[PDF.51xt] Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States

Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States

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 | #3030481 in Books |  1995-02-24 |  1995-01-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.55 x1.07 x6.39l,1.19 | File type: PDF | 321 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Special Sorrows|By Alice F|This book focuses on the immigration period around the turn of the last century. The first few chapters on how life in USA chronnicled the emigrants' views; that is, the reasons for emigration and the hope the US policy would support their dreams of creating (Jews) or reclaiming (Irish an Poles) a homeland. This part was somewhat tedious reading becau| |A scholarly study of the real roots of what Jacobson calls 'America's largely assimilated but ultimately unmeltable ethnics.' It's a startling point of view for readers who are accustomed to the self-congratulatory myth of America as a beacon of liberty to whi

Conventional wisdom would have us believe that every immigrant to the United States "became American," by choice and with deliberate speed. Yet, as Special Sorrows shows us, this is simply untrue. In this compelling revisionist study, Matthew Frye Jacobson reveals tenacious attachments to the Old World and explores the significance of homeland politics for Irish, Polish, and Jewish immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century.

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States   |  Matthew Frye Jacobson. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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