Following the declaration of the state, a flood of Jewish migrants and refugees entered Israel from the Arab world and the Muslim world in general.
This planned to end Jewish immigration by 1944 and to allow no more than 75,000 further Jewish migrants.
In the years that followed, Jewish migrants from the then Dutch controlled areas of modern-day Brazil sought safe passage to Barbados.
When purchasing land, Jewish migrants were concerned with the displacement of fellahin, agricultural laborers who cultivated the land.
His parents were Jewish migrants from Germany who had changed their name from Cohen.
Other Jewish migrants from Marijampolė settled in Manchester, England.
Furthermore, by the estimate of the Jewish community, there may be as many as 15,000 descendants of Jewish migrants from Poland living in Mexico.
"Unassimilability" was a criticism made of the Jews and thus its use as a criterion was seen as a pretext for excluding Jewish migrants.
However, the first congregation of Jews had began in 1880 when a tiny group of Jewish migrants formed together.
Both brothers were very religious; twice daily the business came to a standstill when they and their staff, consisting of fellow Jewish migrants, stopped for morning and afternoon prayers.