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to get a job or even to make friends. In one of the letters, a young Jewish woman would go to work each day knowing that she would be harassed when she arrived. One of her fellow co-workers said the all Galician Jews should be dead. With comments like that, I myself would try to hide the fact that I am of different culture. The Jewish people would have to slowly bring back there heritage after they become treated more equally. Another letter about a 18 year old boy, that is a machinist, would get beaten up as if he was a punching bag. He left the job only to receive the same treatment in the other jobs. “As soon as they found out that I was a Jew they began to torment me so that I had to leave the place,” said the boy (64). The letters do reveal that immigration was a cultural process.
What made you an American during the time of the Jewish arrivals? To be an American in those times, meant that you must be born on the American soil. Also you must be of the white ...

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