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Leaving the Old Country
Jewish immigrants came from many countries over a long period of time.  The largest group came from the Russian Empire around the turn of the century. Squeezed by poverty and subjected to anti-Semitism that threatened their livelihoods and often their very lives, Jews fled Russia.
They left behind a rich culture, centuries old.
Jewish immigrant women carried their culture with them — in their hearts, in their memories, and in the bundles of treasured possessions they brought from the Old Country.
top photo: Immigrants at Ellis Island, New York, about 1900. Courtesy of Culver Pictures, New York.
inset photo: Portrait in chalk, about 1920; identity of the man and of the artist unknown. Courtesy of Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
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