My future is in America
| Titel: | My future is in America : autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish immigrants / ed. and transl. by Jocelyn Cohen ... |
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| Beteiligt: | ; |
| Veröffentlicht: | New York : New York University Press, 2006 |
| Umfang: | XI, 329 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0814740197 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- A Note on Annotations and Transliteration
- p. xi
- Introduction: Yiddish Social Science and Jewish Immigrant Autobiography
- p. 1
- 1
- Success or Failure?
- p. 18
- 2
- Why I Came to America
- p. 35
- 3
- I Have Nothing to Complain About
- p. 106
- 4
- Why I Left My Old Home and What I Have Accomplished in America
- p. 124
- 5
- What Drove Me to America and My Experiences in Europe and America
- p. 160
- 6
- My Future Is in America
- p. 189
- 7
- The Movies Pale in Comparison
- p. 204
- 8
- Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America
- p. 233
- 9
- I Haven't Lost Anything by Coming to America
- p. 288
- Glossary
- p. 311
- Index
- p. 319
- About the Editors
- p. 329
