Jews

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Jews

• in New York

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Contents

• Some facts

• 1820-1880

• 1880-1930

• What they did for a living at 1880-1930

• Some pictures

• 1930-1950

• 1950-today

• Why New York?

• their lives in New York

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Some facts

• 1900 29 New Yorkers were Jewish

• 1920 40 New Yorkers were Jewish

• today eyery fourth New Yorker is Jewish

• city with the largest Jewish population outside
  Isreal

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1820-1880

• 200.000 Jews imigrated every year

• 9 million peolpe imigrated in these 60
  years

• fourth biggest group of immigrants

• most Jews went to Manhattans Lower East Side

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1880-1930

• because anti-jewish programs in Russia many
  Russian Jews went to New York

• 1882 first Jewish theatre-play

• 1900 first Jew in congress

• 1917 800 synagogs in New York

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What they did for a living

• most jews worked in sweatshops

• 1895 6000 sweatshops in Manhattan

• 1885 234 of 241 belonged to Jews

• every new Jewish immigrant wanted to work in
  those shops

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1930-1950

• only 15 lived in Lower East Side

• they moved to the Bronx or Brooklyn

• immigration wave of refugees from Germany

• they felt the first time like real American
  jews after the second world war

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1950-today

• New Yorker Jews have on the average a higher
  income than other subpopulations

• most of the Jews get a better education

• 80 of the young Jews go to a college

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Why New York?

• multi-religious metropolis

• normal everyday life

• boundless freedom

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Their lives in New York

• they always helped themselves

• they did not need money from the staate

• they are the most loyal people

• New Yorkers do not need to be ashamed

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• presentation

by
Kim Wolts
sources http//www.tekla-szymanski.com www.wikipe
dia.com www.google.com
Thanks for attention