My future is in America [electronic resource] : autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish immigrants / edited and translated by Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer.
Contributor(s): Cohen, Jocelyn | Soyer, Daniel | Yivo Institute for Jewish Research | ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: New York : New York University Press, c2006Description: xi, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Biography | Jews, East European -- United States -- Biography | Immigrants -- United States -- Biography | United States -- Ethnic relations | Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 920/.0092924073 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view "Published in conjunction with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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