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World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

Irving Howe

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World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

World of Our Fathers won the National Book Award, 1976. World of Our Fathers traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century.

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Publisher
NYU Press
Year
2005
ISBN-13
9780814736852
Genre
History
Topics
Jewish immigrationEastern European Jews in AmericaYiddish culture and assimilation

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