My future is in America : autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish immigrants / edited and translated by Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer.

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9788147170473
8147170475

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: My future is in America.DDC classification:

920/.0092924073 B 22

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DS135.E89 M9 2006eb

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Contents:

Success or failure? / Minnie Goldstein -- Why I came to America / Ben Reisman -- "I have nothing to complain about" / Shmuel Krone -- Why I left my old home and what I have accomplished in America / Aaron Domnitz -- What drove me to America and my experiences in Europe and America / Rose Schoenfeld -- "My future is in America" / Rose Silverman -- The movies pale in comparison / Bertha Fox -- Why I left the old country and what I have accomplished in America / -- Chaim Kusnetz -- I haven't lost anything by coming to America / Minnie Kusnetz.

Summary: In 1942, YIVO held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme "Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America." Chosen from over two hundred entries, and translated from Yiddish, the nine life stories in My Future Is in America provide a compelling portrait of American Jewish life in the immigrant generation at the turn of the twentieth century. The writers arrived in America in every decade from the 1890s to the 1920s. They include manual workers, shopkeepers, housewives, communal activists, and professionals who came from all parts of Eastern.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated into English.

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In 1942, YIVO held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme "Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America." Chosen from over two hundred entries, and translated from Yiddish, the nine life stories in My Future Is in America provide a compelling portrait of American Jewish life in the immigrant generation at the turn of the twentieth century. The writers arrived in America in every decade from the 1890s to the 1920s. They include manual workers, shopkeepers, housewives, communal activists, and professionals who came from all parts of Eastern.

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