[ vi ] Abstracts The Young Ben - Gurion Discovers American Jewry Talia Gorodess What image did the young founding father of Israel carry in his mind when he thought about Jews of the Diaspora, and especially the growing community in the United States ? What did he encounter during his three years of exile in New York City ? How did contact with this prosperous, increasingly self - confident community—just beginning to assert itself in American society and politics—shape his broader ideas about Jewish life abroad ? And how did he sketch the relationship, both real and ideal, between Jewish communities on opposite sides of the Atlantic ? Ben - Gurion arrived in America in 1915, immediately after the most massive wave of Jewish immigration in recorded history . Between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, nearly two million Yiddish - speaking Ashkenazi Jews immigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States . This vast migration joined earlier, smaller but influential wa...
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