Our parents' lives : the Americanization of Eastern European Jews /

An account, based on interviews, of the experiences of East European Jewish immigrants and of their children (born between 1895-1915), emphasizing the traumas of antisemitism in Eastern Europe and of the demands of assimilation in the USA. Ch. 1 (pp. 3-38), "Dangerous Just to Be: Life in the Ol...

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Main Author: Cowan, Neil M.
Other Authors: Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, ©1989.
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