American and British Jews in the age of the great migration / Lloyd P. Gartner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gartner, Lloyd P., 1927-2011.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews, East European--United States--History.

Jews, East European.

Jews, East European--Great Britain--History.

Jews--Migrations--History--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Migrations--History--20th century.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Jews--Migrations.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

United States.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiii, 290 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2009.

Contents:

1 Jewish Migrants en route from Europe to North America: Traditions and Realities 1

2 The Great Jewish Migration 1881-1914: Myths and Realities 20

3 Romania and America, 1873: Leon Horowitz's Romanian Tour and Its Background 29

4 East European Jewish Migration: Germany and Britain 53

5 North Atlantic Jewry 68

6 Eastern European Jewish Immigrants in England: A Quarter-Century's view 79

7 Women in the Great Jewish Migration 93

8 Immigration and the Formation of American Jewry, 1840-1925 104

9 Anglo-Jewry and the Jewish International Traffic in Prostitution, 1885-1914 119

10 Romania, America and World Jewry: Consul Peixotto in Bucharest, 1870-1876 164

11 From New York to Miedzyrecz; Immigrant Letters of Judah David Eisenstein, 1878-1886 243

12 The Great Jewish Migration: Its East European Background 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780853037828

0853037825

OCLC:

244652674