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Baltimore welterweight Benny Goldstein served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and later opened a radio repair business.
(File Photo)
Boxing has always offered opportunities for young men (and more recently, women) from poor or working-class backgrounds to rise above their stations. In the ’20s and ’30s, that meant members of recently arrived immigrant groups, particularly Italians and Jews.
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Cities like New York teemed with immigrants from other lands, as evidenced in this 1898 photo taken at Norfolk and Hester streets in Manhattan.
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Chain migration describes the historical process by which most migrations occur. One or two pioneers move to an area of likely settlement. If they find opportunity, they write home and tell their relatives and friends.
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Located at 8100 Stevenson Rd., Chizuk Amuno was founded in 1871 in East Baltimore. (Photo by Solomon Swerling, Jmore).
It was a defining moment for the congregation, but just as important was the aftershock that resounded through the city’s Jewish community.
Read MoreBaltimore was a border city in a border state. Located in a slave-owning state just below the Mason-Dixon Line, Baltimore’s citizens were especially divided. While some Jews enthusiastically adopted a Union or Confederate stance, most strove to find middle ground.
Read MoreThe removal of “the sefer Torahs, the books of the Talmud … the men carrying their tallis and tefillin bags and the women their candlesticks [was] a sight long to be remembered.”
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