IN Jewish History

Dispersing the Ghetto to Indiana


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Dr. Jack Glazier discusses his book "Dispersing the Ghetto" About how a Group of Wealthy German Jewish American Philanthropists sent Eastern.
European Jewish Immigrants westward to destinations such as Indiana, including small towns without Jewish communities in an attempt to assimilate them into American society and to find the Jewish Immigrants work from the 1910s to the early 1920s, please listen to this fascinating little known social experiment called the "Industrial Removal Office" or IRO.
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IN Jewish HistoryBy Indiana Jewish Historical Society

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