Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914

Some of the principal characteristics of the Jewish immigration to the United States have been presented in the preceding pages. The Jewish immigration has been shown to consist...

Religious intolerance had been the prime motive of Russia's policy of completely excluding the Jews from her borders. Through the partitions of Poland from 1772 to 1795, she bec...

The difficulty of the average American to understand the character of Russian life, some traits of which have been so vividly brought home to him in recent years, may be attribu...

The economic and social life of the Jews in Eastern Europe has moved along the familiar channels of commerce, industry and urban life characteristic of the Jews in all countries...

In a study of Jewish immigration to the United States the first problem is to determine the number of Jews who entered this country during the thirty years from 1881 to 1910, an...

The mass-movement of the Russian Jews to the United States began in the first year of Alexander III's reign. Though in this year the number of Russian Jews entering this country...

Our studies of the sex and age distribution of the Jewish immigrants have shown a family movement unsurpassed in degree. This in itself is sufficient indication that the Jews ar...

Vital aspects of an immigrant people are revealed in its sex and age distribution. Generally speaking, whether an immigration is composed of individuals or of families is shown...

The occupations of an immigrant people throw light upon their industrial equipment and their probable future occupations in this country. A study of the occupational distributio...

We turn now to a consideration of the part played by the Jewish immigration in the total immigration to this country for these thirty years.[90] A general rise is revealed in th...

The immigration of Roumanian Jews to the United States began as a small stream at the end of the sixties, and assumed significant dimensions in the eighties. Two important perio...

The immigration of Jews from Austria-Hungary began before the eighties of the last century, becoming at the beginning of the nineties a relatively strong and steady current. Unt...

The movement of the total Jewish immigration for the thirty years becomes clear in the light of the preceding pages. It is a rising movement, divided into two parts, the first c...

An intimate connection has thus been established between the present state of economic and social transition through which the countries of Eastern Europe are passing and the si...

The rate of illiteracy has been generally used as a rough standard for estimating the mental equipment of the immigrants. A consideration of the rate of illiteracy among the Jew...

In the thirty years between 1881 and 1910, 1,562,800 Jews entered the United States. An examination of Tables VI and VII reveals the fact that the great majority of the immigran...

The destination, or intended future residence, of immigrants is influenced by certain considerations, such as the place of residence of friends or relatives, the port arrived at...

Thirty years have elapsed since the Jews began to enter the United States in numbers sufficiently large to make their immigration conspicuous in the general movement to this cou...

The preceding analysis of the movement of the Jewish immigration to the United States and that of its Russian, Roumanian and Austro-Hungarian tributaries, from 1881 to 1910, has...

In this survey of Jewish immigration to the United States for the past thirty years, my purpose has been to present the main features of a movement of population that is one of...

I. _Russia._ 1. Treatment of the Jews after the partitions of Poland 56 2. Pale of Jewish Settlement: special Jewish laws 57 3. Attitude of Russian government toward the Jews 57...

1. Importance of sex and age distribution 127 2. Proportion of females in Jewish immigration 127 a. Tendency towards increase 127 3. Proportion of children in Jewish immigration...

I. _Russia._ 1. Medieval past 27 2. Agricultural character 28 3. Emancipation of serfs 29 4. Reminiscences of serfdom 29 5. Changes since the emancipation 30 6. Epoch of transit...

1. Emigration of Jews compared with immigration of Jews 133 2. Comparison of return movement of total and Jewish immigration 134 3. Comparison of return movement of Jews and oth...

1. Occupational distribution of Jewish immigrants 140 2. Jewish immigrants reporting occupations 141 a. Number and percentage of occupational groups 141 3. Skilled laborers 141...

1. Illiteracy of Jewish immigrants 146 2. Influence of sex upon illiteracy of Jewish immigrants 146 3. Illiteracy of Jewish male and female immigrants 147 4. Comparison of rate...

1. Construction of table: difficulties 87 2. Sources utilized: reports of Jewish societies 87 3. Rearrangement of numbers from 1886 to 1898 88 4. Determination of numbers by cou...

IMMIGRATION OF JEWS FROM ROUMANIA 1. Roumanian Jewish immigration a rising movement 105 a. Summary by decades 105 b. Annual variations 105 2. Participation of Jews in the immigr...

2. Participation of Jews in the immigration from Austria-Hungary 110 a. Summary by decades 110 b. Annual variations 111 3. Comparison of immigration of Jews from Austria and Hun...

1. Factors influencing destination 149 2. Proportion of Jewish immigrants destined for divisions 149 3. Proportion of Jewish immigrants destined for principal states 149 4. Comp...

IMMIGRATION OF JEWS FROM RUSSIA 1. Russian Jewish immigration a movement of steady growth 98 a. Summary by decades 98 b. Annual variations: effect of the Moscow expulsions 98 2....

PARTICIPATION OF JEWS IN TOTAL IMMIGRATION 1. Rise in proportion of Jewish to total 117 2. Summary by decades 117 3. Annual variations 117 4. Comparison of annual variations of...

IMMIGRATION OF JEWS FROM EASTERN EUROPE 1. Jewish immigration East-European 95 2. Summary by decades of Jewish immigration from Russia, Roumania and Austria-Hungary 95 3. Annual...

and non-Jews in the Pale 43 e. Economic activities of the Jews 44 2. Social characteristics 46 a. Urban distribution of the Jews 46 b. Comparison with the non-Jews 46