Mar 16, 2008
Jews found refuge, opportunity here
“Jews have been here for quite a long time”
After years of death and persecution in European countries, Jewish immigrants to the United States were used to keeping a low profile, which might explain why they didn't draw a lot of attention in the press or history books.
But in his book about St. Louis area Jews, 'Zion in the Valley,' university professor Walter Ehrlich wrote that St. Louis had a large Jewish population as early as the mid-1800s and it was only natural that some of those people would make their way across the river to the metro-east. Read more
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