German anti-Semitic statutes drove the Cohens to emigrate to America

Evidence

Bella’s parents, Robert’s grandparents, were first cousins. Both had been born—Bernhard Cohen in 1821, Rosalie Silverman five years later—in the small Bavarian village of Reckendorf to struggling merchant families, two of the tens of thousands of German-Jewish families made highly susceptible to “America fever” by laws that segregated them in crowded Judengassen and forced them to pay the humiliating “Jew toll” whenever they made a trip away from the ghetto. The statutes also prohibited Jews from owning any land except that on which their houses stood or from dealing in any goods that could not be carried with them. Bavaria, where German anti-Semitism was most virulent, had even set a limit on the number of Jewish marriages in an attempt to keep the Jewish population down. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 112

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth noting: Bavaria legally capped Jewish marriages as population control—an unusual detail I haven’t seen before.
• XREF: connects to: Czarist persecution and failed rebellion drove Eastern European Jews to mass emigration to America — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 131

Broader Connections

• Czarist persecution and failed rebellion drove Eastern European Jews to mass emigration to America #contradicts (0.75) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 131