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Praying At The Wailing Wall "America"
America: Only several thousand Jews lived in the US upon its establishment on July 4, 1776, most of them Marrano and people who were exiled or escaped from Spain in favor of colonies in North America. The great wave of immigration began in 1882. Czarist Russia, which was home to about half of the world's Jews, went through a failed industrial revolution and within 42 years, some two million Jews immigrated to the US from Ukraine, western Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Romania. They made up 25% of the Jewish population in those countries, about 15% of the world's Jews, and 10 times the number of Jews who immigrated to the Land of Israel during that period. Whilst many workplaces were blocked to the Jews due to an anti-Semitic campaign’s and most of them lived in crowded and filthy slums in New York – Brooklyn and the Lower East Side. Jewish immigrants, however, emerged from poverty and made faster progress than any other group of immigrants. Making American Jews today one of the wealthiest ethnic groups in the universe. This piece is a testimony to this journey.
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