My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants edited by Jocelyn Cohen Sale Books Three Daughters

Three Daughters

it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more

Netsky defines what klezmer music is

By exploring the phenomenon and the memory of pogroms and blood libels in the Soviet territories of the interwar period as well as

as teenagers taking their own tentative steps into the wider world (Esther working for a woman who runs both a burlesque theater and a whorehouse

My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants edited by Jocelyn Cohen Sale Books Three DaughtersIn 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 compelling portrait of American Jewish life in the immigrant generation at the turn of the twentieth century. The writers arrived in America in every decade from the