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CUTLER, IRVING. The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb (1996). A story that parallels the history of New York’s Lower East Side.
DANIELS, ROGER. Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882 (2005). American immigration policy from the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) to the present.
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HANDLIN, OSCAR. The Uprooted (1951). Evocative classic re-creation of immigrant experience.
HOWE, IRVING. World of Our Fathers (1976). Thorough and beautifully written account of eastern European Jewish immigration.
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ANTIN, MARY. The Promised Land (1912). Autobiography of a young woman who adapted readily to American life.
CUTLER, IRVING. The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb (1996). A story that parallels the history of New York’s Lower East Side.
DANIELS, ROGER. Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882 (2005). American immigration policy from the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) to the present.
DOLKHART, ANDREW. Biography of a Tenement House in New York City (2007). Architectural and social history of one representative tenement house in the Lower East Side.
HANDLIN, OSCAR. The Uprooted (1951). Evocative classic re-creation of immigrant experience.
HOWE, IRVING. World of Our Fathers (1976). Thorough and beautifully written account of eastern European Jewish immigration.
SALZ, EVELYN, EDITOR. Selected Letters of Mary Antin (2000). Provides a window of the complexities of Mary Antin’s life, including her later mysticism.