In this article, author Laura Wolff Scanlan discusses the role of Jewish-American settlers in shaping the American West. She discusses the opportunities that Jewish settlers had in the West and their impact on Western history.
<p><span class="deck">A walk through the old Jewish Lower East Side of New York City recalls the era when that battered, close-packed quarter was a high-pressure machine for the manufacture of Americans.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">On Manhattan’s Lower East Side, you can visit a haunting re-creation of a life that was, at once, harder and better than we remember.</span></p>
