Russian Jews flee pogroms for America

1904

Following waves of anti-Jewish pogroms across Russia's Pale of Settlement, Jewish emigration to America hit record numbers. By 1914 more than two million Russian Jews would have arrived at Ellis Island, carrying bundles and speaking Yiddish. They remade New York's Lower East Side, the American garment industry, and before long American entertainment, science, and the rhythms of the nation's great cities.