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The Galveston Moment
I ncreased antisemitism in Czarist Russia, starting in the early 1880s, led to a tidal wave of Jewish immigration to the United States. Jewish leadership in America strongly supported open immigration as a way to escape the oppression in Europe.But Congress resisted because crowded conditions and rampant poverty in U.S. Jewish neighborhoods were already well documented.The Galveston Movement was…