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World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and… (1976)

by Irving Howe

Other authors: Kenneth Libo (Assistance)

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  cavlibrary | Oct 28, 2012 |
NO OF PAGES: 713 SUB CAT I: European Jews SUB CAT II: American Jews SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: This book tells the story of those east European Jews who, for several decades starting in the 1880's, undertook a massive migration to the United States. There were two million of them, and they settled mostly in the large American cities.NOTES: SUBTITLE: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made
  BeitHallel | Feb 18, 2011 |
Coming to America: emigration, early life in USA, Yiddish, dispersion
  Folkshul | Jan 15, 2011 |
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 |
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0151463530, Hardcover)

It was a great adventure--the emigration in the 1880s of two million Jews from East Europe to the United States. Many settled in New York, where they attempted to maintain their own Yiddish culture even while making their way into American society. Howe tells the story of these people--from sweatshop to Hollywood studio, from yeshiva to university, every aspect of Jewish life is vividly depicted.

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