At the Edge of a Dream
Author: Lawrence J Epstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2007-08-17
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0787986224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A Lower East Side Tenement Museum book."
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Points of Passage
Author: Tobias Brinkmann
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1782380302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1880 and 1914 several million Eastern Europeans migrated West. Much is known about the immigration experience of Jews, Poles, Greeks, and others, notably in the United States. Yet, little is known about the paths of mass migration across “green borders” via European railway stations and ports to destinations in other continents. Ellis Island, literally a point of passage into America, has a much higher symbolic significance than the often inconspicuous departure stations, makeshift facilities for migrant masses at European railway stations and port cities, and former control posts along borders that were redrawn several times during the twentieth century. This volume focuses on the journeys of Jews from Eastern Europe through Germany, Britain, and Scandinavia between 1880 and 1914. The authors investigate various aspects of transmigration including medical controls, travel conditions, and the role of the steamship lines; and also review the rise of migration restrictions around the globe in the decades before 1914.
Unfinished People
Author: Ruth Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780393322408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the National Jewish Book Award, a seminal work of history on immigrant Jewish life in early twentieth-century New York.
A Time for Building
Author: Gerald Sorin
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1995-05
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780801851223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Time for Building describes the experiences of Jews who stayed in the large cities of the Northeast and Midwest as well as those who moved to smaller towns in the deep South and the West.
Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920
Author: Eli Lederhendler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-03-02
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 052151360X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDown and out in Eastern Europe -- Being an immigrant: ideal, ordeal, and opportunities -- Becoming an (ethnic) American: from class to ideology.
The American Jewish Experience
Author: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780841909342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoalfield Jews
Author: Deborah R. Weiner
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2023-02-03
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0252054946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe stories of vibrant eastern European Jewish communities in the Appalachian coalfields Coalfield Jews explores the intersection of two simultaneous historic events: central Appalachia’s transformative coal boom (1880s-1920), and the mass migration of eastern European Jews to America. Traveling to southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southwestern Virginia to investigate the coal boom’s opportunities, some Jewish immigrants found success as retailers and established numerous small but flourishing Jewish communities. Deborah R. Weiner’s Coalfield Jews provides the first extended study of Jews in Appalachia, exploring where they settled, how they made their place within a surprisingly receptive dominant culture, how they competed with coal company stores, interacted with their non-Jewish neighbors, and maintained a strong Jewish identity deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains. To tell this story, Weiner draws on a wide range of primary sources in social, cultural, religious, labor, economic, and regional history. She also includes moving personal statements, from oral histories as well as archival sources, to create a holistic portrayal of Jewish life that will challenge commonly held views of Appalachia as well as the American Jewish experience.
East European Jews in America, 1880-1920
Author: Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780415919241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Americanization of the Jews
Author: Robert Seltzer
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1995-02
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 0814780008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssesses the current state of American Jewish life, drawing on the research and thinking of scholars from a variety of disciplines and diverse points of view.
The Jewish Metropolis
Author: Daniel Soyer
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1644694913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Jewish Metropolis: New York City from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all time. It provides an introduction to many facets of that history, including the ways in which waves of immigration shaped New York’s Jewish community; Jewish cultural production in English, Yiddish, Ladino, and German; New York’s contribution to the development of American Judaism; Jewish interaction with other ethnic and religious groups; and Jewish participation in the politics and culture of the city as a whole. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, and includes a bibliography for further reading. The Jewish Metropolis captures the diversity of the Jewish experience in New York.
