shifted from Central Europe eastward, with over two-and- one-half million East European Jews propelled from their native lands by persecution and the lack of economic opportunity. Louis, New Orleans, San Francisco, and dozens of small towns across the United States. In addition to settling in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, groups of German-speaking Jews made their way to Cincinnati, Albany, Cleveland, Louisville, Minneapolis, St. In the first half of the nineteenth century, Jewish immigrants came mostly, though not exclusively, from Central Europe. Impelled by economic hardship, persecution, and the great social and political upheavals of the nineteenth century-industrialization, overpopulation, and urbanization-millions of Europe's Jews left their towns and villages and embarked on the arduous journey to the "Golden Land" of America. In the century spanning the years 1820 through 1924, an increasingly steady flow of Jews made their way to America, culminating in a massive surge of immigrants towards the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Albert Potter (1903-1937) Eastside New York, between 19.
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