Research Catalog

Title

My future is in America : autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish immigrants / edited and translated by Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Cohen, Jocelyn.
• Soyer, Daniel.
• Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.

Description

xi, 329 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Europe, Eastern > Ethnic relations
• Jews > Europe, Eastern > Biography
• Immigrants > United States > Biography
• United States > Ethnic relations
• Jews, East European > United States > Biography

Note

• "Published in conjunction with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Success or failure? / Minnie Goldstein -- Why I came to America / Ben Reisman -- "I have nothing to complain about" / Shmuel Krone -- Why I left my old home and what I have accomplished in America / Aaron Domnitz -- What drove me to America and my experiences in Europe and America / Rose Schoenfeld -- "My future is in America" / Rose Silverman -- The movies pale in comparison / Bertha Fox -- Why I left the old country and what I have accomplished in America / -- Chaim Kusnetz -- I haven't lost anything by coming to America / Minnie Kusnetz.

Call Number

*PXY 06-1522 [Copy 1]

ISBN

0814740197 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005018192
• 9780814740194

OCLC

60776712

Title

My future is in America : autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish immigrants / edited and translated by Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer.

Imprint

New York : New York University Press, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Cohen, Jocelyn.

Soyer, Daniel.

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.

Other Standard Identifier

9780814740194

Research Call Number

*PXY 06-1522 [Copy 1]

*PXY 08-1133 [Copy 2]