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''[[Jewish Genealogy Research|Jewish Genealogy ]] > Emigration and Immigration''<br> | |||
[[Image:Immigrants Behold the Statue of Liberty.jpg|thumb|right|320px|Emma Lazarus, a descendant of Portuguese Sephardic Jews, wrote the poem about the Statue of Liberty including these words, ". . . Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"]]Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigration) or coming into (immigration) a country. Because Jews emigrated at various time periods throughout the centuries and went to many different countries, the records that were kept vary from time period to time period and place to place. Records prior to the 18th century, if they exist at all, are generally less detailed. | [[Image:Immigrants Behold the Statue of Liberty.jpg|thumb|right|320px|Emma Lazarus, a descendant of Portuguese Sephardic Jews, wrote the poem about the Statue of Liberty including these words, ". . . Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"]]Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigration) or coming into (immigration) a country. Because Jews emigrated at various time periods throughout the centuries and went to many different countries, the records that were kept vary from time period to time period and place to place. Records prior to the 18th century, if they exist at all, are generally less detailed. | ||