East European Jewish Children’s Health Conditions on the Lower East Side, New York City, 1890-1914

About the scholar: Yibing Du grew up in China and attended The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China in Beijing, China

The Research:

From 1890 to 1914, more than 2,000,000 East European Jews emigrated to America. Many of them settled in New York City’s Lower East Side, one of the most crowded and least sanitary areas of the city. Yet Jewish children had a consistently lower mortality rate than most other groups, including American-born citizens. Yibing analyzes the commonly proposed reasons for this surprising statistic—good sanitary habits, low alcoholism, and a strong philanthropic tradition—and concludes that philanthropic activity that provided the community’s own medical resources countered the harmful effects of an anti-Semitism that fostered neglect of the immigrants’ needs.

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