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Coverage: Netherlands Coverage: Netherlands Coverage: United States Coverage: United States Language: eng Subject: Ethnic relations Subject: HISTORY / Jewish Subject: Jews, Dutch--United States--History Subject: Jews--History Subject: Jews--Netherlands--History Date: 1994 Collection: Wayne Open Book Collection-
The forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American diaspora
Between 1800 and 1880 approximately 6500 Dutch Jews immigrated to the United States to join the hundreds who had come during the colonial era. Although they numbered less than one-tenth of all Dutch immigrants and were a mere fraction of all Jews in America, the Dutch Jews helped build American Jewry and did so with a nationalistic flair. Like the other Dutch immigrant group, the Jews demonstrated the salience of national identity and the strong forces of ethnic, religious, and cultural instit…