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

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 329 p. : ill.
Note "Published in conjunction with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research."
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Biography.
Jews, East European -- United States -- Biography.
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cohen, Jocelyn.
Soyer, Daniel.
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0814740197 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814740194

 
    
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