A Time for Building: The Third Migration, 1880-1920

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JHU Press, 1995 - 344 pages
"In this volume, [the author] focuses on how the eastern European Jewish migration, which set the tone for American Jewry in the final decades of the nineteenth century, confronted the issue of accommodation and group survival. A distinctive political and general culture, which amalgamated traditional Jewish and new American values, was established by the immigrant generation. That Yiddish-speaking transitional culture, which prevailed in the ethnic enclaves of the cities, was considerably modified once Jews left these core communities and after World War I, the cultural energy of the immigrant generation waned"--Series editor's foreword.
 

Contents

Prologue
1
Mobility and Community beyond New York
136
Chapter
170
Chapter Seven
191
Chapter Eight
219
Epilogue
236
Notes
243
Bibliographical Essay
279
On the Eve of the Great Transformation I
Sources of the Eastern European Migration 12
12
Chapter
38
Chapter Three
69
Chapter Four
109
Illustrations follow page 124
124
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About the author (1995)

Gerald Sorin is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is the author of A Time for Building: The Third Migration, 1880-1920 (Volume 3 of The Jewish People in America), available from Johns Hopkins.

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