Section: Immigration
 

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Section: Emigration/Immigration
Sub Section: Discussed by the United States and other Countries
Article Name: Emigration Pre-1900 Part I
Article Name: Emigration Pre-1900 Part II
Article Name: Emigration From A Different Point of View Pre-1913 Part I
Article Name: Emigration From A Different Point of View Pre-1913 Part II
Article Name: Emigration From A Different Point of View Pre-1913 Part III
Article Name: Presidential Papers Regarding Immigration Pre-1897
Article Name: The Martin Koszta Affair Pre-1857
Article Name: Argentina and It's Immigration Law Pre-1908
Article Name: Chile and Bolivia Prior to 1908
Article Name: Paraguay-Immigration Encouraged By Government
Article Name: Uruguay: The Ease of the Immigration Law Pre-1926
Article Name: Brazil: Immigration Law Pre-1908
Article Name: Austria-Hungary (Officially the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy)
Article Name: Belgium and Australia Pre -1900
Article Name: Germany Pre-1900
Article Name: Ireland: Causes of Emigration Pre-1900
Article Name: Italy and It's Emigration Pre-1900
Article Name: Chinese Immigration In The United States Pre-1900
Article Name: Presidential Papers 1789-1897 Regarding Chinese Immigration Part I
Article Name: Presidential Papers 1789-1897 Regarding Chinese Immigration Part II
Article Name: Causes Of Emigration/Immigration of The Jewish People Pre 1900 Part I
Article Name: Causes Of Emigration/Immigration of The Jewish People Pre 1900 Part II
Article Name: Quarantine: An Effective Measure In The Control of Contagious Diseases
Web Link: Landmarks In Immigration History
Special Mention: "I Go To America, " Reaching For The American Dream by Miriam Medina: This is a four part essay on the subject of Immigration during the period of the 19th century through the early 20th century.        1/30/07
Section: Immigration In New York
Sub Section: General Historical Information
Article Name: The Emigrant, Pre-1868
Article Name: Immigration In The State Of New York Pre-1927
Article Name: Castle Garden                  Posted 11/2/06
Article Name: The Old World In New York Part I                      Posted 12/16/08
Article Name: The Old World In New York Part II                     Posted 12/16/08
Web Link On the Trail Of The Immigrant,  A Photo Album of Immigration. This photo album is based upon text and pictures by Edward A.Steiner, published in 1906 by the Fleming H.Revell Company.
Web Link A Slide show of Immigrants: Watch the immigrants closely as you imagine yourself being in their situation. Imagine how they felt, what went on in their minds, while you see the expressions on their faces becoming real.
Web Link The Journey To America: Bridging the Atlantic
Web Link Relive A Boy's Journey
Web Link The Immigrant Experience Social  History: Part 1 & 2
Web Link Passage To America, 1750 (A German immigrant describes the arduous journey to Colonial America)
Web Link Story of Immigration in the United States-Ellis Island
Web Link Getting Tagged For Railroad Trip by Official in Ellis Island-1905
Web Link The Barge Office-1898
Web Link Abuses At The  Barge Office-1900
Web Link Immigrant Life in New York
Web Link The Restoration of Ellis Island
Web Link Immigrating to America 1905
Web Link Castle Garden America's First Immigration Center
Web Link New York Naturalizations 1792-1840
Web Link The Forgotten of Ellis Island: Deaths in Quarantine 1909-1911
Sub Section: Selected Images of Ellis Island and Immigration 1880-1920
Special Mention: "My Trip To Ellis Island Photo Gallery" a narration with pictures by Miriam Medina
Web Link Waiting for Ellis Island Ferry
Web Link Welcome to the Land of Freedom
Web Link Landing At Ellis Island
Web Link Ellis Island, New York
Web Link Awaiting Examination, Ellis Island
Web Link Examination Hall Ellis Island
Web Link Emigrants Coming To The Land of Promise
Web Link Italian Immigrant Family at Ellis Island
Sub Section: How The Immigrants Lived In New York: Photographer: Lewis W. Hine: George Eastman House Collection
Web Link Tenement Life-child bathing in Sink
Web Link Poor Home New York City Tenement
Web Link Child Labor At Home
Web Link New York Tenement Family Gets Fresh Air On a Hot Day, 1910
Web Link Newsboys in the early 1900s
Web Link Street Play in the Early Days of New York City-1910
Web Link Boys With Wagons of Scrap Wood
Web Link Boy Carrying Home Work From New York  Sweatshops
Web Link Child Labor in Tenement Building
Web Link Negro Family, Tenement Living Photo
Web Link Italian Family Making Artificial Flowers in Tenement Building
Web Link Women Rag Pickers-1915
Web Link Tenement Street Scene-1910
Web Link Kitchen in a Cold Water Flat Tenement
Web Link New York Home Work in Tenement
Web Link New York Homework Family 1906
Sub Section: The Marchand Collection At The University of California
Web Link Italian Immigrants in the Sleeping Quarters that New York offered the Newcomers.
Web Link A Sweatshop Tenement Flat on Ludlow Street, New York. 1889
Web Link Children Playing in Street Sprinkler 1915
Web Link Father, mother and daughter work together sewing clothing at home."
Web Link An Italian family and five bunches of artificial flowers in its New York City Home, 1908.
Web Link Hester Street, c. 1903. The heart of New York City's Lower East Side
Web Link Child tenement dwellers on a fire escape
Web Link An alley strewn with bottles and trash, 1889
Web Link Mother with infant and children in sleeping area of a crowded tenement apartment, c.1910
Web Link Immigrants making clothing at a shop, 1912
Web Link Mother and children in a tenement kitchen, 1915
Web Link Immigrant family working on sewing at home: the Romana family, New York City, 1912.
Web Link Pushcart peddler in Lower East Side, New  York, early 1900s.
Web Link Crowded Hester Street, early 1900s.
Web Link Orchard Street in New York, 1898
Web Link A Street in the Five Points district of New York City, 1870. The slum streets were narrow, crowded and strewn with garbage.
Web Link Steerage passengers. The "huddled masses," steerage passengers who came by the thousands between 1880 and 1914 to escape the unbearable conditions in Eastern Europe.
Web Link Italian Family Looking for Baggage in Ellis Island
Web Link Deck scene on an immigrant liner in the first years of the 20th century
Web Link Immigrants penned up by nationality on Ellis Island c. 1910.
Section: Ethnic Groups of New York
Sub Section: The Italians
Article Name: The Italian Immigrant in New York
Special Mention: The Italian Immigrant Experience  by Miriam Medina                               Posted 1/10/08           
Article Name: The Joy of Growing up Italian (Permission to use granted by DellaRocchetta.com)
Article Name: Italian Feast In Brooklyn 1900                                                                   Posted 1/7/08
Article Name: Italians Celebrating Saint Roque's Day 1902                                             Posted 1/7/08
Article Name: Brooklyn's Little Italy 1900 Part I                                                                Posted 1/7/08
Article Name: Brooklyn's Little Italy 1900 Part II                                                                Posted 1/7/08
Article Name: Fifth Avenue and A Church In Little Italy 1896                                           Posted 1/11/08
Article Name: Abuse Against An Italian At Barge Office 1902                                         Posted 1/11/08
Article Name: Irate Italians Over New Orleans Lynching Discussed in N.Y. 1891           Posted 1/11/08
Article Name: The Immigrant Coming Here To Suffer 1900                                               Posted 1/12/08
Article Name: Italian Immigration Abuses                                                                          Posted 1/12/08
Article Name: The Danger Encountered by Girl Immigrants 1880                                     Posted 1/12/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part I 1896                                         Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part II 1896                                        Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part III 1896                                       Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part IV 1896                                      Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part V 1896                                       Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: Sicilian's Save Money To Carry Out Their Vengeance here 1902            Posted 1/28/08
Article Name: Old Vendetta in Sicily Behind Catania Killing 1902                                     Posted 1/28/08
Article Name: Italian Life In New York 1892 Part I                                                            Posted 2/20/08
Article Name: Italian Life in New York 1892 Part II                                                           Posted 2/20/08
Article Name: The Italian Women and Their Families 1919                                               Posted 2/22/08
Web Link Italian Immigration
Web Link Italians to America (genealogy)
Web Link Mark Pezzano: Italian Folk Singer
Web Link Becoming Americans, The Italian Experience in the New World
Web Link lItalian Lodge and Foundation
Web Link Mama Mi Sei Sorella, Amica e Consigliera: The Many Roles That the Italian Mother Plays
Web Link Notable Italians in New York
Web Link The Wartime Violations of Italian American Civil Liberties Act
Web Link Injustice to Italian Laborers: A Deplorable Lynching-Presidential Papers
Web Link Italian Immigration in New York
Web Link Musica Palermo: The Debut of Sollima's Opera "Ellis Island
Web Link Prisoner in Your Own Home
Web Link Italian-Americans
Web Link Ships Links on Italian Genealogy
Web Link Cimorelli
Web Link Series of Talks by Pope Leo XIII Feb. 20, 1878-July 20, 1903.
Web Link Series of Talks by Pope John Paul II 1978-2005
Web Link Italy Research Outline
Web Link Group of Italians at Ellis Island Photo 1905
Web Link Italian Ancestry.com -The Ultimate Jump site For All Things Italian
Web Link Italian Family Making Artificial Flowers in East Side Tenement-1908
Web Link Lodge-Sons of Italy
Web Link The Lisanti Family Chapel in Williamsbridge, The Bronx
Web Link Italian Family Making Artificial Flowers in East Side Tenement-1908
Web Link Italian Family Looking For Luggage in Ellis Island-picture
Web Link East Harlem Italian Feast , Giglio Feast
Web Link Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast-East Harlem
Web Link The Naming of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge :Italian Historical Society
Sub Section: The Irish
Article Name: The Fenian Society
Article Name: The Irish Immigrant in New York
Article Name: Irish Pioneers of New York City
Special Mention: An excellent E-Book for the benefit of the Irish-American Community. " The Irish in America" by John Francis Magurire 1868.
Web Link Views of the Famine in Ireland
Web Link Irish Dancing
Web Link Irish Step Dancing in America: History
Web Link Irish Neighborhoods, The Five Points, The Fourth Ward and the Tenderloin
Web Link Irish in Nyc: The Bowery, Greenwich Village and Hell's Kitchen
Web Link
Web Link NY-Irish Mailing List (look-ups for New York area)
Web Link Ireland: Causes of Immigration
Web Link Irish Immigrant in New York
Web Link Irish Biographical Sketches
Web Link The First St. Patrick's Cathedral
Web Link Irish American Heritage Museum: Albany
Web Link The Irish and Ethnic Relations in New York City
Web Link Abie's Irish Stew
Web Link Apple And Barley Pudding (Irish)
Web Link Black Pudding Croquette With Gooseberry Compote, Ireland
Web Link Irish Recipes
Web Link Cabbage & Bacon (Irish)
Web Link Irish American Lamb Stew
Web Link The Irish Potato Famine
Web Link How Dagger John Saved New York's Irish
Web Link The Definitive Guide to the Irish Pubs of New York City
Sub Section: The Jewish People
Article Name: The First Jewish Colony on Manhattan island
Article Name: Jewish Knowledge A-Z  Ltr. A
Article Name: Jewish Knowledge A-Z  Ltr. B
Article Name: Jewish Knowledge A-Z  Ltr. C
Article Name: Jewish Knowledge A-Z  Ltr. D
Article Name: Jewish Knowledge A-Z  Ltr. E
Article Name: Jewish Knowledge A-Z Ltr.  F
Article Name: Jewish Knowledge A-Z Ltr. G
Article Name: Jewish Knowledge A-Z Ltr. H
Article Name: Jewish Knowledge A-Z  Ltrs. I-J     Posted 12/15/06
Article Name: Jewish Dietary Laws
Article Name: Jewish Knowledge: Eighteen Benedictions
Article Name: Cabala
Article Name: Violent Demonstrations At Chief Rabbi Joseph's Funeral 1902
Article Name: Jews, in Huge Parade, Mourn Dead In Russia.1905                     Posted 11/9/06.
Article Name: Customs and Habits of the Jewish Population on the East Side : 1895         Posted 11/9/06
Article Name: Jews on East Side Bury Their Scrolls: Parchments Damaged by Fire 1907      Posted 11/9/06
Article Name: Causes Of Emigration/Immigration of The Jewish People Pre 1900 Part I
Article Name: Causes Of Emigration/Immigration of The Jewish People Pre 1900 Part II
Article Name: Feast of Purim, A Hebrew Festival Generally Observed in Brooklyn-1889    Posted 11/12/06
Article Name: Our Hebrew Cemeteries 1886                                 Posted 2/18/07
Article Name: The Hebrews Among Us 1870                                Posted 2/19/07
Article Name: Synagogue Government Part I                                 Posted 3/24/07
Article Name: Synagogue Government Part II                                Posted 3/24/07
Article Name: Synagogue Government Part III                               Posted 3/24/07
Article Name Synagogue Government Part IV                              Posted 3/24/07
Article Name Synagogue Government Part V                               Posted 3/24/07
Article Name: Brooklyn's Jewish Businessmen: Pre: 1925 Aaron-Abels                                                 Posted 3/21/07
Article Name: Brooklyn's Jewish   Businessmen: Pre: 1925 Ageloff-Alpert                                          Posted 3/22/07
Article Name: Brooklyn's Jewish Businessmen: Pre: 1925 Arens-Arons                                              Posted 3/23/07
Article Name: Brooklyn's Jewish Businessmen: Pre: 1925 Bachrach-Bailey                                         Posted 3/23/07
Article Name: Brooklyn's Jewish Businessmen: Pre: 1925 Balton-Barnett                                             Posted 3/23/07
Article Name: Brooklyn's Jewish Businessmen: Pre: 1925 Barnett-Baum                                              Posted 3/26/07
Article Name: Brooklyn's Jewish Businessmen: Pre: 1925 Belinky-Berg                                                Posted 3/28/07
Article Name: Brooklyn's Jewish Businessmen: Pre: 1925 Bernstein-Bernstein                                    Posted 3/29/07
Web Link: Biography of a work in progress: Barbara Streisand
Web Link: Evelyn Pike Rubin:Jewish Activist, Author and Lecturer
Web Link: Jewish Cemeteries in the New York Metropolitan Area
Web Link: Jewish Politicians of New York
Web Link: From Shetl to Tenements
Web Link: Jewish Leaders
Web Link: Emigration/Immigration of Jews
Web Link: Progress of the Jewish Community-Pre 1934
Web Link: Jewish First Names and Surnames
Web Link: Bravo, Bravo, Bravo, Jewish Women! The Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902
Web Link: The Battle of the Balcony: 1756
Web Link: Ernestine Louise Rose: The First American Jewish Feminist
Web Link: The Kings of Copper: The Hendricks Family of New York
Web Link: The Americanization of Reform Judaism
Web Link: Notable People of the Jewish Community of New York
Web Link: Jewish Communal Interests in New York-Pre 1934
Web Link: Humble Roots of American Retailing
Web Link: Penina Moise: America's First Female Jewish Poet and Hymnist
Web Link: Noble Prize Award: Jewish Community-Pre 1934
Web Link: Jewish "Continuity" in Early America
Web Link: Vindication of an American Jewish Patriot
Web Link: Jewish Institute of Religion, Information and Graduates List 1926-1933
Web Link: Jewish Theological Seminary of America: N.Y. Faculty & Alumni List 1894-1933
Web Link: America's First Hebrew Teacher
Web Link: Revolutionary Broker
Web Link: Alumni List of Yeshiva College: Pre 1934
Web Link: Rabbi's of New York
Web Link: The First American-Born "Rabbi"
Web Link: Justice Carodozo, Sephardic Jew
Web Link: American Jewish Historical Society of New York
Web Link: Hebrew Union College-and alumni list 1883-1933.
Web Link: B'nai B'rith Lodge
Web Link: Chanukah, American Style
Web Link: The First American Bat Mitzvah
Web Link: Hanna Arendt
Web Link: Jewish Orphanages in the United States
Web Link: National Jewish Organizations: Civic Defense, Political & Cultural-Pre 1952
Web Link: Grandma's Kitchen Favorites Kosher Recipes
Web Link: Hank Greenberg: Baseball's First Jewish Superstar
Web Link: Gertrude "Tiby" Eisen: All American Professional Baseball League
Web Link: Jewish-American Hall of Fame-Jewish Museum in Cyberspace: Virtual Tour
Web Link: The Gomez Mill House Virtual Museum
Web Link: Agnes Keleti: Gymnastics (Most Successful Jewish Female Olympian in History)
Web Link: Lamb Shanks with Portobello Mushrooms and Dried Cranberries (Jewish)
Web Link: Potato and Walnut Fritters (Jewish)
Web Link: Emma Lazarus
Web Link: Mordecai Manuel Noah
Web Link: Annie Meyer-Writer
Web Link: American Red Cross International Services -Holocaust Tracing
Web Link: Samuel L. Shneiderman: June 15, 1906-October 8,  1996 
Web Link: Memories of My Saba by Anna Shneiderman
Web Link: Reminiscences of My Father by Ben Shneiderman
Web Link: Early History Of The Jews In New York 1654-1664
Special Mention: The Holocaust, arguably the worst disaster to hit Western civilization in the 20th century.
Web Link:

Holocaust 

Web Link:

The Holocaust History Project
Web Link:

The Jewish Virtual Library-The Holocaust
Web Link:

The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy
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The Holocaust of World War II
Web Link:

The German Jews during the Holocaust, 1939-1945
Special Mention: Witnesses and Survivors of The Holocaust: The Fortunoff Video Archives At Yale University
Web Link: Testimony Excerpt of Rabbi Baruch G: Describes forced labor in the Mlawa, Poland Ghetto
Web Link: Testimony Excerpt of Rachel G: She describes the Gestapo's search for her, the Jewish child.
Web Link: Testimony Excerpt of Edith P: A Survivor who describes Auschwitz
Web Link: Testimony Excerpt of Helen R.: She describes her experience in Auschwitz
Sub Section: Cubans and Dominicans
Web Link: Cuban Immigration to the United States
Web Link: Cuban Genealogy
Web Link: Pride of Cuba On Parade
Web Link: Cuban Chinese Restaurants
Web Link: Dominicans in Washington Heights
Web Link: Dominicans in Sunnyside and Woodside
Web Link: The Role of Spanish in the Cuban Communities of New York City
Web Link: Key Moments In The Hispanic History of New York
Web Link: History of Salsa
Web Link: Merengue Dance
Web Link: Mambo Dance History
Web Link: Spanish Dancing
Web Link: The Carlota Santana Spanish Dance Company
Web Link: Famous Hispanic Americans in the Humanities: 20th Century
Web Link: Aunt Julia's Paella (Spanish)
Web Link: Caldo Callego (Spanish Vegetable and Sausage)
Web Link: Picadillo Con Alcaparras (Picadillo With Capers) Spanish
Web Link: Paella a la Valenciana (Spanish)
Web Link: Cuban Recipes
Sub Section: Chinese
Web Link: Chinese Immigration to New York
Web Link: The History of New York's Chinatown
Web Link: Chinese Immigration Prior to 1900
Web Link: Chinese Immigration Presidental Papers 1789-1897
Sub Section: The French Huguenots
Article Name: The Huguenot Migration In Europe and America: Its Cause and Effect Part I
Article Name: The Huguenot Migration In Europe and America: Its Cause and Effect Part II
Article Name: The Huguenot Migration In Europe and America: Its Cause and Effect Part III
Web Link: French Huguenots In The Hudson Valley
Web Link: Experiences of The French Huguenots In America: The King's Refugees
Web Link: Huguenot Genealogy Resources
Web Link: Traits and Stories of the Huguenots
Section: Incidents Of Unfair Treatment To Immigrants In The United States: There have been dark moments in American History which traces back to intolerance and prejudices by the American people against immigrants of which still exist in these current days. Often stereotyped and discriminated against, many immigrants suffered verbal and physical abuse because they were "different."
Article Name: The Martin Koszta Affair Pre-1857
Article Name: Violent Demonstrations At Chief Rabbi Joseph's Funeral 1902
Web Link: Injustice to Italian Laborers: A Deplorable Lynching-Presidential Papers
Web Link: The Wartime Violations of Italian American Civil Liberties Act
Web Link: Japanese-American Internment
Web Link: The Evacuation of the Japanese After Pearl Harbor
Web Link: When Military Necessity Overrides Constitutional Guarantees: The Treatment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Jay M. Brown
Web Link: "The Chinese Must Go !!!"
Web Link: A Serious Riot In Williamsburg City 1853 And A Riot In Brooklyn City 1853: Racial Riot
Web Link: The Irish and Know Nothing's Riot 1854
Web Link: The Colored Orphan Asylum Riot 1863
Web Link: The Chinese Massacre of 1871: This racially motivated riot resulted from a growing anti-Chinese sentiment in California. A mob of 500 whites entered the Los Angeles Chinatown area which had a population of 200 Chinese living there, ransacking their homes and attacking them.
Web Link: The Leo Frank Case: Anti-Semitism
Section: Discriminatory Lawmaking and Restrictions on Immigrants          Posted 1/25/07
Web Link: People v. Hall, 1854
Web Link: Burlingame Treaty (1868)
Web Link: Page Law 1875
Web Link: The Chinese Exclusion Act; May 6, 1882
Web Link: The Scott Act of 1888
Web Link: Chae Chan Ping v. U.S., 130 U.S. 581 (1889): This case involved a resident non citizen who left the U.S. with a document allowing his return:  Congress voided the reentry documents while Chae Chan Ping was on the boat back to the U.S.
Web Link: The Geary Act of 1892: "This act extends the Chinese Exclusion Act for another ten years. All Chinese in the United States are required to carry registration certificates."
Web Link: Fong Yue Ting v. U.S., 149 U.S. 698 (1893)
Web Link: United States v. Wong Kim Ark. 169 U.S. 649 (1898)
Web Link: Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907: Japan affirmed her intention of stopping the emigration of laborers. This arrangement continued until superseded by the Immigration Act of 1924, excluding Japanese immigrants as �aliens ineligible to citizenship. Meantime, state laws, notably in California, had limited the right of the Japanese to own (1913) and then to lease (1920) farm lands; upheld by the Supreme Court, 1923.
Web Link: The Mann Act of 1910
Web Link: Bugajewitz v. Adams, 228 U.S. 585 (1913)
Web Link: Immigration Act of 1917: (also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) The Asiatic Barred Zone Act, passed over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, bars immigration by Asians.
Web Link: Immigration Act of 1924
Web Link: "Shut the Door": A Senator Speaks for Immigration Restriction
Web Link: Chang Chan v. Nagle, 268 U.S. 346 (1925)
Web Link: The Alien Registration Act of June 29, 1940 (also known as the Smith Act): Requires all aliens 14 and older to register with the Justice Department.
Web Link: Hines v. Davidowitz 1941: The Court voided a Pennsylvania law requiring the annual registration and fingerprinting of aliens but going beyond the subsequently enacted federal law to require acquisition of an alien identification card that had to be carried at all times and to be exhibited to any police officer upon demand and to other licensing officers upon applications for such things as drivers licenses.
Web Link: Displaced Persons Act of 1948

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