{"id":4429,"date":"2019-05-09T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T17:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2019-05-09T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T19:17:00","slug":"small-population-big-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/small-population-big-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Small population, Big Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hillel.org\/docs\/default-source\/historical\/american-jewish-year-book-(1920-1921).pdf?sfvrsn=2\">https:\/\/www.hillel.org\/docs\/default-source\/historical\/american-jewish-year-book-(1920-1921).pdf?sfvrsn=2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Jewish people, from their time in Egypt all the way through to the present, have never had a large population or foothold anywhere.\u00a0 The Jewish population in the US in the early 1900&#8217;s was just over 1.5 million, and most of these people, over 900,000, lived in New York State.\u00a0 Jews living in the city of New York could expect to find unemployment, poor treatment, and bad living conditions in tenements.\u00a0 If a tenement allowed Jews, there could be up to 20 families living in one five-story building.\u00a0 Jewish migration to the US increased leading up to the year 1900, and rose to double its previous normal rate in the year 1900.\u00a0 After they entered the 20th century, the number of jews even still doubled, to a rate of about 100,00 per year for\u00a0 a few years.\u00a0 This increase in immigration amounted to about 15% of all immigration from the time of 1899 to 1915.\u00a0 In total, about 1.5 million Jews immigrated to the United States before 1917.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.hillel.org\/docs\/default-source\/historical\/american-jewish-year-book-(1920-1921).pdf?sfvrsn=2 The Jewish people, from their time in Egypt all the way through to the present, have never had a large population or foothold anywhere.\u00a0 The Jewish population in the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/small-population-big-hate\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}