The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City 1880-1915 - Softcover

Kessner, Thomas

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9780195021615: The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City 1880-1915

Synopsis

A comparative study of the upward mobility and the changing residential patterns of Italian and Jewish immigrants and the paths each took toward Americanization during their first twenty-five years in New York City

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For the past two decades American scholars have been engaged in an intense examination of social mobility in American life. At the profoundest level, these studies examine the general notion that American society has been historically an open system which offered great opportunity for advancement to its poor and newcomers.

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