The east side of New York. Into which most of the newcomers found their wayat least for the first few years of their residence in the United Stateswas undergoing a racial transformation at about this time. and with it a transformation of ideals and aspirations. It was rapidly becoming the Ghetto. famous. on the one hand. for the dreamers. the Idealists. the intellectuals who were thrown together in an alien land. and. on the other hand. for the exploitation to which the greed of the earlier immigrant exposed the newcomer in the sweatshops which marked the beginning of the cloak and suit industry. Compelled to work 12 and 14 hours a day in the dingy rooms of the huge. black tenement houses. into which light and air penetrated with great difficulty. these intellectuals and dreamers would spend their evenings seeking mental satisfaction and relaxation at the various educational and debating clubs that were then being formed. They discussed and debated the theories of the worlds philosophers and attempted to apply to the problems they discussed the views that they had acquired. very often secretly. in the land of the Czar. from which most of them came.
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