Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The American Jewish Committee
As a natural consequence, the condition of the Jew in foreign lands has been characterized by unrest, terror, and untold suffering, and he has been compelled to look to his American brethren for aid, comfort and consolation. He has been forced to take up anew the staff of the wanderer, and to flee for refuge to the hospitable shores of America, there to seek that opportunity of living his own life, which has been denied to him in the land of his birth. The Jewish population of the United States has thus been increased from two hundred thousand, or thereabouts, in 1880, to upwards of one and a half million at the =present time, two-thirds of which number represent the Jews dwelling in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston. This great influex of Jewish pcpu lation, to an overwhelming extent, represents groups which, prior to 1880, were practically unknown in America. The infinitesimal per centage of those who belonged to these groups, who had previously come to this country, were, after short periods of storm and stress, absorbed and assimilated by the then existing groups. This process, however, became impossible, or at least became indefinitely deferred, when the new migration set in, representing as it did an alien civilization, and customs and traditions to which the earlier Jewish immigrant was almost a stranger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
