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Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903

The United States has been called a nation of immigrants because since 1776, it has taken in more than 55 million people from nearly every corner of the world.

Beginning in about 1890, a great wave of immigration began, mainly from southern and eastern Europe. The new immigrants included Italians, Slavs, Greeks, and eastern European Jews.

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For the Jews, religious oppression as well as economic reasons caused families to leave their homes and the worlds they had known to set out for America.

Many of the new immigrants entered the country at New York City. Many Jews decided to stay in Manhattan, on the Lower East Side — a neighborhood of approximately 350,000 Jews.

Between 1892 and 1954 they were received at a U.S.

government facility on Ellis Island in New York Harbor. Other eastern coastal cities, including Boston, were also first homes of immigrants. Some of the immigra