Museum of american and jewish history for a tour of their exhibition, tracing the history of jewish people in america. In the second exhibit, we pick up a story in the 1880s, when an era rock thousands to east brought thousands of immigrants to eastern from Eastern Europe every year. We started to see big waves of immigrants coming to america. They included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. Coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is the archetype of the arrival story. People were coming to baltimore, philadelphia, boston, and places like galveston, texas, and california as well. Display a number of the types of documents immigrants would have needed when coming into these ports. Everything from passports to visas, luggage tags, Health Inspection certificates. These are things that people tended to save for a long time afterward and even past down to their children. They carried great meaning for them. Jews left europe for many
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