History GCSE
Eastern European Jewish settlement and experience
What Eastern European Jewish settlement and experience means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Arriving mainly from the 1880s, these immigrants settled largely in London's East End and other cities, worked in tailoring and other trades, and faced hostility as well as building community institutions.
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