Words of the Uprooted - Jewish Immigrants in Early Twentieth-Century America

Summary

American Jewish leaders, many of German extraction, created the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) in 1901 in order to disperse unemployed Jewish immigrants from New York City to smaller Jewish communities throughout the United States. The IRO was...

Product details

• Authors: Robert A. Rockaway
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.1998
• EAN: 9780801434556
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-3455-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 907 g
• Series: Documents in American Social History; Documents in American Social H
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies