During the last decades of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century , the United States saw an immigration boom primarily of Southern and Eastern Europeans , among them approximately 650,000-700,000 ethnic Hungarian speakers . Unlike the educated classes who formed the core of the 1849 wave , the second Hungarian wave was mostly poor and uneducated immigrants seeking a better life in America . An increase of immigration from Hungary was also observed after World War II and The Holocaust , a significant percentage of whom were Jewish
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