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For nonreligious and non-Zionist Jews in the late 1930s, the Soviet Union seemed to offer some relief from political instability, economic crisis, and social discrimination. True, it vigorously suppressed Judaism, Zionism, and Hebrew culture, but its Jews enjoyed unparalleled social and political mobility.
Jewish Life during the Interwar Period

Jews had been living in Poland since at least the Middle Ages. When Crusaders moved through Europe in the thirteenth century, Jewish refugees sought safety in Poland. The 1264 Statute of Kalisz created legal protections for Jews that were extended by King Kazimierz Wielki, or Casimir the Great, in the early fourteenth century. With these protections, Jewish communities in Poland began to thrive. Scholars suggest that by the sixteenth century, 80 percent of all Jews worldwide lived in Poland,
Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust

By 1850 there were about 17,000 Jews living in America. By 1880 there were about 270,000.

Most of these Jews moved to the New York area, which at this time had a Jewish population of 180,000. It would soon grow to 1.8 million.

In New York City, the Jewish area was the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The ones who made it quickly moved up to the Upper East Side. And these Jews did remarkably well in the New World. Some famous names of those who made it rich quick were:

Marcus Goldman, founder of Goldman, Sachs & Co . Henry, Emanuel and Mayer Lehman, founders of Lehman Brothers Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb, founders of the banking firm Kuhn, Loeb and Co. Jacob Schiff, Loeb’s son-in-law and a major American finacier Joseph Seligman, who started our as a peddler and who became one of the most important bankers in America.
Jewish Life in America