A Time for Building
The Third Migration, 1880-1920
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1992]
Format: Book
Description: xvii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
"In this volume, [the author] focuses on how the eastern European Jewish migration, which set the tone for American Jewry in the final decades of the nineteenth century, confronted the issue of accommodation and group survival. A distinctive political and general culture, which amalgamated traditional Jewish and new American values, was established by the immigrant generation. That Yiddish-speaking transitional culture, which prevailed in the ethnic enclaves of the cities, was considerably modified once Jews left these core communities and after World War I, the cultural energy of the immigrant generation waned"--Series editor's foreword
Series: Jewish people in America ; v. 3.
Contents:
ch. 1. Sources of the Eastern European migration -- ch. 2. The immigration experience -- ch. 3. New York as the promised city -- ch. 4. Prophets, proletarians, and progressives -- ch. 5. Mobility and community beyond New York -- ch. 6. Varieties of religious belief and behavior -- ch. 7. Participation in the American political system -- ch. 8. Cultural pluralism and Zionism.
Subjects:
Jews -- United States -- History.
Jews, East European -- United States -- History.
Immigrants -- United States -- History.
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Jews -- United States -- History.
Jews, East European -- United States -- History.
Immigrants -- United States -- History.
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
ISBN:
0801843456
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SSHC HISTORY North Am. US Sor | Main (Downtown) | Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-287) and index.