Established German Jews funded settlement houses to aid new Eastern European immigrants
Evidence
To aid these immigrants, the Lower East Side settlement houses sprang up, funded and staffed largely by New York’s established German-Jewish community. And Bella Moses, newly returned to New York, soon became an enthusiastic funder and staffer. She worked first at the famous Henry Street Settlement, but soon transferred her allegiance to Madison House, one of the smallest and newest of the settlement houses and therefore one in which she could play a more prominent role. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 132
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- XREF: connects to: German-Jewish philanthropy to immigrant slum dwellers was laced through with patronizing contempt