Those from the east were Eastern Orthodox and from the west Roman Catholics. For the most part. they were peasants not long from serfdom. Fortunately for us. these immigrants did not come to the South but furnished cheap labor for the coal and iron industries. Our third largest quota of undesirable immigrants came from Russia. a total of 3.341.991. Of those from Russia. many were JewsRussia after the dismemberment of Poland having the largest Jewish population of any nation in the world. Now the United States has that distinction. as we have received Jews from nearly every country. until today of the 16.000.000 Jews in the world. nearly onethird of them are in the United States. and they constitute 31/2 percent of our entire population.
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