This week I have been studying about the mass immigration to the United States of Germans in the 1830s-1840s. Specifically I have been looking at Jewish migrants.
So while looking at this I came across a very interesting set of figures.
1.5 million Irish moved to America in those years.
1.5 million Germans moved in that same time period.
The numbers of Jews during that period went from 3,000 at the end of the Revolutionary War to 50,000 in 1842 and to around 150,000 by 1857.
Now compare that to the Mormon population of Utah in that period.
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