"Dave" wrote
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:31:33 -0500, "Vito" said:

"Comfortable" is relative. Many Euros stayed home rather than come to
America. These places seemed better than the alternative until Nazis
and
Commies came along.

Large numbers were leaving Eastern Europe long before anybody ever
heard of
Hitler. My wife still harbors a great distrust of Poland, Russia and
the
Ukraine based on what she heard from her parents, aunts and uncles, all
of
whom left before the 30s.


To go to Palistine? I thot most, just like the Irish and other non-Jewish
Euros looking for a better life, came here.

Do you have a comprehension problem, or are you deliberately misreading?
The
reason we include a quote is to indicate what we're replying to. You said
many Euros stayed home instead of coming to America because these places
seemed a better place until the Nazis and the Commies came along. I
replied
that many thought Eastern Europe was not a better place and left for
America
long before the Nazis and the Commies came along. Nothing about Palestine
in
that.


My apalogies. The theme of the thread has been Jewish migration to
Palisitine. There were indeed many immigrants to the USA before Hitler ...
Meyer Lanski, the Cohen gang ...(c: