A Brief History of Jewish Immigration to AmericaFounders Corner
The Achilles’ heel of the Orthodox rabbinate in America in the first six decades of intensive Jewish immigration to America waskashrutsupervision. The chaos that surroundedkashrutmatters is almost indescribable. The great Rabbi Yakov Yosef, who was elected as the first and the only Chief Rabbi of...
“In all of its parts, the most basic purpose of the 1924 Immigration Act was to preserve the ideal of U.S. homogeneity,” according to aState Department history page. “America must remain American,” President Calvin Coolidge said in signing the law. It was a slap in the face of the...
Yet their numbers in the 18th century were minuscule, and during the Napoleonic Wars their immigration stopped altogether. It did not revive until the 1820s. In common with most Central Europeans, Jews suffered from postwar desolation and the trauma of adjustment to a pre-industrial ...
Antin’s memoir The Promised Land (1912) meant its title literally, painting a portrait of America as a land of plenty. These Jewish writers were not just reflecting the circumstances of immigration; they were often changed by it, too. Mike Gold—originally Yitzhak Granik but borrowing his ...
Poverty and rising anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe, as well as growing hostility in Western Europe, fueled large waves of Jewish immigration to America at the turn of the last century (with smaller immigrations to Canada, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa). The ...
Henrietta Szold was an American Jewish leader, who was a founder of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. Szold was of a German-speaking Hungarian immigrant family; her father was a rabbi. After graduating from public high school in 187
For Adrien Brody, The Brutalist is a story deeply tied to his heritage, immigration, and resilience. He spoke to The AJN about the award-winning film. More Headlines A powerful performanceAn epic postwar architectural drama By Lior Zaltzman Short Film FundSpotlight on Australian Jewish life po...
When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics that Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed. New York, Vintage Books, 2005. xiv, 263 pp., illus. $25 (hardcover), $13.95 (paper). Howard Markel has a distinguished record of writing about the intersection between immigration and public...
The average number of Jewish immigrants to the United States, by far the greater part of whom were from Russia, was in the nineties more than double the number in the preceding decade. For the single years the immigration was as follows: Year.From Russia.From Other Countries. 1891 42,145...