A Time for Building; The Third Migration 1880-1920
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. xvii, [3], 306, [2] pages. Illustrated front cover. Minor wear and soiling to cover. This is one of The Jewish People in America series, sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society. Series Editor's Foreword. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographical Essay. Index. Gerald Sorin (born October 23, 1940) is a Distinguished Professor of American and Jewish Studies and the Director of the Louis and Mildred Resnick Institute for the Study of Modern Jewish Life at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Sorin earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1969. Sorin started teaching in 1965 at SUNY New Paltz, where he specialized in American social and political history and culture. He became the Director of the Jewish Studies Program at SUNY New Paltz in 1983, the Chair of the History Department in 1986, and was the founder of the Louis and Mildred Resnick Institute for the Study of Modern Jewish Life in 1989, which he continues to direct. His biography of the New York Intellectual, democratic Socialist, and Yiddishist, Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent (2002), won the National Jewish Book Award in History in 2003. A Time for Building: American Jewish Immigration, The Third Migration, 1880-1920, is part of the acclaimed five-volume series The Jewish People in America, edited by Henry Feingold, and was judged “a thoroughly engaging, carefully researched, and professionally impressive synthesis.” In 2013, his Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane won the National Jewish Book Award in Biography and a biography silver medal from Independent Publisher Awards (IPPY). The years between 1880 and 1920 marked the third great migration of Jews to the U.S.--including more than two million from the Russian empire, Austria-Hungary, and Rumania. A Time for Building describes the experiences of Jews who stayed in the large cities of the Northeast and Midwest as well as those who moved to smaller towns in the deep South and the West. Condition: Very good / No dust jacket issued.
Keywords: Jews, Anti-Semitism, Israelite, Hebrew, Immigration, Judaism, Rabbi, Religion, Synagogues, Stephen S. Wise, Yiddish, Cultural Pluralism, Zionism, Americanization, Assimilation, Eastern European, Socialism
ISBN: 080185122X
[Book #85150]
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