The reasons behind each wave of Jewish migration, how they became a "model minority", and a lot more can be found here.

From The Peopling of NYC

Contents 1 Ethnic Enclave: History, Neighborhood, and (Self)Help 1.1 Waves: The History of Immigration and Incorporation (Nation, City, and Enclave) 1.2 In and Out of the Ghetto: Housing conditions, Tenements, Ethnic Succession, & the Ethnic Enclave 1.3 Religion: Tradition Transformed (American forms of Jewish Life) 2 On Our Own Terms: Assimilation and Culture 2.1 Inside Voices: Our struggle in Our Own Words 2.2 Outside Voices: Praise and Criticism of our Accomplishments and Suitability as Americans 2.3 The Generation Gap: Jewish Immigrants and Jewish-Americans 3 The (Myth of the) Model Minority 3.1 Entrepreneurship: Business owners, Education, Professionalization 3.2 Politics: From Socialism to Zionism, and Beyond 3.3 American Dreaming: Pogroms, Refugees, Special Status, Aid and Outreach 3.4 The Hidden World of the Working Class: Labor, Work, Employment 4 Sources 5 Credits

Ethnic Enclave: History, Neighborhood, and (Self)Help

Waves: The History of Immigration and Incorporation (Nation, City, and Enclave)

To learn about the where the different waves of immigrants came from and how they begin to acculturate (or assimilate) click here.

In and Out of the Ghetto: Housing conditions, Tenements, Ethnic Succession, & the Ethnic Enclave

Arrival in the Big Apple: Lower East Side, N.Y.

Lower East Side Housing Conditions

Suburbanization: Americanization with a hint of Jew

Jewish Migration & Social Bonding

Religion: Tradition Transformed (American forms of Jewish Life)

Judaism

The "New Role" of the Synagogue

On Our Own Terms: Assimilation and Culture

Inside Voices: Our struggle in Our Own Words

In-depth Interview with Polish Immigrant: Lawrence Meinwald

The Melting Process: Education

Slowly but Surely: The Success Formula

Jewish Women in the United States

Dietary Habits

Outside Voices: Praise and Criticism of our Accomplishments and Suitability as Americans

The Role of German Jews

Those Who Were There to Help

Anti-Semitism

Outspoken Anti-Semites

Rise and Fall of the Jews-Blacks Alliance

The Generation Gap: Jewish Immigrants and Jewish-Americans

A Brighter Tomorrow (Lawrence Meinwald)

The (Myth of the) Model Minority

Entrepreneurship: Business owners, Education, Professionalization

Business

Entrepreneurship of the Jews

Politics: From Socialism to Zionism, and Beyond

Politics

Notable Jews in Politics

Socialism

"The Forward"

American Dreaming: Pogroms, Refugees, Special Status, Aid and Outreach

Government Ignorance with Regard to the “Final Solution”

The Jewish Reaction to World War II

Hardships of the New World

The Hidden World of the Working Class: Labor, Work, Employment

Jobs

Sources

Sorin, Gerald. Tradition Transformed The Jewish Experience in America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Waters, Mary C., and Reed Ueda, eds. The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Press Library, 2007.
Meinwald, Lawrence. "Interview with Ellis Island Oral History Collection." Lawrence Meinwald. 26 Apr. 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=WNiHjsL2NWI&mode=related&search
The Jewish Museum. "Getting Comfortable in New York The American Jewish Home 1880-1950." New York: Library of Congress, 1990.
Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives. 26 Apr. 2007 <http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html>.

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