E-text prepared by Jeannie Howse, Fritz Ohrenschall, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | This document was produced from an AMS Press reprint. | | All modern material has been removed. The original, | | printed in 1914, is an article in a journal, with it's | | own page numbering (as well as the journal page numbering,| | which has been removed from this transcription). | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ 4 JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES Studies in History, Economics and Public Law Edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University Volume LIX] [Number 4 Whole Number 145 JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES FROM 1881 TO 1910 by SAMUEL JOSEPH 1914 To MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER PREFACE In this survey of Jewish immigration to the United States for the past thirty years, my purpose has been to present the main features of a movement of population that is one of the most striking of modern times. The causes of Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe, the course of Jewish immigration to the United States and the most important social qualities of the Jewish immigrants are studied, for the light they throw upon the character of this movement. The method employed in this investigation has been largely statistical and comparative, a fact which is partly due to the kind of material that was available and partly to the point of view that has been taken. Certain economic and social factors, having a close bearing upon the past and present situation of the Jews in Eastern Europe and frequently neglected in the discussion of the various phases of this movement, have been emphasized in the examination into the causes of the emigration of the Jews from Eastern Europe and have been found vital in determining the specific character of the Jewish immigration to this country.