New Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe faced which of the following different challenge(s) to adapting to life in America more than any of their northern and Western Europe “old immigrant” counterparts?
a. They brought a highly traditional Orthodox form of religion unfamiliar to most Americans.
b. Many were illiterate even in their native tongues.
c. Their village background was the antithesis of life in modern urban America. d.
They were materially very poor.
e. all of these choices.
ANS: A
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