"The Rest of Us" The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews

Birmingham, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0316096474 / ISBN 13: 9780316096478

Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Toronto, 1984

About this Item

Stephen Birmingham's follow-up to "Our Crowd" and The Grandees (collective biographies of America's German-Jewish and Sephardic elites) this time covers the mass of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. More of a social history than a collective biography, the author does illustrate his points with the stories of famous Jewish immigrants, such as Samuel Goldwyn, Meyer Lansky, Samuel Bronfman, Helena Rubenstein, and others. DJ in Brodart cover.

Seller Inventory # 653

Bibliographic Details

• Title: "The Rest of Us" The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Toronto
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316096474
• ISBN 13: 9780316096478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • United States
  • History
  • Judaica

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Synopsis

Traces the lives of the many Jewish immigrants who escaped the pogroms of Eastern Europe between the years 1882 and 1915 and stayed to prosper in the New World

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