Time for Building: The Third Migration, 1880-1920

Gerald Sorin

ISBN 10: 0801843456 / ISBN 13: 9780801843457

Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press September 1992, 1992

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• Titolo: Time for Building: The Third Migration, 1880-1920
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press September 1992
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801843456
• ISBN 13: 9780801843457
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Judaica

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Riassunto

Sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society in its centennial year, this book is part of a five-volume set which chronicles Jewish life in the United States from colonial times to the present. The respective authors explore the roots of Jewish immigration, the experience of settling in America, economic and social adjustment, religious developments and educational aspirations, political involvements, and the experience from generation to generation of what it means to be at once both Jewish and American. The years between 1880-1920 marked the third great migration of Jews to the USA - including more than two million from the Russian empire. Volume three begins with the story of such individuals as Benjamin Bloomingdale and Edward Filene - who grew from peddlers to merchants and came to dominate the burgeoning department store industry. Sorin describes the experiences of Jews who stayed in the large cities of the Northeast and Midwest, as well as those who moved to the smaller towns in the deep South and the West.

Recensione

"The five volumes in this excellent history of Jews in the United States are a tribute to the foresight and dedication of Henry Feingold who more than a decade ago decided that the best way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish Historical Society (1892) would be to produce a multi-volume account of Jewish experiences in this nation. Feingold devoted the bulk of his professional life in the 1980s to obtaining this goal, and the publication of these books attests to his intelligence, perseverance, and judgement. As entrepreneur Feingold did all of the right things. His choices for the authors of the volumes were superb and each of the individuals has written a thoroughly engaging, carefully researched, and professionally impressive synthesis of an aspect of the American Jewish past." -- Journal of Social History