Strangers in the West
Subtitle: the Syrian colony of New York City, 1880-1900
By: Linda K. Jacobs
Publisher: Kalimah Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780983539254
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Syrian Americans; History; Immigrants; Arab Americans
Description: The never-before-told story of the Arab immigrants who settled in New York City, beginning in 1880. They came primarily from what was then known as "Greater Syria," and settled in tenements on the lower west side of Manhattan, founding an Arabic-speaking enclave just south of the future site of the World Trade Center. Arriving in the New World with little more than their resourcefulness and business acumen, these immigrants quickly built a thriving "colony" that was the cultural and economic center of the Syrian diaspora in America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-[448]) and index.