My future is in America : autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish immigrants /

In 1942, YIVO held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme "Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America." Chosen from over two hundred entries, and translated from Yiddish, the nine life stories in My Future Is in America provide a com...

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企业作者: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
其他作者: Cohen, Jocelyn, Soyer, Daniel
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
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出版: New York : New York University Press, ©2006.
丛编:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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书本目录:
  • 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.