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Russian Immigration

Russian immigration can date back as far as the 1700’s when Russian fur traders crossed the Bering Strait into Alaska. Most of these immigrants did not stay in Alaska but some did. The next big immigrant group from Russia was the social refugees in the mid 1800’s. The reason these immigrants came over was because of the Bolshevik revolution. The Bolshevik revolution is a “law” of sorts made by the tsar Nicholas I. The law forced hundreds of Jews to move to an area nicknamed “the pale”. The pale was a place for Jew to go and extract themselves from Russian culture. The weather conditions were harsh and the job opportunities were low. Many pogroms took place in the pale. The pale is located in western Russia and part of eastern Poland. The pale scared tons of people, which eventually caused them to immigrate to America. Many of the Jews that came to America settled in the east side in New York. They soon built a flourishing Jewish community. Much much later in the 1940's through 90's Russian Jews started to settle in an area known as Brighton beach. Brighton beach is located in Brooklyn, New York, and is a very close community.

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