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"My father seriously began to make plans to go to America....
He decided to leave the family at home until he could establish
himself. He was determined to go where Jews could worship God
as they pleased, where they could breathe freedom, and where
their lives were not threatened every minute of the day..."
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"From 1880 through the 1920s, economic dislocations, rising
birthrates, and anti-Semitism brought three million Jews from
Russia, Romania, Hungary, and Galicia, most of whom practiced
Orthodox Judaism."
Elizabeth Jameson,
University of Calgary
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