In Russia, Stalin did not make life easy for the Jews and their desire to worship freely and openly. In 1924 Jewish emigration was banned. The government in Poland placed restrictions on the Jews and officially prevented them from Torah observance. In 1925 the fourth aliyah began and within the next three years 60,000 Polish Jews left for Eretz Israel. In Germany, subsequent to the defeat of the Germans during World War I, Jews were made the scapegoats for the country's ills. The third such aliyah was in 1932 when 225,000 Jews emigrated from Europe for various Jewish settlements through 1939. Many could sense what was coming, as they left to escape the escalation of Nazism in Europe. To make matters worse, at various times, especially at the time the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed in the United States, immigration was restricted, so that those who wished to escape the rising sentiment of anti-Semitism and immigrate to the United States, could not do so....next ►►