{"id":93,"date":"2016-05-03T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T14:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2024-12-03T21:34:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T21:34:53","slug":"jews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/ethnic-groups\/jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1464908287140{margin-top: -40px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 10px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Passover seder provided by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society for new arrivals at the East Boston immigration Station, 1921. Photograph by permission of the American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, Boston, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_69df4dd2e374a{font-size:36px;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl vc_custom_1464908327580 vcex_69df4dd2e374a\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Jews<\/span><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1684332718423{margin-bottom: -40px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]Although small numbers of Sephardic Jews passed through Boston in the colonial era, the city had no significant Jewish presence until the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1840s and 1850s, Jews from Poland and Germany began arriving, coming especially from the Prussian-ruled provinces of Posen and Pomerania. Fleeing economic deprivation and religious persecution, the new Jewish arrivals to\u00a0the city numbered about a thousand on the eve of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-577\" style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3-DPs-arrive-1948-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-577\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3-DPs-arrive-1948-crop-826x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society worker welcomes DPs from Eastern Europe at the East Boston Immigration Station, 1948-49. Photograph by permission of the American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, Boston, MA.\" width=\"426\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3-DPs-arrive-1948-crop-826x1024.jpg 826w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3-DPs-arrive-1948-crop-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3-DPs-arrive-1948-crop-768x952.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society worker welcomes DPs from Eastern Europe at the East Boston Immigration Station, 1948-49. Photograph by permission of the American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, Boston, MA.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beginning in the 1880s, a much larger wave of Jewish immigrants arrived from the Pale of Settlement in Russia and Eastern Europe. During the nineteenth century, the Russian czars had confined Jews to this region and subjected them to religious persecution, expulsions, and forced military conscription. Passage of the May Laws in the 1880s made matters worse by forbidding Jews from owning or renting land outside of towns or cities and limiting their access to education. From 1881-1883 and again in the early twentieth century, Jews were also targeted in violent riots or \u201cpogroms\u201d that left thousand dead and caused many more to flee.<\/p>\n<p>After World War II, a small wave of Holocaust survivors and other refugees were resettled in greater Boston through the efforts of local Jewish philanthropies such as the Boston Refugee Committee and Jewish Family and Children\u2019s Services. Later, some of these same refugees and organizations would work to resettle Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s. Roughly 10,000 had settled in greater Boston by the early 1990s, and Jewish emigration from Russia and the former Soviet republics has continued into the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Settlement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prior to the Civil War, Jews from Central Europe originally settled in what is now the theater district and Park Square; they later fanned out across the lower <a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/the-south-end\/\">South End<\/a>. A second wave of Russian Jewish immigrants settled here as well, but the surge of new arrivals soon pushed Jewish settlement into the North and West Ends. The latter would become especially important: by 1910, roughly 40,000 Jews were living in the <a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/the-west-end\/\">West End<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-506\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/11-WA-Rogers-Jewish-Quarter.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-506\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/11-WA-Rogers-Jewish-Quarter.jpg\" alt=\"William Allen Rogers, The Jewish Quarter, Boston, 1899. Courtesy of Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.\" width=\"393\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/11-WA-Rogers-Jewish-Quarter.jpg 515w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/11-WA-Rogers-Jewish-Quarter-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>William Allen Rogers, The Jewish Quarter [North End], Boston, 1899. Courtesy of Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>New arrivals were also attracted to industrial communities north of the city, especially <a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/chelsea\/\">Chelsea<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/lynn\/\">Lynn<\/a>, where expanding factories employed thousands of immigrant workers. With Jews making up nearly half of Chelsea\u2019s population by the 1930s, it became known as \u201cthe Jerusalem of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in Boston, prosperous\u00a0Jewish merchants and their families had begun moving to the more bucolic <a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/roxbury\/\">Roxbury<\/a> neighborhood in the late nineteenth century. Soon, middle and working class Jews followed. In the first half of the twentieth century, Jewish settlement spread progressively south along <a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/dorchester\/blue-hill-avenuer\/\">Blue Hill Avenue<\/a>, from Roxbury to <a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/dorchester\/\">Dorchester<\/a> and Mattapan. After World War II, many moved further out to suburbs such as Brookline, Newton, Swampscott, Marblehead, and Sharon, bringing their synagogues and other community institutions with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early Jewish immigrants in Boston worked mainly as peddlers and tailors, with the most successful opening retail businesses or garment shops. The later Russian Jews were more likely to work in the region\u2019s growing shoe and textile mills, but especially in the garment industry of the South End, shops often run by the older\u00a0Jewish entrepreneurs. Like their predecessors, second wave migrants also worked as peddlers and small business owners, including a growing number who operated <a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/jewish-restaurants-in-boston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kosher groceries and restaurants<\/a>. Others worked recycling rags, scrap metal and other industrial refuse. Despite these humble beginnings, many of their children were able to pursue education and advancement into white-collar professions. In the late twentieth century, Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union tended to be more highly skilled and educated than earlier groups. Many were professionals who found work in technology, engineering, and medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/bibliography\/#jews\"><strong>Sources and Further Reading<\/strong><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69df4dd2e44b1 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1628626928649 vcex_69df4dd2e44b1\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20 wpex-text-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/ethnic-groups\/jews\/from-plotzk-to-boston\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\"><img width=\"180\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/MaryAntinCROP.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/ethnic-groups\/jews\/from-plotzk-to-boston\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\">From Plotzk to Boston<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Born in Russia\u00a0in 1881, Mary Antin moved with her family to Boston at the age of 13. Antin would become one of the most renowned immigrant writers of her generation.\u00a0Read her riveting account of her journey to Boston in 1894.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69df4dd2e4eeb .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1628626909135 vcex_69df4dd2e4eeb\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/eras-of-migration\/test-page-3\/from-romanov-to-dorchester-by-way-of-havana\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\"><img width=\"4869\" height=\"3133\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cormans-1940-crop.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"A man and a woman stand in front of a car on a residential street in Dorchester. The man has his hand around the woman&#039;s shoulder.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cormans-1940-crop.jpg 4869w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cormans-1940-crop-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cormans-1940-crop-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cormans-1940-crop-1024x659.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4869px) 100vw, 4869px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/eras-of-migration\/test-page-3\/from-romanov-to-dorchester-by-way-of-havana\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\">Alternate Routes<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Despite immigration restriction, some families\u00a0managed to come to\u00a0the US during the mid-twentieth century\u00a0by entering via other\u00a0countries. One such family was\u00a0the\u00a0Cormans of Dorchester, Russian Jews who discovered a back door into the US.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69df4dd2e57f1 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1684332625691 vcex_69df4dd2e57f1\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/jewish-restaurants-in-boston\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img width=\"3306\" height=\"2145\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Young-Israel-ca-1930s.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Young-Israel-ca-1930s.jpg 3306w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Young-Israel-ca-1930s-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Young-Israel-ca-1930s-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Young-Israel-ca-1930s-1024x664.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3306px) 100vw, 3306px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/jewish-restaurants-in-boston\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Restaurants in Boston<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Thanks to kosher food and the growing popularity of the delicatessen, Jewish restaurants appeared in greater numbers than those of any other immigrant group after World War I. From East Boston to Mattapan, Jewish-owned restaurants could be found in almost any Boston neighborhood in the 1920s and 1930s.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69df4dd2e606a .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1632149551296 vcex_69df4dd2e606a\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/lynn\/jews-in-the-shoe-trade\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" title=\"Jews in the Shoe Trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img width=\"800\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Women-stitchers-AE-Little-Co.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"A photograph of two rows of women working on sewing machines in a shoe factory.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Women-stitchers-AE-Little-Co.jpg 800w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Women-stitchers-AE-Little-Co-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Women-stitchers-AE-Little-Co-768x579.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/lynn\/jews-in-the-shoe-trade\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" title=\"Jews in the Shoe Trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Jews in the Shoe Trades<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>While thousands of Russian and Eastern European Jews settled in Lynn and labored in city&#8217;s shoe factories, a smaller number followed a surprising path to become successful entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69df4dd2e68f8 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1628627104755 vcex_69df4dd2e68f8\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/ethnic-groups\/jews\/seeking-kin\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\"><img width=\"399\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The_Jewish_Advocate_issue_of_February_9_1912_on_the_Jewish_Settlement_in_Boston.pdf.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The_Jewish_Advocate_issue_of_February_9_1912_on_the_Jewish_Settlement_in_Boston.pdf.jpg 399w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The_Jewish_Advocate_issue_of_February_9_1912_on_the_Jewish_Settlement_in_Boston.pdf-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/ethnic-groups\/jews\/seeking-kin\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\">Seeking Kin<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Like other new immigrants, Jews sought to reunite with family and friends in America. But this was especially important after the Holocaust. See how Jewish refugees during and after World War II sought out\u00a0long lost family members in the Boston area.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69df4dd2e714b .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1628627120185 vcex_69df4dd2e714b\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/dorchester\/blue-hill-avenuer\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" title=\"Blue Hill Avenuer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img width=\"528\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GG-Deli-Blue-Hill-Avenue-crop.jpeg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GG-Deli-Blue-Hill-Avenue-crop.jpeg 528w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GG-Deli-Blue-Hill-Avenue-crop-300x240.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/dorchester\/blue-hill-avenuer\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" title=\"Blue Hill Avenuer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Hill Avenue: Jewish Main Street<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Once a rural byway connecting Roxbury to the village of Mattapan, Blue Hill Avenue would become the central artery of Jewish life in Boston in the mid-20th century.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69df4dd2e7ab0 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1733261688680 vcex_69df4dd2e7ab0\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jwa.org\/oralhistories\/collection\/soviet-jewry\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/annacharny.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/annacharny.jpg 600w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/annacharny-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/annacharny-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jwa.org\/oralhistories\/collection\/soviet-jewry\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soviet Jewry Project<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Explore stories of Jewish refuseniks and American Jewish activists in greater Boston, an oral history project sponsored by the Jewish Women&#8217;s Archive.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=&#8221;Return to Ethnic Groups&#8221; style=&#8221;3d&#8221; color=&#8221;inverse&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:http%3A%2F%2Fglobalboston.bc.edu%2Findex.php%2Fhome%2Fethnic-groups%2F||&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1464908287140{margin-top: -40px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 10px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;] Passover seder provided by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society for new arrivals at the East Boston immigration Station, 1921. 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