<p>A PHOTO-ILLUSTRATED CELEBRATION OF JEWISH IMMIGRANT LIFE IN AMERICAFrom the 1880s to 1920s, more than two million Jews immigrated to the United States. Most were fleeing poverty and persecution in Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire. As the U.S. Jewish population swelled from 250,000 to 4 million, Jews in America built new identities and strong communities for themselves.Midway through that wave of immigration, the author of this booklet — the noted French political writer Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, who had written extensively about anti-Semitism — toured U.S. Jewish communities to see how the refugees were doing. “I had already visited most of the Jewish quarters in Europe, Asia and Africa,” he explained in 1904. “It remained for me to acquaint myself with what Americans improperly refer to as the ‘ghettos’ of the New World.” What he saw in the northeastern United States impressed him tremendously.Back home in France, he gave an enthusiastic talk to the Jewish Studies Association in Paris, praising a “land of wonders and liberty” where throngs of long-oppressed Jews were thriving. Librairie Nouvelle published his lecture as a short book in 1905. This new English translation supplements the text with more than fifty photos and illustrations.This translation is the second book in the Between Wanderings collection.</p>

Jewish Immigrants in Early 1900s America: A Visitor's Account

History

Leroy-Beaulieu, Anatole

World

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<p>VILLAGE TALES FROM 19TH-CENTURY FRANCEThe author of these charming stories grew up in a picturesque Yiddish-speaking village in 1830s France. His tales evoke the people and folkways of a rural Jewish world that was vanishing quickly.In these stories, you'll meet Salomon, Yedele and their loved ones. You'll share their joys, losses, courtships and holiday celebrations. You'll also meet traditional Alsatian storytellers who recount Yiddish folk tales of ghosts and sorcery, and of "wonder rabbis" who could banish demons and lift curses.This new English translation restores the Yiddishisms and Jewish wording that the author deleted in the 1850s when reworking the stories for a largely Gentile audience. This edition also adds illustrations by Alphonse Lévy, a 19th-century Alsatian Jewish artist whose drawings and etchings mesh perfectly with the tales.</p>

Scenes of Jewish Life in Alsace: Village Tales from 19th-Century France (Between Wanderings)

Literature & Fiction

Stauben, Daniel

World Literature

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