To the Other Shore : : The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America /

To the Other Shore : : The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America / / Steven Cassedy.

To the Other Shore tells the story of a small but influential group of Jewish intellectuals who immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire between 1881 and the early 1920s--the era of "mass immigration." This pioneer group of Jewish intellectuals, many of whom were raised in O...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Cassedy, Steven,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1997
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 361
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 11 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE
  • CHAPTER 1. "We Were Not Jews"
  • Chapter 2. "In Chernyshevsky's Kheyder"
  • Chapter 3. "Critically Thinking Individuals"
  • Chapter 4. "A Crisis of Identity"
  • PART TWO
  • Chapter 5. Coming to Shore
  • Chapter 6. "We Are Russian Workers and Besides in America"
  • Chapter 7. "We Are Jews"-At Least, You Are
  • Chapter 8. "We Are Americans"
  • Chapter 9. American Realism: Life, Thought, and Art
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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