Discusses the reasons for the immigration of Eastern Europeans to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and describes the hards

In 1942, YIVO held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme “Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America

Describes the people who immigrated to the United States from 1840 to 1930, who they were and why they came.

"Zahra handles this immensely complicated and multidimensional history with remarkable clarity and feeling." —Robert Levgold, Foreign Affairs Between 1846 and

Discusses the reasons for the immigration of Eastern Europeans to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and describes the hards