Immigration Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

“Many Americans shared his views. The new law was extremely popular and seemed to solve the nation’s “immigrant problem,” at least for the time…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“In many ways, England was home to the first modern Jewish community in the world.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“The United States, Canada, and Australia had formidable immigration barriers in place, and while the British had admitted 80,000 Jewish refugees, all of that…

— Matthew A. Rozell

“The contemporary needs of North American Jews are directly tied to the trajectory of the immigrant experience in North America. The generation now coming…

— Kerry M. Olitzky

Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin.

— Zygmunt Bauman

I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention…

— Muhammad Asad

In the late '80s, the U.S.S.R. loosened its restrictions on immigration. When the government was like, 'Y'all wanna bounce?' my family, along with tens…

— Milana Vayntrub

“It was left to the Progressive movement in America (as to the Fabians in Britain) to promote eugenics, Prohibition, dietary fads, the compulsory sterilisation…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Even more systemic persecution was on the way, Messersmith wrote. He had learned that a draft existed of a new law that would effectively…

— Erik Larson

“Like poor immigrants throughout the ages, Jews there adjusted to the jobs no one else would do.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“In May 1925, President Calvin Coolidge signed the National Origins Act into law. The new law effectively closed the United States to most Jewish…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“A circular letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to all German authorities abroad shortly after the November pogroms of 1918 stated: "The emigration…

— Hannah Arendt