Jews in Czenstochow, Russia industry played a significant role in developing manufacturing.
Entrepreneurs would sometimes visit a German factory replicate the equipment and methods of production.
Several workers from Werder's gold factory, from Jerzy Landau's celluloid factory, from Wajnberg's comb factory, would later tell how they would sometimes interrupt the work at night and go to pray Minkhah-Maariv [evening prayers] in the small synagogue that was arranged in the factory itself. The manufacturer would with great effort gather money …show more content…
They received little, if any, assistance except from relatives. The Jewish immigrants began to fill factories and shops, especially in the clothing trade. The trade rapidly expanded; immigrant workers themselves started �home industries� and finally shops of their own http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.02.x.html; Gartner, History of the Jews of Cleveland, 165.
The German Jews’ arrival to America in the 1840’s-1850’s, coincided with the flood of immigrants that came to America in search of freedom. Therefore, their assimilation overlapped with countless other immigrants, making the Germans a less significant addition to Ohio.
When the Russian Jews fled to America in the 20th century, they not only faced stringent immigration policies but also were challenged by the nativist response from both non-Social and Political Activism. To protect themselves, the new immigrants formed formal fraternal organizations to adjust to American culture.
Labor organizations, such as the Jewish Workmen’s Circle, offered cultural and social activities with a socialist slant to Jewish workers that served as the cornerstone of the Socialist