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Author Sterba, Christopher M.

Title Good Americans : Italian and Jewish immigrants during the First World War / Christopher M. Sterba.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  940.373 S838G    Check Shelf
Description viii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction: The Melting Pot Goes to War -- 1. The Heyday of the New Immigrant Enclave -- I. Your Country Needs You -- 2. "Get in Out of the Draft": Raising Volunteers and the Italian Response in New Haven -- 3. "Not as a Jew but as a Citizen": The Draft and New York Jewry -- II. Training the New Immigrant Soldier -- 4. Being Italian in the Yankee Division -- 5. Being Jewish in the National Army -- III. The Home Front -- 6. "More Than Ever, We Feel Proud to Be Italians" -- 7. "New York Jewry Must Do Its Duty" -- 8. "They Were Good Americans": Survival and Victory on the Western Front -- Epilogue: A New Voice in Politics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index.
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- United States.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Italian Americans.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Jews.
Italian Americans -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 1913-1921.
ISBN 0195147545 alkaline paper
0195154886 paperback alkaline paper
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