A time for building
Subtitle: the third migration, 1880-1920
By: Gerald Sorin.
Series: The Jewish people in America ;; v. 3
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- History.; Jews, East European -- United States -- History.; Immigrants -- United States -- History.; United States -- Emigration and immigration.; United States -- Ethnic relations.
Description: "In this volume, [the author] focuses on how the eastern European Jewish migration, which set the tone for American Jewry in the final decades of the nineteenth century, confronted the issue of accommodation and group survival. A distinctive political and general culture, which amalgamated traditional Jewish and new American values, was established by the immigrant generation. That Yiddish-speaking transitional culture, which prevailed in the ethnic enclaves of the cities, was considerably modified once Jews left these core communities and after World War I, the cultural energy of the immigrant generation waned"--Series editor's foreword.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-287) and index.