Past Event
Sunday, March 9, 2014, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Why Did our Ancestors Leave a Nice Place Like the Pale?
4126 Executive Drive, San Diego, 92037
Cost: Free
In 1880, 80% of the European Jewish population lived in Poland and the Pale of Jewish Settlement in western Russia. We all know of the pogroms (organized violence) and mass exodus to points west over the next generation.
Hal Bookbinder will describe the 120 years of the Pale, from its formation in the late 18th Century to its dissolution during the First World War. This history will provide some context to those of Jewish ancestry who lived in the Pale, and their decision to leave everything they had known to make new lives the West.