A Century of Jewish Immigration to the United States
Title | A Century of Jewish Immigration to the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Handlin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Jews |
ISBN |
The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000
Title | The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 PDF eBook |
Author | Hasia R. Diner |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 2006-05-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520248481 |
Annotation A history of Jews in American that is informed by the constant process of negotiation undertaken by ordinary Jews in their communities who wanted at one and the same time to be good Jews and full Americans.
At the Edge of a Dream
Title | At the Edge of a Dream PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence J Epstein |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2007-08-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0787986224 |
"A Lower East Side Tenement Museum book."
A Century of Jewish Immigration to the United States, in The American Jewish Year Book, 1948
Title | A Century of Jewish Immigration to the United States, in The American Jewish Year Book, 1948 PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Handlin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1948 |
Genre | Jews |
ISBN |
After They Closed the Gates
Title | After They Closed the Gates PDF eBook |
Author | Libby Garland |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2014-03-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022612259X |
In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of southern and eastern Europe, and banning almost all immigration from Asia, the new laws were supposed to stem the tide of foreigners considered especially inferior and dangerous. However, immigrants continued to come, sailing into the port of New York with fake passports, or from Cuba to Florida, hidden in the holds of boats loaded with contraband liquor. Jews, one of the main targets of the quota laws, figured prominently in the new international underworld of illegal immigration. However, they ultimately managed to escape permanent association with the identity of the “illegal alien” in a way that other groups, such as Mexicans, thus far, have not. In After They Closed the Gates, Libby Garland tells the untold stories of the Jewish migrants and smugglers involved in that underworld, showing how such stories contributed to growing national anxieties about illegal immigration. Garland also helps us understand how Jews were linked to, and then unlinked from, the specter of illegal immigration. By tracing this complex history, Garland offers compelling insights into the contingent nature of citizenship, belonging, and Americanness.
Jewish Immigration to the United States, from 1881 to 1910
Title | Jewish Immigration to the United States, from 1881 to 1910 PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Joseph |
Publisher | |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Words of the Uprooted
Title | Words of the Uprooted PDF eBook |
Author | Robert A. Rockaway |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2018-09-05 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1501724630 |
American Jewish leaders, many of German extraction, created the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) in 1901 in order to disperse unemployed Jewish immigrants from New York City to smaller Jewish communities throughout the United States. The IRO was designed to help refugees from persecution in the Pale of Russia find jobs and community support and, secondarily, to reduce the Manhattan ghettoes and minimize antisemitism. In twenty-one years, the IRO distributed seventy-nine thousand East European Jews to over fifteen hundred cities and towns, including Chino, California; Des Moines, Iowa; and Pensacola, Florida. Wherever they went, these twice-displaced immigrants wrote letters to the IRO's main office. Robert A. Rockaway has selected, and translated from Yiddish, letters that describe the immigrants' new surroundings, work conditions, and living situations, as well as letters that give voice to typical tensions between the immigrants and their benefactors. Rockaway introduces the letters with an essay on conditions in the Pale and on early American Jewish attempts to assist emigrants.