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Dispersing the ghetto : the relocation of Jewish immigrants across America /
In the early 20th century, the population of New York City's Lower East Side swelled with vast numbers of eastern European Jewish immigrants. The tenements, whose inhabitants faced poverty and frequent unemployment, provoked the hostile attention of immigration restrictionists, many of whom dis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the early 20th century, the population of New York City's Lower East Side swelled with vast numbers of eastern European Jewish immigrants. The tenements, whose inhabitants faced poverty and frequent unemployment, provoked the hostile attention of immigration restrictionists, many of whom disdained Jews, racial minorities, and foreigners as inferior. Accordingly, they aimed to stifle the growth of dense ethnic settlements by curtailing immigration. Dispersing the Ghetto is the first book to describe in detail an important but little-known chapter in American immigration history, t. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1988. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-237) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781609170370 1609170377 |