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Title Words of the uprooted : Jewish immigrants in early twentieth-century America / [compiled by ] Robert A. Rockaway.

Publication Info. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1998.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.84924 W924W    Check Shelf
Description xi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Documents in American social history
Documents in American social history.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The IRO and Eastern European Immigration (starting p. 1) -- Pt. 1 The IRO as an Institution -- 1 Letters from Traveling Agents (starting p. 39) -- David Bressler (1905) -- Morris Waldman (1907) -- Elias Margolis (1908) -- Abraham Solomon (1912-1913) -- 2 Letters from Communities (starting p. 70) -- Atlanta, Georgia (1913) -- Lafayette, Indiana (1907) -- Los Angeles, California (1910) -- 3 Letters from Local Agents (starting p. 81) -- Samuel Levy (Bloomington, Illinois) -- Jacob Furth (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Isaac Kuhn (Champaign, Illinois) -- Pt. 2 The Immigrants -- 4 Interactions with the IRO (starting p. 117) -- Chaim Zadik Lubin (Wichita, Kansas) -- Charles Zwirn (La Crosse, Wisconsin) -- Louis Friedman (Detroit, Michigan) -- M. Goldstein (Columbus, Ohio) -- Jacob Finkelstein (Cincinnati, Ohio) -- Jacob Schiffman (Detroit, Michigan) -- Joseph Lipetz (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) -- Benny Finkelkraut (Minneapolis, Minnesota) -- H. Schreiber (Chicago, Illinois) -- Mrs. Samuel Friedman (Minneapolis, Minnesota) -- Moses Goldstein (Chattanooga, Tennessee) -- Mary Rubin (New Orleans, Louisiana) -- Israel Ginsberg (Chicago, Illinois) -- Joseph Davidowitz and Froim Kravitz (Memphis, Tennessee) -- Harry Liss et al. (Spokane, Washington) -- Jake Liboff et al. (Gary, Indiana) -- 5 Economic Adjustment $g (starting p. 165) -- Nathan Toplitzky and Miriam Hart (Detroit, Michigan) -- Morris Weinkrantz (Des Moines, Iowa) -- Alex Grubman (Portland, Oregon) -- Barnet Marlin (Atlanta, Georgia) -- Max Fruchtman (Pensacola, Florida) -- 6 Social/Cultural Adjustment (starting p. 183) -- Raphael Gershoni (Atlanta, Georgia) -- David Selechanok (Columbus, Ohio) -- Sarah Goldenberg (St. Louis, Missouri) -- Monroe Goldstein (New York City) -- Leta Chlanin and Nachum Geishin (New York City and Cleveland, Ohio) -- 7 Immigrant Perceptions of America (starting p. 198) -- Abraham Cohen (St. Louis, Missouri) -- Leo Stamm (Meridian, Mississippi) -- Simon Sachs (Dubuque, Iowa) -- Epilogue: Motivations and Misconceptions (starting p. 205) -- Notes $g (starting p. 211) -- Index (starting p. 225)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.
Subject Industrial Removal Office (U.S.)
Jews, East European -- United States -- Correspondence.
Immigrants -- United States -- Correspondence.
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Added Author Rockaway, Robert A., 1939-
ISBN 0801485509 cloth: alk. paper
0801434556 cloth: alk. paper
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