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

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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

Coming to America: emigration, early life in USA, Yiddish, dispersion

Thank you, Irving Howe, for doing lots of research so that I could read about it. ( )

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. ( )