Welcome To America
A walk through the old Jewish Lower East Side of New York City recalls the era when that battered, close-packed quarter was a high-pressure machine for the manufacture of AmericansMarvin GelfandApril...
View ArticleThe Tenement Museum
On Manhattan’s Lower East Side you can visit a haunting re-creation of a life that was at once harder and better than we rememberDara HornApril 2000For many immigrants, moving to a new country is in...
View ArticleThe Immigrant Experience
Kevin BakerNovember/December 2004In a nation of immigrants, picking 10 books about the immigrant experience is no easy task. One could plausibly argue that any book about post-Columbian America...
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