Jewish Immigrants

Question 1

What are Pograms ?

Answer 1

Organised massacre of a particular ethnic group

Question 2

What are Sweated trades

Answer 2

Trades with low wages + long hours - underpaid skilled workers wages

Question 3

Why was there an increased number of Jewish Immigrants 1880-1914?

Answer 3

• religious & economic persecution- Russia and Poland

Question 4

What Industries did Jewish workers work in?

Would Scots employ them ?

Answer 4

-peddling + hawking ( selling door to door )
- bakeries
- jewellers
- alterations
- sweated trades

( some cots refused to employ)

Question 5

What was the Housing + Areas that Jewish congregated like?

Answer 5

• Gorbals ( Glasgow )
• Cheap homes + large communities - spoke Yiddish
• Built Synagogues

Question 6

What was the Experience of Jewish Immigrants like?

Answer 6

• good - protected religion and language due to big community of Jewish
• more positive attitude from Scots as Jews brought own jobs ( not threatening Scots
• anti-semitism
• bullied at school + Scots refused to employ Jews

Question 7

What was the reaction of the Scots to Jewish Immigrants?

Answer 7

• blamed for lower wages
• spread disease
• racial tension
• positive - provided Jews with economic opportunities + schooling
• seen as well organised + poor - tolerated

Question 8

What was the identity and Assimilation of Jewish Immigrants like?

Answer 8

• separate identity: large Jewish community, Gorbals ( nearly all Jewish shops and firms ), synagogues, self sufficient
• integrated: friends (schools)+ romance (marriage changed names), Yiddish language + newspapers ideas out , supported Scottish football teams