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From 1833-1852, where did many of the Jewish immigrants move from?
 * Baden, Bavaria and Wurttemberg
 * Was there any hesitation toward moving to the United States?
 * YES! Many orthodox Jews did not want to immigrate to the United States because they were afraid they would not be able to remain
 * Jewish culture and live in peace within American culture.
 * Where did many Jewish Immigrants settle in OTHER THAN Pittsburgh?
 * Many of the Eastern European Jews immigrated to big trade cities such as New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland.
 * -In the 1850’s a large number of German Jews immigrated to the US.
 * Many of them became successful in business.



Specifically in Pittsburgh:
 * 1882: Steady increase on Jewish population
 * Most of these immigrants have been from Eastern Europe, Russia, Romania and Hungry.
 * Jewish Population within Pittsburgh = between 5-7% of overall population

There are three main categories of Jewish Immigrants: <span style="color: #3ba56e; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-Conservative, Orthodox, and Reformist

<span style="color: #3ba56e; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Conservative- want there to be change in Jewish religious customs so that it becomes more modern. <span style="color: #3ba56e; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Orthodox- did not want anything to change and want customs to be as they were from the Torah. <span style="color: #3ba56e; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Reformist- accept the Jewish ethical commandment. They reject the practical commandment that is not suitable to the twentieth century.

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<span style="color: #625555; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Why Migrate to the away from home? <span style="color: #625555; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">During the late 1800s until early 1900s, much of the Jewish population around the world suffered from religious discrimination. Much of the population of the Pittsburgh Jewish immigration during this period was due to trouble in Russia and Eastern European nations lack of respect towards the Jewish people and culture.

<span style="color: #625555; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">For instance, the Kishinev Pogrom of 1903 caused trouble for much of the Russian Jewish population during the 1900. ALthough not the only example of the anti-semantic thoughts of many during the time, the Jewish population was persecuted and attacked following a Christian boy's murder in the town of Dubossary, Russia. Although a family member was the cause of the death, many newspapers publicized the cause of the murder as "The JEWS," causing thousands of Jewish homes to be vandalized and nearly fifty innocent Jewish citizens to be killed.

<span style="color: #625555; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Much of the Jewish population was effected by numerous pogroms during the Eastern European areas, many of which like that of Kishinev. Each attack drove many to a romanticized American lifestyle; many, though, would find happiness and better equality in cities such as that of Pittsburgh.



<span style="color: #0c226a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">media type="custom" key="8038258" <span style="color: #0c226a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The Jewish Movement In Pittsburgh

<span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Much of the Jewish population within Pittsburgh would fight for integration into the traditional city life of Pittsburgh. For instance, they would become critical to the Pittsburgh economy as: <span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-Peddlers <span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-Traders <span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-Businessmen <span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-Factory Workers

<span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">FOLLOWING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR: <span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Numerous Jewish merchants from Philadelphia moved out towards Western Pennsylvania to claim plots of land. Many would settle within Jewstown or Gratztown (near Sewickley). Most would become peddlers but some would stay, such as that of Samuel Pettigrew, settling in 1814. Pettigrew would eventually serve as mayor.

<span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">During the late 1800s: <span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">﻿-The development of Pittsburgh economy would lead to a growing Jewish population and with that, many growing synagogues. With support from one another, the rabbis would establish a House of Shelter, Home for the Aged, and Hebrew Institute. <span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-Later, Barnett David, alongside many other Jewish women, would even help to create the Montifiore Hospital due to the growing number of Jewish doctors and patients looking for work and medical care.

<span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">1900s: <span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">In 1912, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies would be founded, helping to further develop the Squirrel Hill area as means for a Jewish community. <span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">This would offer numerous support for the Jewish community, pushing for better than many would expect in other areas of the world during this time period.

<span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Zionist Movement: <span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Within Pittsburgh, mostly started by well known Rabbi Ashinsky.

<span style="color: #545fbb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Jewish Synaouge in Pittsburgh <span style="color: #0c226a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">

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<span style="color: #f53d3d; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Through Centuries of migration and prosecution, Jews have influenced the Contemporary world through their cultures. Once Jews immigrated to the United States, they began to change the way people see their religion, culture and lifestyles. This effected the generations before us and our generation is now exposed to a varied of cultures that influence lifestyles that create new ideas and interests in the city. After immigration started specifically in Pittsburgh, restaurants, shops and community gathering places began to emerge. Today, we see muc of the world better representing the equality of the Jewish community and acceptance of those 'different' than oneself. The spread of Jewish beliefs thoughout the Unnited States would helpe with the Zionist movement and helping to inspire the equality between those who practicing and do not practice Judaism. We see that nearly everyday!!

<span style="color: #f53d3d; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">This community offers four restaurants, a Jewish Community Center and an annual festival. The contemporary world has created neighborhoods that allow people with strong Jewish cultures to interact freely, without prosecution and enjoy their heritage as Jews. For example, Squirrel Hill from the 1930's till today there has been a huge increase in the Jewish population as well as becoming a center of Jewish cultures. In Pittsburgh the Jewish population is very popular in commerce including jobs at the University of Pittsburgh. According to a study done in 2002 the Jewish population in Squirrel Hill was 33% and surrounding that another 14%. Even though Squirrel Hill is only a smart part of a big city it's a major aspect of the influence on the contemporary world.

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<span style="color: #fcb75a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Social Realism

<span style="color: #fcb75a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">During the period of time in which much of the jewish population was migrating toward the united states, it can easily be said that the highly romanticized belief in the "American dream" is what caused much of the jewish immigrants to move away from their homes. Although many would see the Jews leaving their homes in Eastern European and Russia as a fruitless persuit, to the many migrating across the globe, the United States and Pittsburgh would become a haven in comparison to the discrimination and attacks they experienced in much of the world. The prospering Pittsburgh economy, including the well developing steel industry, gave the Jewish community an easy entrance into the business world. <span style="color: #fcb75a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">As for the world within the Jewish community, the people were still experiencing a decent amount of disrespect due to an ignorant population. For many of the Jews, the hatred they experienced in their previous homes was much less than previous nations but still not completely eliminated. Much of the Jewish community would work together, creating their own workplaces and residential world away from others; through developing hospitals, schools, etc. They would feel the negative cyclical lifestyle of being "a Jew," a tragic stereotype that many would continue to believe. On the plus side, a slow equality movement would begin; signs of a positive future for the Jewish population would begin to grow. <span style="color: #fcb75a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A point to notice within that of the Jewish community was the social structure of the Jews themselves. The "American Jews," who had been living in the U.S. for years, considered themselves much more westernized than that of the Eastern European and Russian Jewish population. This structure of Jewish society, especially within the Pittsburgh community, effected aspects such as education and communication.

<span style="color: #0c226a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Works Cited

<span style="color: #0c226a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">﻿"Community - Intro." Community Day. Web. 13 Jan. 2011. <@http://www.comday.org/community/>.

<span style="color: #0c226a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">"Kishinev - 1903 Pogrom." JewishGen ShtetLinks. 27 June 2010. Web. 14 Jan. 2011. <@http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/kishinev/kishinev-pogrom.html>.

<span style="color: #0c226a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">"The United States in the 1870s and 1880s." MacroHistory : World History//. Web. 14 Jan. 2011. <@http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h46-am5.htm>.