At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York's Lower East Side, 1880-1920,...Weinfeld, DavidUniversity of Nebraska PressShofar
“Old” Immigrants vs. “New” Immigrants “Old” Immigrants (Prior to 1890) = Northern and Western Europe –Britain –Ireland –Germany –France “New Immigrants” (After 1890) = Southern and Eastern Europe –Italy –Poland –Russia –Slavic Peoples (Former Yugoslavia: Croatia, Bosnia, Macedoni...
Between 1880 and 1920, an estimated 4 million Italian immigrants entered the United States. Many passed through the cramped processing center at Ellis Island just outside New York City;Ellis Islandwould become a symbol of immigration during these decades. This generation of Italian immigrants hailed ...
2001. "The Political Incorporation of Immigrants, Then and Now," In Gary Gerstle and John Mollenkopf, Eds., E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Incorporation, New York: Russell Sage Foundation... G Gerstle,J Mollenkopf 被引量: 22发表: 2001年 The Immigrant Scen...
39.The motivation of the earliest immigrants to theNew Worldwas political, religious and economic. 40.The so-called“New Immigrants”refers to the immigrants from northern and western Europe, who came to theUnited Statesbetween1880 and 1920. 41.Structurally speaking, the Democrats have become a ...
Ellis Island: Registry RoomImmigrants in the Registry Room at Ellis Island, Upper New York Bay, c. 1902–13. The arrival of “new” immigrants from eastern and southern Europe after 1880 again changed Manhattan. The Irish and Germans, who by then held a vast proportion of political and econ...
although the Chinese settled in smaller numbers between theGold Rushin 1849 and theChinese Exclusion Actin 1882.Italians began arriving in large numbersbetween 1880 and the 1920s, while the turn of the 20th century saw the arrival of Jewish people from Eastern Europe. These immigrants were often ...
German and Irish immigrants arrived in New Orleans in large numbers in the 1840s. By 1850 the city’s total population had swelled to 116,375. New Orleans, however, had not learned tocopewith the health hazards of its mushrooming growth: drinking water came from the river or cisterns; no...
The daughter of Polish immigrants, Molly Picon (1898-1992) was born Małka Opiekun in New York City on Feb. 28, 1898, and became of a star of Yiddish theatre and film before moving to English language productions in the 1930s. Writing in “The Talk of the Town,” James Thurber descri...
For the past 400 years, New York has been the primary port of arrival for many immigrants seeking a new life in America. During the 1600s, many immigrants came from the Netherlands, England, France, and Belgium. The 1700s witnessed a continued influx of people from England along with new...