A story of Jewish immigration 100 years ago that
is still relevant to immigrant
experiences today – the hopes, dreams and threats of deportation as persecuted
people seek a better life in America.
West of Hester Street Faced with poverty and death, millions of Eastern European Jews poured into America in the early 1900s. They crowded into ghettos along the Eastern seaboard. Jewish leaders grew concerned that the U.S. government would soon close its doors to these new immigrants.
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