Why didn't Bnei Yisrael go back after the Famine?

Rabbi Dr. Sholom Gold zt"l, born in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY, attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in NY, Ner Israel in Baltimore, and Yeshivot Ponevezh and Hevron in Israel. He received semicha from Chief Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Halevi Herzog and from HaRav Yaacov Yitzchok Halevi Ruderman. Rabbi Gold was in the vanguard of building communit...