Mass immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe to the United States ( about 2 . 5 million in the period 1870 - 1924 ) created the numerical domination of Jews of Eastern European origin among the Jewish population of America , resulting in a relative decline in the number of Jews of Sephardic and Germanic origin . The difficulties of adaptation of the Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the American reality have merited extensive discussion . The immigrants faced a social and cultural reality , the principles of which were entirely foreign to them . One of the topics discussed in the historiography of immigration is how the immigrants and their children shaped their American identity and to what extent they preserved elements of their original culture . This book deals with the role and significance of the printed word and reading in the lives of East European immigrants in the United States between the years 1890 and 1940 . As well as clarifying the function of the printed word and re...
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