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A History of Jewish Life from Eastern Europe to America (Hardcover, 1st Jason Aronson Inc. ed)
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A History of Jewish Life from Eastern Europe to America (Hardcover, 1st Jason Aronson Inc. ed)
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Tens of thousands of Jews were injured or killed in the pogroms of
the early 1880s and those of the early 1900s. Ninety-five percent
of the Jewish population was restricted to a life of poverty and
starvation in the ghetto and barred from schools and universities.
Ultimately, four million Jews left Eastern Europe between 1880 and
1924, three million of whom settled in America. Monumental though
this mass migration was, it is even more surprising to learn that
twice as many Jews decided not to leave Eastern Europe, despite the
horrid conditions they endured. This puzzling statistic lends even
sharper emphasis to the reasons surrounding the biggest movement of
people in world history. Milton Meltzer has gathered eyewitness
accounts, diaries, letters, documents, songs, maps, poems, and
memoirs, weaving them into an historical narrative that details the
Jews' motivation to abandon their old world and venture into a new
one. It is a story that will at once educate and inspire the
reader, delight and disappoint, while restoring a world practically
unfathomable to today's American Jews, most of whom can find their
roots in that rich and wondrous past.
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