Jews in the Mines: The Industrial Removal Office Contends with Butte, Montana
June 21, 2024
By Cassandra Euphrat Weston, 2023-24 Lapidus Graduate Fellow
Jews in the Mines: The Industrial Removal Office Contends with Butte, Montana
In January 1904, Henry Jonas of Butte, Montana, wrote to the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) in New York, asking for their help sending a man named A. Pickholz from New York in order to work in Butte’s booming copper mines,…
