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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Thank you, Irving Howe, for doing lots of research so that I could read about it. (  ) miriamparker | Mar 19, 2009 |  I'm giving this book only two stars because even though the title includes the phrase "The Journey of the East European Jews to America" there appears to be nothing about any place other than New York, and possibly some other U.S. cities. A great many Jews emigrated to Canada (particularly Montreal), Mexico, Argentina, etc. All "America".The first section, describing conditions in Eastern Europe, motivations for emigrating, and the journeys through Europe and across the Atlantic, is great. That's only about 50 pages out of a 700 page book. (  ) bnation | Jan 2, 2009 | One of the definitive books about Jewish life in eastern Europe, the causes of mass emigration, immigration to the US and life on New York's lower east side. (  ) rondoctor | Mar 29, 2008 | 3137. World of Our Fathers, by Irving Howe. (read Dec 17, 1998) This is a 1976 book I have long considered reading and finally did. Its jacket subtitle--not repeated on the title page--is "The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made." This is a great sociological study--I was surprised to find it so interesting, since a sociology course I took in college bored me to tears--and is about a world so different from my rural, Catholic background. Some parts of the book did not interest me--the Yiddish theater is no great interest of mine, for instance--but reading the book was an experience and most worthwhile. How many people in this country still speak Yiddish as a first language, does anyone know? How many still speak it? ( )1  Schmerguls | Dec 9, 2007 | the journey of the east european jews to america and the life they found and made justine | Oct 7, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic.
"Irving Howe has written a great book . . . a marvelous narrative."
—The New York Times Book Review
World of Our Fathers is a book for Jew and non-Jew, for immigrants and native-born Americans. It is a book for all people."—Chicago Tribune Book World
Winner of the National Book Award, 1976
World of Our Fathers traces the story 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 new paperback edition, which includes a new foreword by noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein.
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