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A 10 page paper which examines Jewish
Immigration from 1900 to the beginning of WWII. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
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Jewish individuals began around WWII, when, in fact, Jewish Immigration began to see a powerful rise from the period of 1900 to the beginning of WWII. In the following paper
we examine the general reality of the Jewish Immigration to the United States during this particular time period. Jewish Immigration: Generalization "As the century opened, the United States,
with about one million Jews, was the third largest Jewish population center in the world, following Russia and Austria-Hungary. About half of the countrys Jews lived in New York City
alone, making it the worlds most populous Jewish community by far, more than twice as large as its nearest rival, Warsaw, Poland" (Sarna; Golden, 2000). It is interesting and informative
to note, however, that "By contrast, just half a century earlier, the United States had been home to barely 50,000 Jews and New Yorks Jewish population had stood at about
16,000" (Sarna; Golden, 2000). This clearly speaks of turmoil and discord in other parts of the world where Jews had once lived. Sarna and Golden (2000) note that "Immigration
provided the principal fuel behind this extraordinary American Jewish population boom. In 1900, more than 40 percent of Americas Jews were newcomers, with ten years or less in the country,
and the largest immigration wave still lay ahead." This new immigration was to take place from 1900 to 1924 wherein "another 1.75 million Jews would immigrate to Americas shores, the
bulk from Eastern Europe. Where before 1900, American Jews never amounted even to 1 percent of Americas total population, by 1930 Jews formed about 31/2 percent" (Sarna; Golden, 2000). In
fact, at that particular time in history there were more Jews in American than "Episcopalians or Presbyterians" (Sarna; Golden, 2000). With a great concentration of Jews residing in the
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