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Jewish Immigration to America: Three Waves
Today, America’s Jewish community is largely Ashkenazic, meaning it is made up of Jews who trace their ancestry to Germany and Eastern Europe. However, the first Jews to arrive in what would become the...
View ArticleJewish Emigration in the 19th Century
One of the fundamental changes in Jewish life in the period under review [the 19th century] was the enormous movement, mainly from Eastern to Western Europe and overseas, and above all to the United...
View ArticleThe First New York Jews
Reprinted with permission from Jewishgates.org. When Portugal re-conquered Brazil in 1654, all Jews were expelled. Most fled to Holland. Some settled in the Indies. Twenty-three Jews, however,...
View ArticleJewish Immigration from Eastern Europe
In 1880, in a Jewish population of approximately 250,000, only one out of six American Jews was of’ East European extraction; 40 years later, in a community which had reached four million, five out of...
View ArticleGerman Jewish Immigrants
Between 1815 and the eve of the Civil War, two million German-speaking Europeans migrated to the United States. By 1875, the number would grow again by half. From the Atlantic seaboard cities to the...
View ArticleSephardic Jewish Immigrants: The Second Wave
Though the first wave of Jewish immigrants to America were Sephardic–tracing their roots to Spain and Portugal–subsequent waves were dominated by Ashkenazim from Germany and Eastern Europe. As the...
View ArticleCharleston Jews
Reprinted with permission from Sephardim in the Americas: Studies in Culture and History (The University of Alabama Press). A friendly rivalry has existed between Savannah and Charleston as to which...
View ArticleJewish New York: The Early Years
Reprinted with permission from Sephardim in the Americas: Studies in Culture and History (The University of Alabama Press). As is well known, the first Jewish settlement in what became the United...
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Lillian Wald
Lillian Wald is celebrated for her tireless efforts in improving the Lower-East Side immigrant communities. At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of Eastern-European Jews populated crowded,...
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