A Time for Building
The Third Migration, 1880-1920
Gerald Sorin(Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 27. October 1992
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-8018-4345-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
765 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-4345-7 (9780801843457)
DOI
10.56021/9780801843457
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Eli Faber is professor of history and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York. Hasia Diner is professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Gerald Sorin is chairman of the Department of History and Director of Jewish Studies at the State University of New York, New Paltz. Henry L. Feingold is professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Edward S. Shapiro is professor of history at Seton Hall University.