American Immigration

1890-1930

Mediterranean Nations: Italy and Greece

http://www.italyemb.orghttp://www.greekembassy.org

Mediterranean

Religion: Roman Catholic and Eastern OrthodoxArea of settlement: Northeastern Cities (New York, Boston, Detroit)

Mediterranean

Languages

Italian Greek

Slavic / Eastern Europeans

Nations: Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary …

http://www.russianembassy.org/

http://www.czech.cz/washington/http://www.hungaryemb.orghttp://www.polishworld.com/

polemb/

Slavic / Eastern Europeans

Religion: Eastern Orthodox and Roman CatholicArea of settlement: Northeastern Cities and Midwest (Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit…)

Slavic / Eastern Europeans

Language: Slavic with Cyrillic Alphabet

Hungarian

CzechRussian

Polish

Jewish Nations: Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland), originally Israel.

http://www.israelemb.org/ Religion:

Judaism

Jewish

Area of settlement: Northeastern Cities (New York)

Language: Yiddish (Hebrew and German mixed)

Yiddish

Asian Nations: China and Japan

Asian Religion: Buddhism, Shinto, …Area of settlement: Northeastern Cities and West Coast (San Francisco)

AsianLanguage: Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese …

(pictographic characters for words)

Cantonese