(04-14-2024, 09:36 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Started on Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation Of Israel. She is Israel's first Prime Minister. So far it's about her years leading up to becoming PM. 

What's been fascinating is learning how different the German and other European Jews were from the Russian Jews in that day. The German Jewish immigrants in America thought the Russian Jews who came here were most definitely less than. There has always been a spotlight on German Jews in WW2 and less so on the Polish. Rarely heard about Russian Jews so it never occurred to me how different they were and how differently they were treated when coming here. 

Meir and her family were Russian Jews who immigrated to the US when she was a kid and moved to Palestine in her 20s with her husband and their two children. Evidently she was a Zionist and was very interested in Israel being established as a country. 

Another thing that was interesting is how immigrants were.....distributed to other parts of the country with NYC and the East Coast becoming crowded. So what's happening now with immigrants being bussed to other states is nothing new but 2024 is very different than the 1940s.

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(04-14-2024, 09:17 PM)RicoTx Wrote: And where did you get your medical degree?

I have ADD and Adderall is the only reason I can concentrate on reading anything. Or concentrate on anything, period.

My dad's family were/are Russian Jews.  None of the ones who are alive today have any stories of German Jews discriminating against them.  They all spoke Yiddish whether they came from areas controlled by Russia or by Germany.  The Russian Jews got to the US later, and had spent generations living in all-Jewish villages.  The German Jews came to the US earlier, and usually had lived in larger cities frequently mixing with other groups, so coming to NYC was more of a culture shock for the Russian ones and less so for the German ones.  But there wasn't hostility between the two groups, at least not the way my family tells it.

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