Women in the Great Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe to America (1880-1920)
Author : Céline Ouziel
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Céline Ouziel
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415919227
Author : Barbara A. Schreier
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Health & Fitness
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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Chicago Historical Society, Mar. 6, 1994-Jan. 2, 1995; Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York City, Mar. 15-July 16, 1995; National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, Sept. 10-Dec. 31, 1995.
Author : Eli Lederhendler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052151360X
Down and out in Eastern Europe -- Being an immigrant: ideal, ordeal, and opportunities -- Becoming an (ethnic) American: from class to ideology.
Author : Gerald Sorin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 1995-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801851223
A 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.
Author : Eileen Chotiner
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Europe, Eastern
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I began this project with an interest in Jewish immigrant women's adjustment to American life. I first examined general patterns of immigration to the United States in the nineteenth century, to determine how Jewish immigration fit into the patterns and specifically, the. role of Jewish women in Jewish immigration. I also sought to discover how Jews differed from other immigrant groups, and how these differences affected the establishment of Jewish communities in America. Immigration to the United States in the nineteenth century falls into two categories : from approximately 1840 to 1880, immigrants came mostly from northern, western and central Europe; after 1880, eastern Europe was the source of what was called the "new immigration." Immigration began to rise significantly in the 1830s; the rate of immigration increased throughout the nineteenth century, due to the expansion of European population and the dislocations brought on by economic modernization, and the demand for manual labor which U.S. industrialization created. Before 1880, immigration from northwestern Europe- Ireland, Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands- counted for two-thirds of total immigration; by 1880, the source of immigration had shifted to the southern and eastern countries- Italy, Russia, Poland, Austria-Hungary, and the Balkans. The shift in the source of immigration most likely occurred because economic development, accompanied by population growth, began in the northwest and spread across Europe. Localized catastrophic events- crop failure, famine, pogroms- often set off migration from specific countries. Although immigration has been seen as a movement of dislocated peasants, about half of the immigrants reporting occupations upon arrival in America between 1851 and 1917 came under the category of unskilled general labor and domestic service. These workers sought economic betterment; expanding American business and industry offered them opportunities, and until the 1890s, encouraged immigration to fill the many jobs available. Immigrants tended to settle in cities, attracted by the availability of jobs which urban and industrial expansion produced; moreover, cities corresponded to major ports of arrival from abroad.
Author : Jocelyn Cohen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2008-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814716954
In 1942, YIVO held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme “Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America.” Chosen from over two hundred entries, and translated from Yiddish, the nine life stories in My Future Is in America provide a compelling portrait of American Jewish life in the immigrant generation at the turn of the twentieth century. The writers arrived in America in every decade from the 1890s to the 1920s. They include manual workers, shopkeepers, housewives, communal activists, and professionals who came from all parts of Eastern Europe and ushered in a new era in American Jewish history. In their own words, the immigrant writers convey the complexities of the transition between the Old and New Worlds. An Introduction places the writings in historical and literary context, and annotations explain historical and cultural allusions made by the writers. This unique volume introduces readers to the complex world of Yiddish-speaking immigrants while at the same time elucidating important themes and topics of interest to those in immigration studies, ethnic studies, labor history, and literary studies. Published in conjunction with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Author : Ruth Gay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393322408
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, a seminal work of history on immigrant Jewish life in early twentieth-century New York.
Author : Annie Polland
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 147981105X
Part 2 of a three part series, City of promises : a history of the Jews of New York, Deborah Dash Moore, general editor.
Author : Lawrence J Epstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2007-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0787986224
"A Lower East Side Tenement Museum book."