20 interesting old photos about how Jews lived in America at the beginning of the 20th century

No one will argue with the fact that the Jews are an amazing and unique nation that has managed to maintain an extraordinary identity, originality and a spirit characteristic of this people, despite the fact that they have been persecuted and scattered throughout the earth for thousands of years.

Jews have been living in the United States since the 17th century, but they were all from Portuguese or Spanish lands. And already in the 1880s, a new wave of migration poured into America - Jews from the Russian Empire began to come to the land of dreams and great hopes. There were so many of them that synagogues began to appear everywhere and whole Jewish cities and settlements formed. It was during that period that this nation finally took root and established itself on American soil, becoming a significant and vibrant part of American society.

We present to your attention 20 interesting pictures from this fateful and incredibly important time in the history of the Jewish people.

Woodbine School

In a lesson at Woodbine School, New Jersey, early 20th century.

Military band

A full-time military unit designed to perform military music.

Agricultural workers

Workers after collecting watermelons.

Elementary school students

A common photo of all elementary school students.

Simchat Torah Festival

The beginning of a new cycle of reading the Torah is the most joyful and cheerful in the Jewish year, when all the Jewish people dance and exult.

Boy on a corn field

During the harvest of corn, 1900.

Jewish family

Woman with children at home.

Synagogue construction

Building a Jewish house of prayer.

Wholesale clothing mall middle-class department store

The slogan of the store is "Lean Shop for Lean People."

Jewish meeting

The meeting in the men's Jewish club.

Agricultural school

Pupils test eggs before laying them in an incubator.

Morning work-out

Physical education lesson in an agricultural school.

Building in front of the school

Pupils at Woodbine Agricultural School, 1900.

Jewish synagogue

Jews come out of the synagogue after prayer.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Jewish charity.

Dinner

Synagogue on Eighth Street, January 23, 1923.

Camp Activities

Women and soldiers at an event at Raritan Camp, 1920.

Stairs in the mountains

Walk on a day off, 1920.

Bikurim holiday

A holiday when the first fruits of the new harvest should be brought to the Jerusalem Temple.

Shavuot holiday

Harvest festival of the first ears of wheat.

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