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

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Rockaway, Robert A., 1939-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Series:Documents in American social history.
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