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A time for building : the third migration, 1880-1920

"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
Print Book, English, ©1992
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©1992
History
xvii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801843457, 9780801851223, 0801843456, 080185122X
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ch. 1. Sources of the Eastern European migration
ch. 2. The immigration experience
ch. 3. New York as the promised city
ch. 4. Prophets, proletarians, and progressives
ch. 5. Mobility and community beyond New York
ch. 6. Varieties of religious belief and behavior
ch. 7. Participation in the American political system
ch. 8. Cultural pluralism and Zionism