A time for building

"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.

המשפט הראשון: BETWEEN 1880 and 1920, more than two million Jews from the countries of eastern Europe chose to come to the United States.

שנה

1992

שפה

English

הוצאה

The Johns Hopkins University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

344

ISBN

9780801851223

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata