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18 Detroit Jewish News
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hronicling the dispersion of
Russian-Jewish immigrants
from the ghettos of New
York City to smaller Jewish
communities across the United
States, is the
subject of
by translating letters that were sent to
the IRO office in New York.
Reading the letters "reminded me
just how difficult the life of immi-
grants to the U.S. was. Their existence
was far less as fun-filled as some of our
overly romanticized films and plays
would have us believe. Jewish immi-
grants endured loneliness, long peri-
ods of unemployment, culture shock
and family tragedies," said Rockaway.
The first part of the book includes
the letters of traveling agents, local
agents and the communities them-
selves.
Words of the
Uprooted:
Jewish
Immigrants in
Early 20th-
Century
America by-
Israeli profes-,
sor Robert
Rockaway.
The Detroit
native's works
Robert Rockaway
include The
Jews of Detroit:
From the Beginning, 1762-1914.
Rockaway is now a senior lecturer
in the Department of Jewish
History at Tel-Aviv University.
As a way to escape the virulent
anti-Semitism and pogroms of
their Russian homeland, thou-
sands of Jews began arriving on
the shores of New York City in
the late 1800s.
From 1881 through the next
two decades, the city's Jewish pop-
ulation swelled from 80,000 to
more than 510,000.
The city's American Jewish
leaders formed the Industrial
Removal Office (IRO) in 1901 to
disperse Jewish immigrants — on
"Words of the Uprooted" by Robert Rockaway.
an individual basis — to jobs in
smaller Jewish communities
throughout the United States; thereby
Complaining of the ambivalence of
reducing the size of the ghettos and
the
established German-Jewish com-
preventing the bankruptcy of the city's
munity
to Eastern European immi-
Jewish charitable organizations.
grants
in
South Bend, Ind., Elias
From 1901 to 1922, the IRO sent
Margolis, a traveling agent, wrote on
79,000 Eastern European Jews to over
May 22, 1908:
1,500 cities and towns.
". . .This city presents a peculiar
Rockaway chronicles this dispersion