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August 31, 2023

The Jews of the Prairie

While some Jewish immigrants were content on the Lower East Side, others struck out for the Great Plains.

During the great wave of Jewish immigration to the U.S. of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, a few thousand took advantage of the Homestead Act to stake out claims in the Great Plains. Robert Zaretsky writes about this generally forgotten chapter of American Jewish history:

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