Unfinished People
Subtitle: Eastern European Jews Encounter America
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780393322408
First sentence: At the height of the immigrant flood from Europe (1880-1920), when New York was the great mother port for immigrant ships, 17 million immigrants, three quarters of all those who came to the United States, were sluiced through the narrow gates of Ellis Island and Castle Garden, the two receiving stations in New York.