Event · Migration
Jacob Sapirstein's Migration to America
The Joint Distribution Committee brought Jacob Sapirstein to America in 1905.
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... The Joint Distribution Committee brought him to
America. He arrived in Boston in 1905 and then went
to Chicago, where HIAS secured a job for him as an
apprentice tailor at Hart, Schaffner & Marx. He did not
like this work and contacted an uncle in Cleveland who
owned a postcard store in the old Hollenden Hotel. ...Connected nodes