Found this which I thought was really interesting.
An Abbreviated Timeline of Jewish Immigration to the United States
1654-1820 First wave of Jewish immigration to the United States. Fewer than 15,000 Jews fleeing religious intolerance travel here from Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Bordeaux, Jamaica, England, Curacoa, Holland and Poland. They found the first Jewish communities in the United States in NYC, Newport Rhode Island, Charleston, Savannah, and Philadelphia.
1820-1880 Second Wave of Jewish emigrants come from Germany brings 250,000 German Jews come to the United states.
1880 - 1920's A third wave of Jewish immigration follow son the heels of the Turkish Revolution and the collapse of the Ottoman empire. Sephardi Jews from the Balkans and Middle East begin to immigrate to the United States. They come from Turkey, Greece, and the lands that formed Yugoslavia.
1911-1920 Biggest wave of Syrian Jewish immigrants to the United States.
1881–1924 Waves of pogroms (anti-Jewish riots), poverty, and mandatory
conscription in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in Russia and Eastern Europe cause 2,000,000 Jews to emigrate to the United States
1914 The outbreak of World War I brings an influx of Jews from Eastern Europe to the US, including 138,051 in 1914 alone.
1917 Restrictions on immigration, including a literacy test, were instated that severely restricted the entry of Jews to the United States.
November 7th, 1919 On the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution, over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists were arrested in what became known as the Palmer Raids. Palmer and Hoover found no evidence of a proposed revolution but large number of these suspects were held without trial for a long time. The vast majority were eventually released but 248 other people were deported to Russia. This included a large number of Jews including Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman and Mollie Steimer.
1921-1924 The National Origins Quota legislation passes, restricting the number of immigrants allowed into America to no more than two percent of the number of each nationality residing in the U.S. in 1890. Due to the National Origins Quota of 1924 few Eastern European refugees were allowed into the US during World War II.
1930's Jews of Yemen granted visa's to the United States.
1939 About 70,000 Sephardi Jews are now living in the United States, a majority of whom live in New York City.
1924–44 100,000 refugees fleeing Hitler, Pre-Holocaust arrive in the United States.
1945–60 250,000 Holocaust survivors arrive.
1956-1967 Egyptian and Syrian Jews come to the United States following the Suez crisis and other wars in the region. Israeli emigrants (Yordim) begin arriving in the United. Though they have migrated from the pre-statehood period to the present, numbers increase. Their communities include Israelis of (amongst others) Syrian, Lebanese, Yemenite, and Adenic descent.
1956 Hungarian Jews, fleeing the Soviet invasion of Hungary, come to the United States.
1959 Jews come to the US during the Cuban Revolution
1960's A wave of Jews from Algeria, Libya and Morocco come to the United States from France.
1968 Prague Spring brings Czechoslovakian Jews to the United States.
1970's Polish pogroms bring another wave of Jewish immigrants.
1972 there are at least 24,000 Jews of Syrian descent in NYC.
1979 The overthrow of the Shah precipitates a steady flow of Jews from Iran.
1979 First peak wave of Jews from the USSR.
1985-1990 over 140,000 Jews from former Soviet countries come to the US
1989 15-20 thousand Bukharin Jews from Central Asia emigrate to the United States from the former Soviet Union
Today Up to 50,000 Jews per year continue to emigrate to the United States.
Compiled by Jenny Romaine at Jews for Racial & Economic Justice.
http://www.jfrej.org/Jewish.Immigration.Timeline.html 
