Rabbi Avraham Kelman

Title: Rav HaKolel, A Biography Of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef

By Rabbi Avraham Kelman

In the 1880s, a substantial immigration of Jews poured into New York from all parts of Europe, Russia, and Galicia. They were eager to escape the hard life of poverty and lack of peace back home, but the reality in America was not as they had expected it to be. It was hard to find work; it was a struggle for mere existence.