Where did the Jews come from when they immigrated to the US?

Answer 1

The first Jews to arrive in what is now America settled primarily in New York City, Charleston (SC), and Providence (RI). They arrived as immigrants in small waves. By the time of US independence, there were already several synagogues in the USA such as the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, which remains the oldest synagogue on the US mainland.

Their method of arrival was in boats.

Answer 2

Answer 1

The first Jews in the New World arrived the same way everyone else except the native Americans ("Indians") did. They were members of Christopher Columbus' crew, and arrived by boat. Indeed, that remained the only way to get here until well into the 20th Century.

In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, several students at Yale delivered their commencement orations in Hebrew. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Pennsylvania taught courses in Hebrew ― all the more remarkable because no university in England at the time offered it.

In America, Bible study and Hebrew were course requirements in virtually all of these colleges and students had the option of delivering commencement speeches

in either Hebrew, Latin or Greek.

Beginning around the mid-20th Century, those who were in a hurry and could afford it began to arrive by air.

Answer 2

Jews specifically came to America by immigrating in waves. The first Jews in the Americas arrived in Recife, Brazil and the first Jews in the current United States arrived in the Dutch and Swedish colonies of New York and Delaware. They came by boat and established communities. Jews also established a small community in Rhode Island early on.

In the early days of the United States, not many Jews immigrated since they were either unable to leave their country of origin or did not really consider the New World viable. Jewish Immigration greatly increased along with the rise of German and Eastern European immigration in the late 1800s.

Some Jews arrived in the United States after the World Wars up to the present, but the majority of Jewish immigration occurred between 1880-1920, by boat.

Answer 3

1. From about 1880-1914a. Mainly from the Russian Empire, especially from Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine.

b. From parts of Austria-Hungary, especially the Polish areas.

c. On a smaller scale, from Germany.

2. From 1933-1941Mainly from Nazi Germany and from Austria.

Answer 4

Recife, Brazil

Answer 5

By ship or plane.