The push and pull definitions are as follows:

• Push factors are the reasons why people left their homes, such as persecution, fear, natural disasters, poverty and unemployment
• Pull factors are the reasons why people moved to the United States of America in search of freedom, safety, stability and new opportunities

Push and Pull factors of Jewish Migration to America for kids: Political, Economic, Social & Environmental Reasons
The push and pull factors of Jewish Migration are dictated by economic, political, environmental and social reasons. Discover specific events in the history of Russia that prompted Jewish people to leave their homes to start a new life in America. 

Push and Pull factors of Jewish Migration for kids: Examples of Jewish Migration Chart
The following chart provides facts and information about some specific examples of Push and Pull factors of Jewish Migration to America.

Examples of Push and Pull factors of Jewish Migration to America

List and Examples of Push Factors

Political Factor: The first Jewish settlers to America fled the Spanish Inquisition, that demanded conversion to Catholicism

Economic Factor: Holland (practically the only Jewish refuge in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries) extended to her dominions in the New World claiming areas that would become known as New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Connecticut. Influential Jewish stockholders of the Dutch West India Company sponsored Jewish colonists.

Political Factor: 75% of all Jews lived in Poland by the middle of the 1700's and their. The partitions of Poland in 1795 and the destruction of Poland as a sovereign state by the anti-semitic Russian Empire led to religious persecution of Jews due to Christian reformation movements.

Environmental Factors: The Russian Empire was devastated by terrible Cholera epidemics during the 1800's and early 1900's due to a lack of water and sewage treatment systems. Millions of people, including many Jews, died terrible deaths and violent protests led to numerous riots

Political Factor: Jewish communities were persecuted and many died in the  'Pogroms' which was the name of violent riots aimed at the persecution and massacre of Jews

Environmental Factor: The Famine of 1891-1892 was caused by severe weather conditions that ruined the grain crops. Jews were literally starving to death.

Political Factor: The Russian Empire was a participant in WW1 (1914-1918) and the violence and conflict was worsened by the Revolution led by Lenin and the Bolsheviks and the Civil war (1918-1922)

Political Factor: The outbreak of World War Two (1939 - 1945) led to terrible conditions for Jews in Europe, with the rise of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust which destroyed most of the European Jewish community by 1945.

List and Examples of Pull Factors

Jewish settlers sought safety and new opportunities in the New World.

Jewish colonists established trading posts and settlements which opened up opportunities for lucrative trade.

Jewish Immigrants in Poland fled to America to escape religious persecution and seek safety and new opportunities in America.

People wanted to escape the devastation of disease and poverty and violence of the riots and the aggressive policy of the government and enjoy the freedom offered in America.

Jewish Jews chose to emigrate to find stability and escape from political and religious persecution

To find more fertile land to escape hunger and disease and find safety in a more settled climate and environment.

Many Jewish intellectuals and business owners, escaped the Bolsheviks and the Communists by fleeing to safety of America and political freedom.

A small number of Jewish people managed to escape the Holocaust to the safety of America

Push Pull factors of Jewish Migration for kids: Pull Push factors of Russia
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Push and Pull factors of Jewish Migration: Political Examples of of Push and Pull factors in Russia
Find examples of Political Push and Pull factors such as significant historical events in Jewish history such as wars, revolutions such as the destruction of Poland political autocracy and violent conflicts such as the Cholera Riots and the Pogroms which prompted the migration of Jewish people to escape political or religious persecution.

Push and Pull factors of Jewish Migration: Environmental Examples of Push and Pull factors in Russia
Find examples of Environmental Push and Pull factors relating to any devastating natural disasters that have hit Russia such as famines, crop failure and diseases such as cholera and typhus that led Jewish people to seek safety in a more settled climate and environment.

Push and Pull factors of Jewish Migration: Social Examples of Push and Pull factors in Russia
Social Push and Pull factors that prompted migration from Russia such as lack of education, medical facilities and an oppressive regime that led Jewish people to consider emigration in order to achieve a better standard of living and improve educational opportunities and health facilities.

Push and Pull factors of Jewish Migration: Economic Examples of of Push and Pull factors in Russia
Find examples of Economic Push and Pull factors that prompted immigration from Europe such as poverty and high levels of unemployment that led Jewish people to consider emigration in order to achieve a better standard of living and improve employment opportunities