An American in the Making : : The Life Story of an Immigrant / / M. E. Ravage; ed. by Steven G. Kellman.
At the turn of the twentieth century, M. E. Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who, like millions of others from eastern and southern Europe, were lured by tales of worldly success. Seventeen years after arriving on Ellis Island, Ravage had mastered a new language...
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