American mosaic : the immigrant experience in the words of those who lived it / Joan Morrison and Charlotte Fox Zabusky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrison, Joan, author.

Zabusky, Charlotte Fox, author.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in social and labor history.

Pitt Series in Social and Labor History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Biography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This extraordinary work of oral history captures the immense drama and full dimensions of the American immigrant experience. The men and women who tell their stories include such famous names as Alistair Cooke, W. Michael Blumenthal, Edward Teller, and Lynn Redgrave. But they share these pages with 136 other people whose stories are equally compelling: a Jewish former sweatshop worker and union organizer, a Scandanavian homesteader, a Polish coal miner, an anti-Nazi refugee, a Japanese war bride, a Mexican migrant worker, a Cuban exile, a South African interracial couple, a Soviet dissident, and many more. They reveal the mingled joy and pain, hardship and triumph that were and are part of the glowing dream and fearful gamble of a new life in a new land. They offer unique understanding not only of the makeup but of the meaning of America.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Passage to America

Part I: The Last of the Old: The Traditional Immigrants

Sonia Walinsky from Russia

Walter Lindstrom from Sweden

Pauline Newman from Lithuania

Anna Ohlson from Norway

John Daroubian from Armenia

Peter Kekonnen from Finland

Albertina di Grazia from Italy

Taro Murata from Japan

Gunnar Johanson from Iceland

Bridget Fitzgerald from Ireland

Elizabeth Dolan from Ireland

Katherine O'Hara from Ireland

Michael Kinney from Ireland

Sophie Zurowski from Poland

Steve Madich from Yugoslavia

George Palochek from Czechoslovakia

Vera Gurchikov from Hungary

Casimir Kopek from Poland

Matthew Murray from Ireland

Grace Calabrese from Italy

Joseph Bacardo from Italy

Zosia Kaminsky from Poland

Julia Goniprow from Lithuania

Ludwig Hofmeister from Germany

Demetrius Paleologas from Greece

Nick Pappas from Greece

Arthur Wong from China

Ho Yang from China

Ibrahim Hassan from Palestine

Branwyn Davies from Wales

Sylvia Bernstein from Austria

Vladimir Zworykin from Russia

Lydia Orloff from Russia

Max Levy from Russia

Ida Levy from Russia

Gregory Leontyeff from Russia

Ivor Davies from Wales

Thomas Neil from Scotland

Andrew Fraser from Scotland

Hiroshi Yamada from Japan

George Kistiakowsky from Russia

Agnes Martin from Canada

Isabella Mendoza from Mexico

Alistair Cooke from England

Part II: The Wartime Influx: Heroes, Victims, Survivors

Emmi Hofmann from Germany

Klara Zwicker from Germany

Elise Radell from Germany

Enid Armstrong from Scotland

Hilda Gerhart from Germany

Lieselotte Mueller from Germany

Tanya Shimiewsky from Poland

Wojtek Pobog from Poland

Grete Rasmussen from Denmark

Riccardo Massoni from Italy

Alexandra Danilova from the USSR.

Victor Manchinko ffrom the USSR

Serge Nicholas from Manchuria

Edward Teller from Hungary

Eugene Wigner from Hungary

Ursula Ritter from Germany

Friedrich von Dietze from Germany

Karl Reinhardt from East Gremany

Lore Steiner from Germany

Willi and Ilse Kienzle from Germany

Tacwyn Morgan from Wales

Frieda Ross from Germany

Tanaka Simpson from Japan

Keiko Grant from Japan

Colette Montgomery from France

Enxo Berardi from Italy

Denise Levertov from England

Joseph Bergman from Poland

Leida Sorro and her daughter Maiu Espinosa from Estonia

Felix Kucynski from Poland

Narin Petrow from the USSR

Paul Maracek from Czechoslovakia

Rudy Cracovik from Yugoslavia

Stefan Juranic from Yugoslavia

Ilona Bertok from Hungary

Maria Nikitin from Latvia

W. Michael Blumenthal from Germany

Part III: Immigration: A Continuing Process

Sean McGonagle from Ireland

Laszlo Natalny from Hungary

Heinz Eckhardt from Germany

Sandor Vesely from Hungary

Betty Chu from China

Labring Sakya from Tibet

Boris Koltsov from the USSR

Roberto Ortiz from Cuba

Ramon Fernandez from Cuba

Su-Chu Hadley from Taiwan

César Le Clair from France

Nokos Liadis from Cyprus

Phillip Contos from Turkey

Lee Chang from Hong Kong

Miguel Torres from Mexico

José Garcia from Mexico

Orlando Galvez from Colombia

Marta Ramirez from Argentina

Luisa Rojas from Guatemala

Jaime Alvarez from Peru

Rita Flores from Colombia

Mario Lucci from Italy

Salvatore Bianchi from Italy

Liv Jorgensen from Norway

Monica Dickens from England

Gujri Bazaz from India

Karim and Aziza Mohommed from Egypt

Einat Ben-Ami from Israel

Robert Vickers from England

Ari Amichai (I) from Israel

Lena Klassen from Indonesia

Irina Aronoff from the USSR.

Kitty McGonagle from Ireland

Claudine Renaud from Martinique

Imogene Hayes from Jamaica

Hamilton Hayes from Jamaica

Tunde Ayobami from Nigeria

Rennie Stennett from Panama

Ari Amichai (II) from Israel

Lynn redgrave from England

Premier Nguyen Cao Ky from South Vietnam

Tuan Pham from South Vietnam

Hoa Tran from South Vietnam

Thien Vinh from South Vietnam

Huong Vinh from South Vietnam

Mai Vinh from South Vietnam

Kurt Schaeffer from Germany

Ari Amichai (III) from Israel

Galina Kamenetsky from the USSR

Larissa Brazovsky from the USSR

Sofia Rabinovich from the USSR

Yuri Sinelnikov from the USSR

Vo Thi Tam from Vietnam

Johanna and Ali Patel from South Africa.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 9, 2014).

ISBN:

9780822980193

0822980193

OCLC:

884594971