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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Publication Date
- 1998-06-22
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN
- 9780801485503
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801485509
ISBN-13
9780801485503
eBay Product ID (ePID)
434228
Product Key Features
Book Title
Words of the Uprooted : Jewish Immigrants in Early Twentieth-Century America
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Letters, Emigration & Immigration, Jewish, Jewish Studies
Publication Year
1998
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Literary Collections, History
Book Series
Documents in American Social History Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-052123
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
A superb selection of some forty letters, bracketed by an illuminating introduction that supplies a coherent historical background and a sensitive epilogue that explores the mixed motives of the German-Jewish benefactors... Destined to become the standard reader on its subject, it will help shape the field of Jewish labor and social history for some time to come., Rockaway offers excellent source material that is crucial to students of this period.... The immigrants' letters... offer poignant portraits of displaced immigrants, some of whom meet success but many of whom encounter serious obstacles., "A superb selection of some forty letters, bracketed by an illuminating introduction that supplies a coherent historical background and a sensitive epilogue that explores the mixed motives of the German-Jewish benefactors . . . Destined to become the standard reader on its subject, it will help shape the field of Jewish labor and social history for some time to come."--Gerald Sorin, SUNY New Paltz, The Journal of American History. December, 1999., "This thoughtfully assembled collection will be useful for students of American Jewish, German, and East European history."-Ewa Morawska, University of Pennsylvania. The Jewish Quarterly Review, XCI, Nos. 3-4, January-April, 2001, "Enabling patrons as well as clients to speak, Words of the Uprooted helps enlarge our understanding of the Jewish immigration of a century ago and the Jewish institutional response to it."-Jack Glazier, Oberlin College, American Jewish History, Book Reviews, Dec. 1999., "Words of the Uprooted does an excellent job of introducing readers to a quite remarkable institution and to the history of immigration and social reform that the Industrial Removal Office's experience speaks to. Rockaway sets the scene and tells the extremely important story of the interaction of settled German-American Jews with their Russian and Eastern European Jewish brethren."--Thomas Dublin, author of Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution, "Rockaway offers excellent source material that is crucial to students of this period. . . . The immigrants' letters . . . offer poignant portraits of displaced immigrants, some of whom meet success but many of whom encounter serious obstacles."--Marjorie N. Feld, PhD Candidate in American History, Brandeis University. Labor History. August 2000., "Rockaway offers excellent source material that is crucial to students of this period. . . . The immigrants' letters . . . offer poignant portraits of displaced immigrants, some of whom meet success but many of whom encounter serious obstacles."-Marjorie N. Feld, PhD Candidate in American History, Brandeis University. Labor History. August 2000., "Words of the Uprooted does an excellent job of introducing readers to a quite remarkable institution and to the history of immigration and social reform that the Industrial Removal Office's experience speaks to. Rockaway sets the scene and tells the extremely important story of the interaction of settled German-American Jews with their Russian and Eastern European Jewish brethren."-Thomas Dublin, author of Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution, This thoughtfully assembled collection will be useful for students of American Jewish, German, and East European history., "This thoughtfully assembled collection will be useful for students of American Jewish, German, and East European history."--Ewa Morawska, University of Pennsylvania. The Jewish Quarterly Review, XCI, Nos. 3-4, January-April, 2001, "Enabling patrons as well as clients to speak, Words of the Uprooted helps enlarge our understanding of the Jewish immigration of a century ago and the Jewish institutional response to it."--Jack Glazier, Oberlin College, American Jewish History, Book Reviews, Dec. 1999., Words of the Uprooted does an excellent job of introducing readers to a quite remarkable institution and to the history of immigration and social reform that the Industrial Removal Office's experience speaks to. Rockaway sets the scene and tells the extremely important story of the interaction of settled German-American Jews with their Russian and Eastern European Jewish brethren., Enabling patrons as well as clients to speak, Words of the Uprooted helps enlarge our understanding of the Jewish immigration of a century ago and the Jewish institutional response to it.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
362.84/924073
Synopsis
American Jewish leaders, many of German extraction, created the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) in 1901 in order to disperse unemployed Jewish immigrants from New York City to smaller Jewish communities throughout the United States. The IRO was..., American Jewish leaders, many of German extraction, created the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) in 1901 in order to disperse unemployed Jewish immigrants from New York City to smaller Jewish communities throughout the United States. The IRO was designed to help refugees from persecution in the Pale of Russia find jobs and community support and, secondarily, to reduce the Manhattan ghettoes and minimize antisemitism. In twenty-one years, the IRO distributed seventy-nine thousand East European Jews to over fifteen hundred cities and towns, including Chino, California; Des Moines, Iowa; and Pensacola, Florida. Wherever they went, these twice-displaced immigrants wrote letters to the IRO's main office. Robert A. Rockaway has selected, and translated from Yiddish, letters that describe the immigrants' new surroundings, work conditions, and living situations, as well as letters that give voice to typical tensions between the immigrants and their benefactors. Rockaway introduces the letters with an essay on conditions in the Pale and on early American Jewish attempts to assist emigrants.
LC Classification Number
E184.J5W885 1998
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- k***m (49)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseBook arrived very quickly and in great condition just as described. Excellent value and quality, great seller!
- p***w (3506)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat item! Quick delivery! A+ seller!