2 Origin: Jewish Experiences in their Eastern European Context
“No description can even begin to lead to a valid explanation
if it does not effectively encompass the whole world.”1
Fernand Braudel
To consider the whole world of Jewish radicals in New York City, one has to look back to their origins in Eastern Europe to find a shared experience that determined their wish for a better life across the Atlantic and thereby created similar hopes and dreams in the hearts and minds of so many young people who dared to leave their homes in search of a better future. While the young immigrants arrived full of hope, their growing numbers worried both long-established Jewish communities and antisemitic elements of the societies facing this increase ...
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