The Road to Everlasting Dreams

From The Peopling of NYC

The Eastern European Jews at the turn of the century soon came to learn that economic mobility was equivalent to residential mobility. The Lower East Side was a temporary community. After 1910, the population was moving. There was a decline of Yiddish newspapers and theater. Russian Jews started hiring Russian-Jewish immigrants. The garment industry became less popular. Today, symbolic identity and occasional visits to synagogues is extremely common. Some, however, have preserved their Jewish traditions retaining the religous practices of their grandparents.