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“Yours very respectaly, M. Blum”: Correspondence between a New Jersey Jewish Farmer and the Industrial Removal Office, 1902-1905

By Lauren Gilbert, Director of Public Services, Center for Jewish History

“Yours very respectaly, M. Blum”: Correspondence between a New Jersey Jewish Farmer and the Industrial Removal Office, 1902-1905

In response to the massive waves of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe around the turn of the 20th century, leaders of the German-Jewish community in New York City founded the rather forbiddingly named Industrial Removal…

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Postcard, Atlantic City. Circa 1940. Yeshiva University Museum.

Reverse: The Breakers on the Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey: The Largest Kosher Hotel in the United States. Postmarked from Atlantic City, N.J. August 13, 1940 and addressed to Mr. and Mrs. David Turner, Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

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