Children of the American Jewish Ghetto: Stories of Struggle and Achievement from 1881 Through World War I

by Chaim M. Rosenberg

Between 1881 and 1914, more than two million Jews came to America. Most were poor, from the stultifying shtetls of the Pale of Settlements of the Russian Empire, steeped in Jewish tradition and religion, and Yiddish-speaking. In New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago they formed overcrowded Jewish ghettoes, living in cramped walk-up apartments and finding low-pay work in the clothing sweatshops or tobacco and cigarette factories.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476695474
• ISBN13: 9781476695471
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 167 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"