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January 14, 2025

Lessons from a 1902 Lower East Side Pogrom

Jews succeeded by working together.

In 1888, Jews in New York City brought Jacob Joseph, a talmudist of the old school, from Russia to serve as the city’s chief rabbi. The plan to have a single rabbi preside over a large and fractious American Jewish community failed, but when Rabbi Joseph died in 1902, hundreds of thousands turned out for the funeral. Local Gentiles attacked the procession, and when police arrived they joined in the violence. But the reaction of New York Jewry was very different from what followed the 1991 Crown Heights pogrom, and includes important lessons for today. Andrew Silow-Carroll writes:

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