| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - [Page 257] With the rise in the status of the merchants and the professional intelligence of the Lithuanian people, it became difficult for the Jews in the city or the shtetls to earn their living in trade or academic professions, and young Jews had no option but to look for an escape through aliya to Eretz Yisrael or through immigration, mainly to the United States and South Africa.[1]
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