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World of Our Fathers / Irving Howe, with the assistance of Kenneth Libo.

Summary:

Discusses the Jews of Eastern Europe who emigrated to America during the four decades beginning in the 1880s and the life they made, especially those who settled on the East Side of New York City.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780151463534
  • ISBN: 0151463530
  • ISBN: 9780151463534
  • Physical Description: xx, 714 pages, [24] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York ; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1976]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 685-693) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Toward America -- The east side -- The culture of Yiddish -- Dispersion.
Awards Note:
American Political Science Association Ralph J. Bunche Award, 1978.
Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1977.
Subject:
Jews, East European > New York (State) > New York.
Jews > New York (State) > New York.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York.
Yiddish language > New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Immigrants.
Jews.
Jews, East European.
Yiddish language.
New York (State) > New York.
Jews > United States.
United States > Jewish history.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library F 128.9 .J5 H69 1976 249740 Stacks Available -

Electronic resources

Version of Resource: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0705/75016342.html

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