Full name: World of Our Fathers: The Journey of The Eastern European Jews to America

Author: Irving Howe Year: 1976 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, History, Non Fiction, Religion Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing

A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic. Winner of the National Book Award, 1976 World of Our Fathers traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century. This invaluable contribution to Jewish literature and culture is now back in print in a new paperback edition, which includes a new foreword by noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein. Similar books: The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine "Our Crowd" by Stephen Birmingham A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson The Jews of Islam by Bernard Lewis Yiddish Civilisation by Paul Kriwaczek When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone by Gal Beckerman A Religious History of the American People by S. E. Ahlstrom The Aleppo Codex by Matti Friedman A Chosen Few by Mark Kurlansky The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill Life Is with People by Mark Zborowski A Bintel Brief by Isaac Metzker Tough Jews by Rich Cohen Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ by Alfred Edersheim There Once Was a World by Yaffa Eliach A Nation of Immigrants by John F. Kennedy Salonica, City of Ghosts by Mark Mazower Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels American Grace by Robert D. Putnam