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Pervading the history of Poland, however, was the Roman Catholic Church, which persecuted Jews whenever and wherever it could.
Bernard D. Weinryb cites several occurrences of Polish Jewish immigration to the United States from 1820-1880. In Utica, N. Y., we find Jews from Kalisz who settled before 1850; and the first Jews from Bialystok, came to America in the 1840's. Jew from Posen (near Prussia) also moved to Chicago in the 1840’s. In Rochester, N. Y. we hear of Polish Jews in 1855. Dr. Max Lilienthal, German Rabbi and Superintendent of Russia’s abortive Jewish-Russian school system, writes that in Cincinnati where he presided, the earlier Jews came mainly from Bavaria, "in the last years more have come from Russia and Poland."
Although Russia abolished serfdom (37% of Russia’s population) in 1861. This action actually hurt the Jews who were now competitors in the economic marketplace. And Polish insurrection of 1863 against Russia brought from both sides against the Jews. The Russian forces confiscated Jewish property. For the Polish noblemen who led the resurrection, Russia confiscated their lands and other property. Some of them were deported to Siberia. And some, now without means, became economic competitors to the

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