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Author Cassedy, Steven

Title To the other shore : the Russian Jewish intellectuals who came to America / Steven Cassedy
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 197 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover ; Contents; Part 1; 1. ""We Were Not Jews"": Being Russian
Summary To the Other Shore tells the story of a small but influential group of Jewish intellectuals who immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire between 1881 and the early 1920s--the era of ""mass immigration."" This pioneer group of Jewish intellectuals, many of whom were raised in Orthodox homes, abandoned their Jewish identity, absorbed the radical political theories circulating in nineteenth-century Russia, and brought those theories with them to America. When they became leaders in the labor movement in the United States and wrote for the Yiddish, Russian, and English-lan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-188) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Jewish radicals -- United States
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States
Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life
Jews, Russian -- United States -- Intellectual life
Jewish radicals -- Russia
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Russia
Jews -- Russia -- Intellectual life
15.85 history of America.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations
Jewish radicals
Jews -- Cultural assimilation
Jews -- Intellectual life
Jews, Russian -- Intellectual life
Intellektueller
Juden
Sozialist
Auswanderung
Einwanderung
Joden.
Russen.
Intellectuelen.
Radicalisme.
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
Russia -- Ethnic relations
Subject Russia
United States
Russland
USA
Sowjetunion
Juden.
Form Electronic book
Author Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
LC no. 96044604
ISBN 9781400864553
1400864550