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The immigrants perceived education as a ticket to social mobility and made every effort to send their children to the best schools. The members of the second generation integrated into the American economy, society and culture. By the 1930s, many Jews were college graduates and worked in the media and in legal and medical professions.
Although Yiddish had been the dominant language spoken by Jews a decade earlier, Jewish authors, actors, entertainers and composers blended in with the local culture and created a Jewish-American identity. The liberty they achieved in the United States, coupled with their huge motivation to become ordinary Americans, led them to positions of prominence in all walks of life.
