Deutschland in the US, Part III: The migration of Jewish Germans
Written by Sabrina Axster This is the third installment of our History of German Immigrants series. Read the first and second installments. One essential element of German migration to the US — and to NYC in particular — is that of Jewish Germans. Jewish immigration to America is traditionally divided into three categories: Sephardic, German, and Eastern European. But this doesn’t mean that there were no German Jews coming to the US during the periods of Sephardic or Eastern...