Why did Tillie Olsen’s parents leave the Russian Empire for the United States?

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Tillie Olsen’s parents, Ida Goldberg and Sam Lerner, were members of the Bund, a Jewish socialist organization that sought to end injustice and the brutal pogroms occurring in tsarist Russia.1

Both parents were active participants in the failed Russian Revolution of 1905. Following the revolution, Sam Lerner was arrested and faced the threat of execution or exile to Siberia. To escape this fate, he fled to England before immigrating to the United States in 1906. Ida Goldberg followed him to the United States in 1907.1