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“To understand something of the current immigration debate, it might help to look at New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1900s through the eyes of Henry Adams, the great-grandson of one president, grandson of another, ambassador to Britain and, toward the end of his life, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography. All those Jews sickened him.

“God tried drowning out the world once,” he wrote in a 1906 letter, “but it did no kind of good, and there are said to be 450,000 Jews now doing Kosher in New York alone. God himself owned failure.”"

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