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World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

Howe, Irving
Dickstein, Morris

Paperback

General World HistoryImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0814736858
ISBN13: 9780814736852
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Oct 1 2005
Pages: 768
Weight: 2.63
Height: 1.36 Width: 6.48 Depth: 9.18
Language: English

World of Our Fathers traces the journeys of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century.

This invaluable contribution to Jewish literature and culture is now back in print in a paperback edition, which includes a foreword by the noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein.

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