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Jewish immigrant associations and American identity in New York, 1880-1939 / Daniel Soyer.
Van Pelt Library F128.9.J5 S69 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soyer, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews, East European--New York (State)--New York--Societies, etc--History.
- Jews, East European.
- Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Societies, etc--History.
- Immigrants.
- Jews--New York (State)--New York--Societies, etc--History.
- Jews.
- History.
- New York (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Ethnic relations.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- How did the vast number of Jewish immigrants from different regions of Eastern Europe form their American ethnic identity? In his answer to this question, Daniel Soyer examines how Jewish immigrant hometown associations "(landsmanshaftn)" transformed old-world communal ties into vehicles for integration into American society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674444175
- OCLC:
- 35770991
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