Реферат: Immigrant Communities A Look At 4

communities were characterized by a strong sense of togetherness

and family.

The last group that will be examined are the Jewish

immigrants from various countries. Like the Irish who were

forced out of their country by the famine and the British

government, the Jews were also exiled from their homelands, but

their cause for fleeing was religious persecution. Jewish

immigrants came from many different backgrounds, but their

religion basically gave them a culture all their own. They spoke

their own language, Yiddish or Hebrew, and followed their own set

of traditions and values. In many cases of immigrants, they were

being oppressed by the government under which they lived, however

they were not allowed to leave. So many had to escape their

countries in order to come to America.

Similar to the Italians, Jewish men usually immigrated first

and then found a way to help their families escape to the freedom

of America. They became well known in the clothing industry, and

a great number of Jewish immigrants worked in tailoring and as

merchants and factory hands. Since in Jewish families, it is a

goal for the man to study their religion as a Rabbi and be

supported by his family, women were used to working outside the

home and adjusted well to factory and tailoring work. Jews were

also highly literate and educated, and most strived to better

themselves and better their family standing.

Jewish immigrants lived in urban settings, and a large

Jewish community was established in New York. These families

lived in the tenement houses and often took boarders into their

small apartments in order to bring in more income. These

boarders were usually single Jewish men who were newly immigrated