Jewish Americans (Coming to America) - Hardcover
They escaped from oppression and poverty in Russia, Poland, Germany, and many other parts of Europe, and settled mainly in America’s large cities. With Jewish immigration to America came their rich family and religious traditions, and their abiding respect for the arts and sciences, inspiring many among them to great achievement in these fields. Biographical sketches include Albert Einstein, the Guggenheim family, Isaac Stern, Saul Bellow, and others.
This important new series documents and dramatizes the immigration experience of untold numbers of men, women, and children who arrived in America from the four corners of the world. As they assimilated into American society, they enriched the nation’s character and experience. Many of America’s immigrants passed through the Ellis Island Immigration Center in New York Harbor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What were the initial hopes and fears of these new arrivals? Where did they first settle, and what kinds of work did they find? Which elements from their various cultures have since blended into the national scene and helped reshape what has become modern America? The first titles in this dramatic series bring alive the experiences of four important ethnic groups, with contemporary photos and first-person accounts of their dramatic, life-changing experiences. Readers glimpse each group’s social customs, family life, traditional food and drink, festivals, and much more. There are also brief but vivid capsule biographies of famous individuals who rose to prominence from each ethnic group. Approximately 150 illustrations in each book.
This important new series documents and dramatizes the immigration experience of untold numbers of men, women, and children who arrived in America from the four corners of the world. As they assimilated into American society, they enriched the nation’s character and experience. Many of America’s immigrants passed through the Ellis Island Immigration Center in New York Harbor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What were the initial hopes and fears of these new arrivals? Where did they first settle, and what kinds of work did they find? Which elements from their various cultures have since blended into the national scene and helped reshape what has become modern America? The first titles in this dramatic series bring alive the experiences of four important ethnic groups, with contemporary photos and first-person accounts of their dramatic, life-changing experiences. Readers glimpse each group’s social customs, family life, traditional food and drink, festivals, and much more. There are also brief but vivid capsule biographies of famous individuals who rose to prominence from each ethnic group. Approximately 150 illustrations in each book.
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When Columbus arrived in the Americas with six Jews on board his ship, who would have dreamed that the Jewish population in America would go on to become one of such size and influence in the centuries to come. In "Coming to America: Jewish Americans, Robert Stein tells the heart-rending story of the three waves of Jewish persecution and immigration from different parts of the world (South America, Germany, and Eastern Europe and Russia); by 1911, one quarter of Manhattan's residents were Jewish. They brought with them their vibrant Yiddish culture and distinctive food, their strong work ethic and yearning for education, and a determination to pull together in the face of anti-Semitism; and drawing on a rich artistic heritage, they gave us talents ranging from Arthur Miller and Irving Berlin to Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg.
Titles in this series:
African Americans Italian Americans Irish Americans Jewish Americans
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For the world's oppressed, poor, or simply opportunistic, America has always offered hope, luck, and the chance for a new start. "Coming to America is a nostalgic and evocative series using the authentic voices and personal accounts of the people who undertook--willingly or unwillingly--the often-dangerous voyage to the new country. Authored by specialists in their subjects under the general editorship of Barry Moreno, a curator at Ellis Island Museum, the books contain dozens of voices that speak clearly down the generations. They relate the engrossing stories of their personal histories, their journeys, how they were received, and what they made of their new lives in America.
Robert Stein is a historian and a StaffDeveloper at the Research Foundation at the State University of New York. Following his thesis on American immigration and migrant mobility, displayed at Ellis Island, he now teaches American history, specializing in the history of welfare reform in the United States.
Barry Moreno is a historian at the Ellis Island Museum. He has worked on a book of interviews of the immigrants passing through Ellis Island in different decades, and was the author of the Statue of Liberty Encyclopedia.
When Columbus arrived in the Americas with six Jews on board his ship, who would have dreamed that the Jewish population in America would go on to become one of such size and influence in the centuries to come. In "Coming to America: Jewish Americans, Robert Stein tells the heart-rending story of the three waves of Jewish persecution and immigration from different parts of the world (South America, Germany, and Eastern Europe and Russia); by 1911, one quarter of Manhattan's residents were Jewish. They brought with them their vibrant Yiddish culture and distinctive food, their strong work ethic and yearning for education, and a determination to pull together in the face of anti-Semitism; and drawing on a rich artistic heritage, they gave us talents ranging from Arthur Miller and Irving Berlin to Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg.
Titles in this series:
African Americans Italian Americans Irish Americans Jewish Americans
[flap copy]
For the world's oppressed, poor, or simply opportunistic, America has always offered hope, luck, and the chance for a new start. "Coming to America is a nostalgic and evocative series using the authentic voices and personal accounts of the people who undertook--willingly or unwillingly--the often-dangerous voyage to the new country. Authored by specialists in their subjects under the general editorship of Barry Moreno, a curator at Ellis Island Museum, the books contain dozens of voices that speak clearly down the generations. They relate the engrossing stories of their personal histories, their journeys, how they were received, and what they made of their new lives in America.
Robert Stein is a historian and a StaffDeveloper at the Research Foundation at the State University of New York. Following his thesis on American immigration and migrant mobility, displayed at Ellis Island, he now teaches American history, specializing in the history of welfare reform in the United States.
Barry Moreno is a historian at the Ellis Island Museum. He has worked on a book of interviews of the immigrants passing through Ellis Island in different decades, and was the author of the Statue of Liberty Encyclopedia.
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- PublisherB E S Pub Co
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0764156268
- ISBN 13 9780764156267
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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