Free eBooks The Golden Land: The Story Of Jewish Immigration To America: An Interactive History With Removable Documents And Artifacts Available To Downloads
The Golden Land is a museum-in-a-book that devotes a double-page spread--complete with removable letters, documents, and personal effects--to each of the successive waves of Jewish immigration to America, from the Germans and Eastern Europeans in the 19th and early 20th centuries to the refugees from the Nazis in the 1930s and ’40s to the Soviet Jews in the 1970s and '80s.America was the first nation where Jews were regarded as citizens from the very beginning, and The Golden Land reveals how they converted opportunity to success in fields from commerce, medicine, and science to movies, music, and literature.The book includes facsimiles of George Washington’s letter to a community of Jews in Rhode Island, Emma Lazarus’s poem that was later inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, Irving Berlin’s handwritten lyrics for “God Bless America,” a quiz challenging readers to guess the original names of American-Jewish show-business celebrities, and plenty of other materials to give readers a real feel for how America changed the Jews and how the Jews changed America.
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Harmony; Book and Access edition (August 27, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0609609041
ISBN-13: 978-0609609040
Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 0.6 x 10.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #1,340,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #134 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Sociology > Race Relations > General #2017 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Emigration & Immigration #4609 in Books > History > World > Jewish
Joseph Telushkin is an ecumenically minded progressive sort of Orthodox rabbi, probably best known for his giant book on Jewish Literacy.This book is just 32 over-sized pages, but is PACKED with amazing photos, removable reproductions of fliers and ship passage tickets, various artifacts, etc. He gives a museum-like experience to the reader. You get as good of a taste of the turn of the century Jewish immigrant experience as any such book could offer.Wonderful book.
Excellent book The inserts are facsimiles of actual documents which contributes to the authenticity of the history. I think it gives some real insight and is a good book for discussion with family and friends. The Golden Land: The Story of Jewish Immigration to America: An Interactive History With Removable Documents and Artifacts
Very compelling book on Jewish immigration to America, with some interesting surprises.Would like others like it, especially abouthow jews lived in tenements and did business.
This book is very good for educating students about American Immigrants and American Jewish immigrants.
outstanding children's book
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