Dispersing the ghetto
Subtitle: the relocation of Jewish immigrants across America
By: Jack Glazier.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Industrial Removal Office (U.S.); Jews, East European -- United States -- History.; Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Migrations.; Jews -- United States -- Charities.; United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Description: In the early twentieth century, the population of New York City's Lower East Side swelled with the arrival of vast numbers of eastern European Jewish immigrants. Established American Jews - arrivals from the German states only a generation before - feared that their security might be threatened by the newcomers. They established the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) to assist in relocating the immigrants to the towns and cities of the nation's interior.

Dispersing the Ghetto is the first book to describe in detail this important but little-known chapter in American immigration history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-237) and index.