The Importance Of Immigration To The People Of Poland During The 19th Century

Consistent with Rossel, Germany has had a past of anti-Semitism, starting in 1542 when the great German Protestant leader Martin Luther wrote a booklet called Against the Jews and Their Lies. Even earlier the Catholic Churches had taught that the Jewish people killed Crist and should therefore be hated (10). Early teachings of anti-Semitism lead to a hating of the Jewish community, but with the German’s calling themselves the “Aryan Race” and the Jewish people calling themselves the “chosen one’s” there was bound to be competition on who was superior.

Racial antisemitism was born in the Nineteenth Century when laws were passed in many European countries posing the Jewish people as second-class citizens, not receiving the same rights as others in society. While they had reached a level of religious emancipation in some countries, Judaism had become recognized as an ethnicity as well, and this ethnic difference from the Aryans therefore made them “inferior.” Pogroms began across Eastern Europe in the late 1800’s which resulted in

Citizens from around the world have been migrating to the United States for centuries. During the 1880s all the way up to the 1920's, more than twenty-five million foreigners voyaged to America. After World War I ended on November 11, 1918, there had been a massive increase of immigrants. The result of numerous people migrating to the U.S. greatly impacted culture and society. The majority of immigrants were traveling from Eastern and Southern Europe. As immigration increased after World War I, some questions in need of answering are what were the significant reasons as to why European immigrants started coming to the U.S. during the 1920's through the 1930's after World War I? How were they able maintain their cultural identity? Immigrants decided to resettle in the United States in search of new beginnings, riches, and the

Anti-Semitism is the hatred and discrimination of those with a Jewish heritage. It is generally connected to the Holocaust, but the book by Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale shows the rise of anti-Semitism from a grassroots effect. Smith uses newspapers, court orders, and written accounts to write the history and growth of anti-Semitism in a small German town. The book focuses on how anti-Semitism was spread by fear mongering, the conflict between classes, and also the role of the government.

The beginning of Polish travel started in 1850; which was the first wave of immigrants to come to America. People wanted refuge from the Poland-Russian War. “Under Russian and Prussian rule, European Poles could not teach Polish in the schools, practice their religion, or rally for Polish independence”

The desire to recover Poland’s freedom was greatly carried on by Poles who emigrated from Europe. In 1912 alone, approximately 175,000 Polish immigrants entered the United States, and many of them settled in Chicago. Chicago was the perfect home for immigrants in the

In the 1850 most immigrants were farmers or laborers, most immigrants to the United States derived frequently from middle, or cottager, class. Many of them worked at the cigar-making industry in New York. Their conditions and wages were poor, it would take a Czech about ten years of labor to attain the economic status of the average American laborer. Women were also employed in these factories. The Czechs created the building and loan association, an institution which became of the their most significant contribution to U.S. economic life. Czechs immigrants in the urban setting worked as small businessmen and as skilled and unskilled laborers. During the late 1870’s new immigrants the overwhelming majority were poorly educated, found

Over the course of history immigrants began to settle and occupy New York City and many other growing towns like Chicago and Philadelphia. These immigrants faced many harsh treatments from the native born Americans. When the immigrants came to America they had nowhere to go. They ended up moving into neighborhoods that were highly neglected and buildings that were very run down and poverty stricken. The buildings they moved into were known as tenements. They are for multiple families and they are set up like apartments. The tenements were very well known for their small size and they contained no more than two rooms. One room was the kitchen and the other was a bedroom. This was an issue for families containing many members because the lack

For thousands of years, the Jewish People have endured negative stereotypes such as the "insects of humanity." As Sander Gilman pointed out, the Nazi Party labeled Jews as "insects like lice and cockroaches, that generate general disgust among all humanity" (Gilman 80).1 These derogative stereotypes, although championed by the Nazis, have their origins many centuries earlier and have appeared throughout Western culture for thousands of years. This fierce anti-Semitism specifically surfaced in Europe’s large cities in the early twentieth century, partially in conjunction with the growing tide of nationalism, patriotism, and xenophobia that sparked the First World

“Jews were initially the subject of primarily religious intolerance: they were despised for the arrogance of their monotheism, vilified as Christ’s murderers, and identified with the devil. Later during the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth century, with the rise of capitalism, they would experience a social form of prejudice… a mixture of resentment and jealousy over the seeming ability of Jews to make good on the scarce opportunities offered them by capitalism and liberal society. It was indeed only in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century… that Jews would experience the new political expression of Judeophobia commonly known as anti-Semitism.”

First of all, the economy in Poland wasn’t so perfect, meaning that there weren’t as many jobs for the amount of people who needed them. Based on movies and books about America, Poles believed that they could have an easier time finding a job in the new country, rather than in Poland. During the year of 1939, Poland was invaded by the Germans. Many people living in Poland came to America at that time, because they were looking for a place where they can keep their language, and culture and continue to practice their chosen religion. These people liked how America was at peace, which drew them more to that country.

Many of the factors that led to the flood of immigrants into the country during the nineteenth century were due to technological innovations. The steamboat especially shorted travel time and made it cheaper for the common folk to travel between their home country and America. Another reason was the rapid mechanization of agriculture which forced many people from the traditional farming based jobs and into the cities around the world for work. The book describes that this as an extension to the trends before that, where European laborers would migrate around the continent during the harvest seasons looking for working as well as later on to enter the rising industries. The fact that steam travel had decreased travel time by so much simply made

What caused the arousal of anti-Semitism in the late nineteenth century was not due to a close examination of the Jewish customs or a vast plan to eliminate Jews from Germany. In fact the answer is so much simpler and it is an issue that the world still finds at the route of it’s problems today. A word as simple as jealousy is the source of a hatred so strong that it ended up killing millions. Anti-Semitism is a product of the strongest type of jealousy, a jealousy that was rooted deep in Germany’s past only to resurface at times of injustice, as the German’s saw it.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, the society shifted the focus on the abandonment of socialism and the evils of capitalism. The quest to victimize the working class and rebut the idea of Social Darwinism. This new era focuses on the attempt to pursue the American Dream. Although, the wage slavery and the oppression of capitalism, shatter’s every aspect of their lives. Ona Lukosazaite and Jurgis Rudkus, were two Lithuanian immigrants who recently arrived in Chicago, to marry. This courageous new beginning symbolizes the explore of immigrants in America. The idea that America provides a new beginning for those that work hard and yield the hope to succeed. While, it rebuts the idea of America and the hope for a new life. This period of

Immigration in the first years of the twentieth century had a profound impact on American society, culture and the political landscape. The effect of this immigration helped to determine the United States’ global persona for the entire century. As larger groups of Western Europeans immigrated to the United States, in the first twenty years, they brought with them, their culture, traditions, and European (old world) mode of thought. These modes of thought were based on their social, political and religious views. The religious views were paramount, moreover with the Roman Catholics. Their social and political basis was more flexible and they were able to adapt it to the American way of life in somewhat of a manner. When they became vastly intertwined within the culture of the factory towns and metropolitan cities their influence can be seen and felt. These immigrants became the predominant workforce in the factory and mill towns that became the industrial revolution in America. Their influence on politics is most especially keen, as most of Europe is more of a social and left leaning society, their impact on the United States, which at the time was more center right, was to push the country decidedly left of center. As we will analyze, the change to the United States was not dramatic nor revolutionary, it took place over the entire century and is still continuing to change with modern immigration trends. This has become clearly visible during the middle and later