The Role Of Jewish Immigrants In The 20th Century

In the earlier days, German Jewish immigrants are more political conservative. However in the early 1880s, the wave of Eastern European Jews in general were more liberal or left wing and became the political majority. These Eastern European Jewish then migrated to America and with the exposure in the socialist, anarchist and communist movements as well as the Labor Bund experiences. By the 20th century, many of the Jewish were already holding the leadership positions in the American labor movement. Jewish founded the unions that played an important role in left wings politics and after 1936, in the Democratic Party politics. And have been aligning with the Democratic Party ever since then, throughout most of the 20th century. However by the end of 20th century and early 21st century, initiation were made by the Republicans to woo over the American Jews from Democratic Party.
Jews in Europe and the Americas have generally sided with the political left, and also played an important role in the creation of the labor movement as well as socialism over the past century.
As for the Diaspora Jews, they have always been conservative when it comes to the political aspect. Even though they are conservative, they have the tendency of consistently supporting pluralism compare to many other elements of the political right. The move from the right to the left wing is very much caused by the trend away from religious observance. Their religiously observant remain highly conservative, on the other hand those who are of non-observant majority are highly liberal as Jewish religion's emphasis fully upon following a strict set of laws and
customs.