Words of the uprooted : Jewish immigrants in early twentieth-century America /

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American Jewish leaders, many of German extraction, created the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) in 1901 in order to disperse unemployed Jewish immigrants from New York City to smaller Jewish communities throughout the United States. The IRO was designed to help refugees from persecution in the Pale...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rockaway, Robert A., 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Colección:Documents in American social history.
Temas:
Industrial Removal Office (U.S.)
Jews, East European > United States > Correspondence.
Immigrants > United States > Correspondence.
Juifs est-européens > États-Unis > Correspondance.
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
Jews, East European
United States > Emigration and immigration.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration.
United States
Personal correspondence
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The IRQ and Eastern European Immigration
  • Part One: The IRO as an Institution
  • 1. Letters from Traveling Agents
  • 2. Letters from Communities
  • 3. Letters from Local Agents
  • Part Two. The Immigrants
  • 4. Interactions with the IRO
  • 5. Economic Adjustment
  • 6. Social/Cultural Adjustment
  • 7. Immigrant Perceptions of America
  • Epilogue: Motivations and Misconceptions
  • Notes
  • Index

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