Abstract
Abstract On June 15, 1842, Abraham Kohn left his home village in Bavaria, southern Germany. He confessed to his diary, “I wept bitterly as I kissed my dear mother, perhaps for the last time, in Wittelshofen, pressing her hand and commending her to the protection of the Eternal, the Father of all widows and orphans.” Kohn was not alone. A childhood friend and his brother Moses accompanied him. They were just three of the thousands of young Jewish women and men who left their European homes in the mid-nineteenth century. Small groups of siblings and friends, mostly young unmarried people, abandoned the villages of southern and western Germany, Alsace, Bohemia, Hungary, Posen, Lithuania, and western Russia to seek opportunities in America.
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