Amidst the poverty and the persecution that defined Jewish life in the Russian Pale of Settlement, there was one potential way out of the misery – immigration to America, di goldeneh medina, the Golden Land. Between 1881 and 1920, approximately three million Ashkenazi Jews immigrated to America’s shores from Eastern Europe, many of them fleeing pogroms and difficult economic conditions. Read More…
Chapter 8 – The Golden Land
