Ruth Gay lives in Hamden, Connecticut, with her husband, Peter Gay. She is the author also of The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait.
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Nearly three million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I, filled with the hope of life in a new land. Most were young, single, uneducated, and unskilled; many were children or teens. They were, in a sense,... SEE MORE